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Jessica Belt's avatar

Thanks for sharing! So cool

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Chris Marcon's avatar

I'm interested in the area of sound, the relationship of musical tonality , modes and melodies, and their reactivity in terms of thought & emotions. As sound is a medium for communication , how is it that music, without words , evokes such profound response . It might be more than just physiological imo

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Kerry Alan Snyder's avatar

This is a fascinating proposal. Having just been exposed to Veda Austin’s profound recent work with the autists on the nature of water, I wonder what insight might they offer to the nature of sound?

Also, was this article written by a human?

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Eileen McKusick's avatar

This article was written with the assistance of Chatgpt

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Horius Parry's avatar

I didn't find any depictions of acoustic waves as transverse waves. More likely you are misinterpreting the displacement vector as a spatial vector. The peaks and troughs are wave 'amplitude' where amplitude means magnitude of either pressure or displacement.

I imagined for years that photons were spatially transverse waves but they aren't. The illustrations represent field vectors i.e. oscillations in field strength and direction. According to theory, photons actually have zero width, height or even length. Apparent length is actually along the time axis.

Classical physics (kinetic theory of gases) represents a gas as a bunch of particles whizzing around at the speed of sound and some say they hardly interact with each other at all but only occasionally bounce of each other.

If there is no interaction then how can a wave propagate through this 'medium' (particularly at the speed of sound!). It clearly can't and so this theory is busted but physicists like to keep quiet about it.

Try to imagine how a whirlwind might form if none of the molecules interact with each other. What forces make the atoms go in a spiral if no mechanical collisions are present?

I outline Meyl's structure of a gas here - a medium consisting of electromagnetic vortices: https://library-of-atlantis.com/2025/01/30/do-we-breathe-oxygen/

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