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Re:Scientists say you can cancel the noise but keep your win... by ed on Saturday July 11, 2020 @02:38PM (#23804551)
Sound decays exponentially as a function of distance, so speakers close to you don't need to be loud. Also most speakers are also fairly directional, so i'd expect any extra energy to be absorbed by the room (as heat).

Edit: more importantly these are destructive waves, so if anything you’d actually reduce reflections back out into the world.

Re:Scientists say you can cancel the noise but keep your win... by hwillis on Saturday July 11, 2020 @04:21PM (#23805571)
quadratically (proportional to x^2, the surface of an expanding sphere) as opposed to cubically (x^3, the volume of an expanding sphere) or exponentially (2^x, objects that multiply over time)
Re:Scientists say you can cancel the noise but keep your win... by ed on Saturday July 11, 2020 @05:07PM (#23805996)
ah yeah, thanks!
Re:Scientists say you can cancel the noise but keep your win... by Robotbeat on Saturday July 11, 2020 @03:16PM (#23804918)
Not exactly exponentially.
Re:Scientists say you can cancel the noise but keep your win... by vages on Saturday July 11, 2020 @03:19PM (#23804956)
Yes, it's not exponential. The sound level is inversely proportional to the square of the distance.
Re:Scientists say you can cancel the noise but keep your win... by gmantg on Saturday July 11, 2020 @03:24PM (#23805013)
This is 1/d^2. Exponential would be 1/2^d.
Re:Scientists say you can cancel the noise but keep your win... by anticensor on Saturday July 11, 2020 @03:48PM (#23805276)
It is actually between the two because sound is a material wave and air has friction.
Re:Scientists say you can cancel the noise but keep your win... by hwillis on Saturday July 11, 2020 @04:19PM (#23805546)