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Error being blown out of your mouth is similar to DC ( direct current ) and that it's a continuous wave of air with frequency zero. While speaking is like AC ( alternating current), a longitudinal wave that moves back and forth at a variety of frequencies.

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[–] ExchangeInteraction 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would argue that the points you make strengthen my analogy, because all of them can also be said of DC electrical current.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

because all of them can also be said of DC electrical current.

I mean I can't and wouldn't force you to think a certain way, but that premise is false, and I thought I demonstrated as such in the previous comment.

What I can add is that actual "DC current", e.g. that delivered by a physical, nearly-constant current source that turned on at some point in time and ostensibly will be turned off before the heat death of the universe, does have an AC component! At the very least, it will turn on and off, which is a variation in time. When we design circuits for "DC current" (or voltage), we make the assumption that the AC component is too small to be considered, and thus we just pretend that we have an ideal DC current.

So when we talk about DC current with any kind of precision, we really mean the constant part of the current waveform equal to the average value of the signal. Blowing as a set of related signals in all it's media are not constant signals. A recording would demonstrate this, and the requirement for sound to have a nonzero frequency also rules out the possibility for a DC sound.

Now I know that analogies are loose comparisons, and if your analogy aids your understanding then more power to you, but I genuinely cannot find any way that they are analogous.

[–] ExchangeInteraction 2 points 1 year ago

I understand, it seems we don't agree but thank you for participating in the discussion.