Thanks for the neat story about your neopagan sweetie.
If you ever see her again, I have another question for her:
If sound doesn’t travel in a vacuum, why do vacuum cleaners make so much noise?
Seriously, I used to teach graduate education courses and went home one night appalled when my students expressed surprise that there are no sounds in outer space because it’s a vacuum out there.
My son once boasted to one of his high school teachers that I had invented a new carbon dioxide scrubber for the Space Station. She asked why a carbon dioxide scrubber was needed. My son replied that CO2 builds up in the Station from humans exhaling the gas.
She asked, “Why don’t they just open a window?”
This is not a joke. She was a math teacher.
I don't even need to ask, to tell you what she would say ... the Mother is screaming, due to the sheer unnaturalness of man's cruelty to nature.
My daughter is a physics major and runs into the same sort of thing among the other physics majors. She just cannot believe what some of them DON’T know about physics.
Partially right. Grins:
Astronomers have detected the deepest note ever generated in the cosmos, a B-flat flying through space like a ripple on an invisible pond. No human will actually hear the note, because it is 57 octaves below the keys in the middle of a piano.