“If the world were completely silent and I said something, could someone in China hear me?”
Kids have some good questions. I took my boy to a garden where I often go on weekends to think and reflect. A time for mental detox. My boy was playing with my phone while I was tried to focus and think. (It didn't work out too well, but I tried, at least.)
The place was quiet. Few people and cars passing by quietly. Birds chirping as they do in nature. And I crossed my legs, was looking at the sky and environs. My boy asked me what I was thinking about. Life, I responded. Well, I'm just a boy; I don't have to think about the things you think about.
Only after he contemplated the solitude of the place did he ask the subject question. I said I didn't know and enquired what he thought about it. He said, “No. The distance is too long.”
Though he's correct. But, as a thought experiment, contemplate the possibility: imagine the Earth was completely quiet, could we hear each other from anywhere if we managed to disrupt the peace for a second?
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