> relativity and luminiferous aether We may get a bit off-topic, but I believe the aether was an unfortunate casualty of Einstein's work. First of all Einstein

> relativity and luminiferous aether We may get a bit off-topic, but I believe the aether was an unfortunate casualty of Einstein's work. First of all Einstein didn't disprove the aether, he just made it unnecessary. But relativity makes lots of things unnecessary at this macro level, like the quantum mechanics it contradicted later on. I think relativity is extremely valuable. But there's no such thing as a wave of nothing. And we'll eventually come back to that at some point. Knowledge sometimes swings from one end to another like a pendulum, as long as we advance overall I'm good. I'm not sure that throat mirroring is advancing our knowledge on why some sounds are terrible to us. > you'd see that they focus on this because "most trigger sounds are generated by orofacial movements". Assuming they're correct But that's not even close to correct by mere observation. Not to mention that your orofacial movements would bother no one if you eat with your mouth closed. Am I being crazy here? The feeling of cringe and disgust is not just the fact someone is eating around us. We eat together socially with great pleasure. But if you step into something gooey, and as you remove your shoe, you hear the resulting sounds, it's instantly disgusting. Was my throat mirroring your foot? I mean, come on :)