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Default 04-30-2008, 02:02 PM

Sound: physical vibration of air, vibrates ear drum, sent to brain.

We can convert light to sound by manipulating light and matter interaction. For example we can set a photoreceptor to transmit an electric impulse which then causes a speaker to produce sound, hence alarms, but the speed of sound will still limit our perception of event occurrence.

If we go back to our basic analogy in this thread; person A, person B and the observer C, we can see an understanding to sense limitation.

Since C can only detect sound, we can give A and B a light emitting device and C can be fitted with a light-sound converter earpiece. Given the speed of light, the information reaching C as to when A and B fired can now be correctly (with some error) interpreted...because B signal will reach C some nanoseconds after firing instead of the 30 seconds. The error will surface from the speed of light, conversion mechanism inherent in the device's operation/performance method, and efficiency.


If A waits 10 seconds to fire after B had fired, C will be able to know that event A actually happened after event B, of which the conversion of light to sound meant a somewhat improvement on the event chronology perception.

When we come back to reality, we will need to convert an information carrier that travels faster than light to interact with let's say matter in order to produce one of these five senses' signals, which then would lead to perception of events better and close to accuracy.

For example, if such a carrier is emitted from a star one billion light years away, but it only takes it one second to reach the earth's surface, we could infer what the star is like as at now by converting the carrier to let's say light energy.

So, in a way, we will be able to know the events that are one billion light years away today (the events in that star relative to our knowledge) due to our ability to expand our sense of light reception, perception and interpretation.

But what new thing can we *know*? Nothing. Nothing because our observer C can only hear sound and interprete events according to time of arrival. The observer cannot in any way see the firing action, to know that it is light, to know how light looks like, to know how in reality the guns, person A and person B actually look like.

What can the observer intuitionalise? Let's say gun A emits red light which C's earpiece converts to be a bass, while B emits green light which the earpiece converts to a treble, what C can infer is that A and B are different events at different times, but C will never know what EXACT events they are.

C can say that since A is a bass, it is coming from a nearby object (planet, star, etc), and since B is a treble, it must be from a far away object, etc which interpretation is misconceived by his way of logical deduction and experimentation.



What C can know is limited by his senses of perception, and there is nothing that he can do about it.
 


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