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Have we ever heard true silence? Is it  even possible? I have spent all day thinking about it and i don't think that we ever can truly achieve silence. There is always something we can hear, and I am not talking about noise pollution or whatever that is all about. I mean even in the middle of the forest, billion of years ago, at the dead of night, with nothing living around, there is noise. There has to be, i just don't think that it is possible to achieve absolute silence for an extended period of time. Just like, in chemistry trying to reach absolute zero, we can try but we will never completley reach it. For one, we would never be able do design a device able to measure that small of an amount of sound because we do not know how small the smallest possible measurement of sound is. Secondly, we wouldn't be able to discern how much area the silence would cover. 

I looked up the definition of silence and, what i found was not satisfying at all. It was simply, "The absence of sound". That's all, it doesn't define it as anything more than the absence of something. But whenever you search another "absolute zero' concept, like death, it is the state of being dead. It is a state of being something, or a state of something. I do not think that it is adequately characterized when just referred to as the absence of something else. I think that silence should be a state of being, a state of no sound or movement, of course unattainable. Or maybe that is the difference. Maybe, if we are able to experience something, like death than we can describe it as a state of being something that we have a reference for. Maybe, the only way that we know how to define something is by comparing it to something that we know exits. That makes sense, thataway, if we don't understand something, we can just automatically label it as the absence of something else, regardless of if we know if that is possible or not.But i think that, since silence is the absence of sound, and that can never be knowingly achieved by us, we shouldn't use the word incorrectly. We should at least consider what we mean before we say that something was silent or that they heard nothing but silence(which is another contradiction of the definition of the word!)......