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<blockquote data-quote="ECMO3" data-source="post: 8580360" data-attributes="member: 7030563">The the duration being instantaneous does not mean they can't be temporarily separate events and there is no reason to assume they aren'tAll four things are essentially a true impulse with no time extent (putting aside for a moment that sound can't be temporarily instantaneous).&nbsp; They can go one after another without being spatially separated in time because the time for each individual element is 0.&nbsp; Looking at this in the frequency domain; the sequence has infinite bandwidth so the subcomponents can be separate and distinct.To put it another way, instead of looking at 0 time as the floor, look at it as the ceiling - For the three events to be temporarily distinct (disappear, boom, reappear) the sum of the individual times associated with each individual event plus the time between events can equal but not exceed the total time for the entire sequence.&nbsp; In this case each event takes 0 time, the time between them is 0 and the entire sequence together takes 0.&nbsp; So from a theoretical point of view they can happen in a certain order and still all happen simultaneously because there is no extent in the time domain for any of the events, or the sum, and the sum is not larger than the entire sequence.IRL there is no way to actually measure 0 time. The fastest clocks in the world can't measure time increments below 1E-20 seconds and with that level of precision you will have different measurements for different observers, but if we assume that this actually takes zero time, then there is no reason they can't occur one after another.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ECMO3, post: 8580360, member: 7030563"] The the duration being instantaneous does not mean they can't be temporarily separate events and there is no reason to assume they aren't All four things are essentially a true impulse with no time extent (putting aside for a moment that sound can't be temporarily instantaneous). They can go one after another without being spatially separated in time because the time for each individual element is 0. Looking at this in the frequency domain; the sequence has infinite bandwidth so the subcomponents can be separate and distinct. To put it another way, instead of looking at 0 time as the floor, look at it as the ceiling - For the three events to be temporarily distinct (disappear, boom, reappear) the sum of the individual times associated with each individual event plus the time between events can equal but not exceed the total time for the entire sequence. In this case each event takes 0 time, the time between them is 0 and the entire sequence together takes 0. So from a theoretical point of view they can happen in a certain order and still all happen simultaneously because there is no extent in the time domain for any of the events, or the sum, and the sum is not larger than the entire sequence. IRL there is no way to actually measure 0 time. The fastest clocks in the world can't measure time increments below 1E-20 seconds and with that level of precision you will have different measurements for different observers, but if we assume that this actually takes zero time, then there is no reason they can't occur one after another. [/QUOTE]

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