Politics and Religion
Don't be too quick to answer, because as it turns out the answer might be "no". Sound, as we understand it, has physical properties, but unless there is a conscious mind around to interpret those properties, what we perceive as sound may not exist.
This idea has caused a considerable amount of frustration among physcists for the last several decades, and was only complicated with a variation on what's called Young's experiment, or the Double-slit experiment.
In this variation, a laser projector capable to producing single particles of light is sent through 2 slits, where the particle finally lands on a background that is discolored from the particle. This experiment proved the dual properties of light as a particle and a wave, but yet could not be both at the same time. The stranger aspect of this experiment, is that the impressions the laser produced groupings of 3 points while there were only 2 slits.
When trying to figure out why this was happening, scientists put particle detectors next to the slits, only to find that the 3 points impressions ceased. It seems, that observation affects reality.
The stranger aspect of this experiment is that it demonstrated that subatomic particles can behave very strangely. That within them, small wormholes can develop for a fraction of a second, and it's possible for one particle to exist in two places at the same time.
Physicist Leonard Susskind theorized that part of the answer to this is that gravity has entropathic properties (the principle that in nature all things are breaking down), and that what we view in the universe may not be what the universe really is. That rather we live in a much smaller place, and the universe has holographic properties. That all existence is actually 2-dimensional, with 3 dimensional information coming back to us from the edge of the universe.
To understand this, it helps to know that gravatational fields have a negative effect on the space time continuum. For instance, time passes more slowly on earth than it does in a space vacuum. The difference is minute, but the greater the degree of gravity, the greater the effect. For instance, if you could orbit around the black hole that's at the center of the Milky Way for 5 years, when you returned to earth, 10 years would have passed.
Therefore, just as all objects in the universe have an effect on space time, and it's proposed that time is produced as a side effect of the activities of subatomic particles, human observation would also have an effect on the physcial property of everything we experience.
Meaning, of course, that our own consciousness creates the reality we observe. And since a large number of conscious human beings use their consciousness to believe in a deity they call God, then it means that God does indeed exist!!!
..................but keep in mind, it's still just a silly dumbassed idea in your head. 
-- Modified on 11/20/2011 9:25:58 PM