/sci/ - Science & Math

>>14762074
>Species doesn't have any good definitions. You can't perfectly categorise organisms into categories, every organism has a different genetic code, and a universal phylogenetic tree could extend down to the individual organism.
Continuum fallacy.
The continuum fallacy is the fallacy of assuming that the existence of a continuum of possible states between two things means that said things are not different. It is a form of equivocation: treating as equivalent two things that should not be treated as such.
Consider the electromagnetic spectrum.
This spectrum is perfectly continuous, but nonetheless some divisions are more useful and internally similar than others.
Furthermore, when picking out some wavelengths and placing them next to one another (such as the wavelengths corresponding to the colors green, yellow, and red in a traffic light), there is no longer a continuous change but discrete changes.
Your arguments against speciation can be exploded in the same fashion.

Question about the nature of sound and light.

Now I know both are waveforms, but they differ vastly in the way they operate.

But in either case the human eyes and ears have a limited range.

That is, Audio frequencies between .2 and 20 kHZ is what we percive as Sound

while

EM frequencies between 400 and 789 THz are what we percive as sound.

Now my question is, given an EM freqnecy set within our audible range, could we hear it? And vice versa.

That is , say for example, an EM Frequency of 3 kHZ, in the ULF band of the spectrum, would we be able to hear that as an 8th octave or the like?

>>5209003

Did you run out of meds today or something?

I didn't know they had internet at the mental institutions.

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