Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 2 years ago, 3 hours later, 8 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,240,656
A large enough collision in the vacuum of space could create strong enough gravitational waves that, when passing your ear drums, stretch and compress them in a way not unlike normal sound waves.
So, no, I don't agree that it'd be impossible to hear in space. Likely? No. Or at least you'd very unlikely survive to tell aobut it, being so close to whatever it was that created such strong waves.
Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU replied with this 2 years ago, 7 minutes later, 8 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,240,662
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This is only true if we go back to the luminiferous aether theory of space, which I think we are long overdue for. The so-called Mickelson Morley "experiment" was a scam by Big Light to hide the true nature of the universe.
Anonymous E replied with this 2 years ago, 1 hour later, 10 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,240,667
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Gravitational waves can be localized in both space and time, not entirely unlike electromagnetic radiation.
There's actually quite a lot of so-called vacuum solutions to Einstein's field equation. Blackholes without mass. Gravitional waves propagating in a wide variety of ways (also without the need for a massive source).
Anonymous E replied with this 2 years ago, 5 minutes later, 10 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,240,672
@1,240,662 (Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU)
You joke, but there's something called the Lorentz ether theory, which asserts there is a preferred frame of reference (a fixed "aether"). Believe it or not, this is an entirely consistent way of seeing special relativity:
> Today Lorentz Ether Theory (LET) is often treated as some sort of "Lorentzian" or "neo-Lorentzian" interpretation of special relativity.[1] The introduction of length contraction and time dilation for all phenomena in a "preferred" frame of reference, which plays the role of Lorentz's immobile aether, leads to the complete Lorentz transformation (see the Robertson–Mansouri–Sexl test theory as an example), so Lorentz covariance doesn't provide any experimentally verifiable distinctions between LET and SR.
This is kind of like the question about whether or not the universe is actually deterministic or not. Pilot wave theory provides an entirely deterministic view of quantum mechanics. However, just like LET and SR above, it doesn't provide any distinguishable predictions different than the probabilistic view of quantum mechanics. For all practical purposes, they're exactly the same theory.
A lot of people shy away from these discussions because in a way it's stepping a bit outside of the realm of science. However, ironically, it's often the same people that insist on one interpretation or another (typically these are the loudest proponents of seeing probabilistic QM as the end all be all, and SR similarly). But there's no reason for them to hold such strong views (or really, any view on the subject).
We simply don't know if the universe is deterministic or not. We simply don't know if there's a preferred reference frame or not (and therefore if light is actually constant in speed or if we're just being fooled through the balance of time dilation/length contraction). It's just a matter of what finds most convenient to conceptualize the world as. ANyone who implies these issues are settled doesn't actually understand what's at stake and what is actually known. At best, one could claim these issues are settled only insofar as them permanently remaining not only unsettled but unsettlable and therefore a waste of time to have any view on one way or another.
Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 2 years ago, 37 minutes later, 10 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,240,678
Terrence McKenna was all over this back in the 1990s. His brother used shrooms in the Amazon to tune into a sound frequency that resonated on the same hertz scale as the biological frequency of the mushroom to create what he called an 'event'. It's all detailed in McKenna's book, including his brother's detailed description of how it works. His brother nearly went mad from the experiment and McKenna claimed the event was so profound that he never fully emerged from the resulting trip.