Reconciliation IS Needed
Yes, as far as I am concerned, this thread and that thread are identical in nature. You are trying to make a car with square wheels and you are so in love with the idea of square wheels that you can't see the VERY simple and fundamental reasons why it won't work. In your attempts to come up with a solution, you are doing nothing more than adding lots of layers on top of the fundamental problem to make it less obvious when thinking about it.
It's different. Jasonbe is obviously (and overtly)
NOT looking for the answer (or, indeed,
ANY answer). He says it best, himself:
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Quote:
Originally Posted by crashsite
Ah! And, your reasons for avoiding learning any electrical theory or computer programming or doing any experimentation would be....?
Response:
I don't have any reasons. I'm just not doing it on this site as much as I'd like to.
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Since everybody seems to be enamored with waves as the way to explain sound propagation (your little thumb link does it again as does your
Jello analogy), I figure that
must be the way it works. But, I think about it and just can't reconcile the thermal effect with waves and the notion of the interchange of potential and kinetic energy. I just can't make it work. I'm told that it's well understood and I see the thermal effect mentioned in descriptions but, not explained (at least in a way that makes sense to me). It's addressed in the formulas and the terms are there to make the resulting quantative result come out right but, that only means that the formulas take it into consideration.
I suppose I could just shrug my shoulders and submit but...that's just not my nature.
It's like word processors. From the first time I ever used a word processor, I knew it wasn't being done "right". The codes of, Wordstar (and others of the era) were awkward. WordPerfect for DOS was better but, was still fraught with codes and WordPerfect for Windows was better but, still failed to give the "true" writing experience. Microsoft's Word is even better and more natural but, damnit...it
still isn't close to being, "right". So, we muck along, adapting our methodology to its whims. That's the way I feel about sound propagation. It doesn't feel, "right". It
feels like it's been fudged into a workable model.
But, with word processors, I don't really have a problem "submitting" to the whims of the programmers that wrote the app. That's because I realize that it's not real. It's merely a conceptual version of what the programmers thought would be a good way to do it within the scope of the existing computer technology. But, sound propagation
is real and it needs to feel like the real answer.