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The Sounds of Silence - Page 3

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Jan 7, 1999

Rumination and Discussion

Here's a couple of old ones for you to ponder:

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?
What IS the sound of one hand clapping, anyway?

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3. Jan 10, 1999 4:50 AM
The "sound" is Metaphysical, it's a reference to a person's state of awareness (just thought you'd like to know)

-- posted by The_moose

2. Jan 9, 1999 3:05 PM
Hey, Dan,
I think it sounds like "whoosh" "whoosh" but I still can't "hear" it, so maybe if I did it faster I could raise the "frequency"?...okay, wrong frequency!

I figure somebody out there's go ...

-- posted by lbondx

1. Jan 7, 1999 9:08 AM
The sound of one hand clapping would be, I believe, a faint and ELFin sound (Extremely Low Frequency), something like 1.3 to 1.7 Hertz. (Hertz? Not very much.) Who could hear that? Maybe King Kong ...

-- posted by Dan_Ellsworth

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