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And pedantry or no pedantry, the claim that the sound we hear is caused by the dissipation of pressure waves is a hypothesis and not a theory worthy of the name.

*Get out of here !? :)

I haven't looked it up (out of laziness) but surely the idea that sound propagates though a medium is well established as a theory and not still languishing as a hypothesis !! Surely !*

I thought I hadn't gone completely mad, the notion of sound propogating through a medium is covered by the wave theory of sound - which is of course a theory not a hypothesis.