Annoyance comments on Off-Topic Discussion Thread: April 2009 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: CronoDAS 07 April 2009 08:08:51PM 1 point [-]

Hey, did you know that a duck's quack doesn't echo?

I strongly suspect that's an urban legend, and I think I remember reading a debunking somewhere.

Comment author: Annoyance 07 April 2009 08:12:33PM 1 point [-]

Yes, CronoDAS, it's a modern myth. Physicists haven't missed an obvious way in which their understanding fails to predict the world.

Well, at least not involving that particular obvious way.