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In Reply to: RE: such an odd dichotomy posted by Analog Scott on March 18, 2024 at 13:14:42
...are better than they were in the 70s. And in the 70s, they were better than they were in the 60s, 50s, and so on.
What makes you think we're done with finding new things to measures and ways to do it?
Plenty of examples in the history of science, engineering, medicine and the like that show there is always more to learn.
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"What makes you think we're done with finding new things to measures and ways to do it?"
"New things?" We're talking about air vibrations in our ears. What we hear is not *that* complicated. The "alleged" unmeasurable things we supposedly hear have been thoroughly addressed and explained. We don't need to look for alternate explanations unless we find some new evidence that suggests we do.
Ya got five fingers on each hand. How many times do you need to recount them to know it's five?
We don't need to looks for new physics to explain audiophiles who fail to accept psychoacoustics and insist there are unknown physics in play
Now finding other ways to measure things? Yeah that can happen. But there is no reason, no scientifically legitimate reason to think there are vibrations in the air that we can hear but can not measure. The fact that we can measure so many sounds that can not be heard should be a big indicator of the relative sensitivities of our ears vs our measurements.
"Plenty of examples in the history of science, engineering, medicine and the like that show there is always more to learn."
And plenty more examples of known science having things covered on particular topics. We are talking about sound, vibrations in the air with a specific frequency range and amplitude. Newtonian physics has the sound part covered.
> > ""New things?" We're talking about air vibrations in our ears. What we hear is not *that* complicated. The "alleged" unmeasurable things we supposedly hear have been thoroughly addressed and explained. We don't need to look for alternate explanations unless we find some new evidence that suggests we do. "
With that logic we knew everything we needed to know 60 or more years ago.
Guess we can agree to disagree.
When it comes to the nature of sound yeah pretty much. When it comes to measuring sound, no, we did not have the technology to measure sound as accurately or with the same detail as we do now.
We can measure every aspect of sound entering our ears to levels that exceed the thresholds of human hearing.
How we process and store sound in our brains is still very much an on going series of investigations. There seems to be this weird all or nothing logical fallacy that comes with the science on human thresholds of hearing. And measuring sound.
So -- we have nothing left to learn that we don't already know.
As noted, guess we agree to disagree.
You are disagreeing with a burning straw man.
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