OT: Black Hole Bass Note

[Carl Meyer]

Jim! If a man speaks in the forest and there is no women to hear him, is he
still wrong???

Carl Meyer Ptg assoc
Santa Clara, Ca.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <JIMRPT@aol.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 6:46 AM
Subject: Re: OT: Black Hole Bass Note


>
> In a message dated 10/09/03 9:19:03 AM, Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no
writes:
>
> << Sheeeshhhh... Somebody just HAD to THINK a bit on this one .... spoils
> all the fun :):)
>  >>
>
> <<<<I'm confused.  Sound is created by a disturbance in the AIR which
> > emanates from the source and is detected by our ears, or a microphone,
> > etc.  Since there is NO AIR in space, how does this 'sound wave' get
> > to earth, and thus be detected by NASA?
> >
> > Tom Sivak>>>>
>
> Nope, wrong ittle bitty one!! :-) Tom's comments are based on flawed
factual
> thingees..............
> First off Chandra isn't on "earth" it is in space...having been deposited
> there on a shuttle flight and then repositioned to a much higher
orbit/trajectory.
>  Second "sound" is created by a vibration traveling through a substance,
not
> needfully air. This vibration is called a "sound wave". "Sound waves"
(sic)
> can be in inaudible as well as audible ranges.
>  So if a tree falls in the forest and there is no one to hear it there is
no
> sound per-se but "sound waves" are created........therefore simply because
we
> have never heard a "Black Hole" before simply means that we haven't heard
it
> and 'not' that there have been no sound waves created by the danged
thingee. :-)
>  Third The context of "hearing" used is in the x-ray range and not the
> audible spectrum....aka deteced by x-ray and not "heard by ears.
> My thoughts
> Jolly Bondi (FL and Further North)
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