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Originally posted by fulllotusqigong
Chaotic dynamics’ sensitivity to initial conditions poses a problem for those who try to take advantage of it. Minor effects that are often ignored in conventional trajectory design, such as solar wind and atmospheric models, must be taken into account when using chaotic dynamics or else the trajectory can quickly diverge. “This stuff gets—gee, annoying isn’t the word,” Folta said, “but after running many, many simulations, trying to come up with the right trajectory, it does become annoying.” To grapple with all those effects, Folta and his Goddard colleagues have developed models that take all those possible perturbations into account in trajectory analysis. “Our models are the best we can possibly get to at this point,” he said. Those models include high-precision gravitational models for the Earth and Moon, solar radiation pressure, and the solar wind. “It’s even to the point where the software includes relativistic effects.”
Originally posted by ThoughtForms
how is this so. If the clock on your wall ticks forever, then time is infinate.
you tell me there's a wave, a moving force, force=energy, energy moving makes a 'wave'. You tell me its made on consciousness. But why is it called a 'pilot wave' where did that term come from and what does it mean???
Must we suppose that this periodic phenomenon occurs in the interior of energy packets? This is not at all necessary; the results of §1.3 will show that it is spread out over an extended space. Moreover, what must we understand by the interior of a parcel of energy? An electron is for us the archetype of isolated parcel of energy, which we believe, perhaps incorrectly, to know well; but, by received wisdom, the energy of an electron is spread over all space with a strong concentration in a very small region, but otherwise whose properties are very poorly known. That which makes an electron an atom of energy is not its small volume that it occupies in space, I repeat: it occupies all space, but the fact that it is undividable, that it constitutes a unit.
If, at a given moment in time a fixed observer considers the geometric location of the centre of mass of the various weights, he gets a cylindrical surface in a horizontal direction for which vertical slices parallel to the motion of the disk are sinusoids. This surface corresponds, in the case we envision, to our phase wave, for which, in accord with our general theorem, there is a surface moving with velocity c b parallel to the disk and having a frequency of vibration on the fixed abscissa equal to that of a proper oscillation of a spring multiplied by 1 1 b2. One sees finally with this example (which is our reason to pursue it) why a phase wave transports ‘phase’, but not energy.
To emphasise one last point: the rays of the wave at the instant t are the envelopes of the velocity of propagation, but these rays are not the trajectories of energy, which are rather their tangents at each point. This fact reminds us of certain conclusions from hydrodynamics where flow lines, envelops of velocity, are not particle trajectories if their form is invariant, in other words, if movement is constant.
One should not overlook that it is not a question regarding velocity of a phase wave, which is always above c , but of energy transport detectable experimentally.
For very high frequencies, p would always equal1 giving for isolated photons WIEN’s Law for black body radiation and the formula: b 1 m0c2 hn 2 for the energy transport velocity. For low frequencies, p is always very large, photons are found always in numerous ensembles allied with the same phase wave; black body radiation follows RAYLEIGH’s Law, and the transport velocity goes to c as n V 0. This hypothesis undermines the simplicity of the concept of “photon”, but this simply can not be maintained and still reconcile electrodynamics with discontinuous photoelectric phenomena. Introducing f p , it seems to me, reconciles photon population idiosyncrasies with classical wave notions. In any case, the true structure of radiant energy remains very mysterious.
Originally posted by ThoughtForms
that's science drew, and an extension of my own discussion of elements of the universe vs. the energy you are trying to understand/manipulate. and theres nothing chaotic about it, we're just ignorant of its order. There is no such thing as 'truly random'...
A chaotic circuit for truly random number generation
Truly random number generators based on non-autonomous continuous-time chaos
In the present paper we discuss a new phenomenon: the fact that unperturbed physical systems can produce truly random dynamics. Of course, one of the applications of this phenomenon is random number generation.
Originally posted by ThoughtForms
reply to post by fulllotusqigong
I have no need to watch your video. I did not ask the question. I don't care to hear some strangers explanation that the sounds are hoaxes, I know first hand some are not. I have many friends who have now heard them too. when something is as loud as thunder, and 'comes towards you' like the source is of 'earthquake sized' dimensions, but the earth does not shake, it is hard to call that an auditory hallucination.
-TF
P.S) now if you want to talk about 'artificial' sounds being broadcast in such a way as to trick a large amount of people spread across a large distance into thinking they're hearing things in their immediate vicinity that are actually very far away, and that in of itself an auditory hallucination.. then asides from that being a completely different ballgame all together, you might be onto something. At this point we don't know. I do know that the sounds are real in that they have been heard and there's been legitimate encounters with it including my own.edit on 27-2-2012 by ThoughtForms because: (no reason given)edit on 27-2-2012 by ThoughtForms because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by ThoughtForms
You keep jumping from the lego land of building blocks and quantum happenings, and relating that to music and qi gong. but the time-scale is different. the transfer rates are different. You cannot instantaneously think something into existence. it takes time and may not happen at all. on EVERY level the observer is many, your will not surpass others and probably wont. What applies to the smaller scale may not apply to the larger scale, and really, it bears very little influence on the larger scale as imposed by an individual.
When this molecule absorbs visible light, the electrons get enough energy to separate and become susceptible to external influences, including the earth’s magnetic field. If the magnetic field is inclined, it affects the two electrons differently, creating an imbalance that changes the chemical reaction that the molecule undergoes. Chemical pathways in the eye translate this difference into neurological impulses, ultimately creating an image of the magnetic field in the bird’s brain.
According to calculations that my colleagues and I have done, quantum effects persist in a bird’s eye for around 100 microseconds—which, in this context, is a long time.
In a quantum world, a particle does not just have to take one path at a time; it can take all of them simultaneously. The electromagnetic fields within plant cells can cause some of these paths to cancel one another and others to reinforce mutually, thereby reducing the chance the electron will take a wasteful detour and increasing the chance it will be steered straight to the reaction center. The entanglement would last only a fraction of a second and would involve molecules that have no more than about 100,000 atoms. Do any instances of larger and more persistent entanglement exist in nature? We do not know, but the question is exciting enough to stimulate an emerging discipline: quantum biology
Originally posted by ThoughtForms
frequency is not wrong drew you are. look at the scillia mechanism.
Our results suggest that the three ultrasound-detecting species have converged on small-scale functional modifications of the basilar papilla (BP), the high-frequency hearing organ in the frog inner ear. These modifications include: 1. reduced BP chamber volume, 2. reduced tectorial membrane mass, 3. reduced hair bundle length, and 4. reduced hair cell soma length. While none of these factors on its own could account for the US sensitivity of the inner ears of these species, the combination of these factors appears to extend their hearing bandwidth, and facilitate high-frequency/ultrasound detection. These modifications are also seen in the ears of O. chloronota, suggesting that this species is a candidate for high-frequency hearing sensitivity. These data form the foundation for future functional work probing the physiological bases of ultrasound detection by a non-mammalian ear.
We proposed brain ultrasonic demodulation as the means of place-mapping ultrasound on the first few millimeters of the basilar membrane. We present modeling and psychoacoustic data in support of this theory.
In the case of the deaf, a low-frequency cortical site for ultrasound was observed [6]. In contrast, this suggests an apical cochlear site or other noncochlear acoustic site that is activated in the presence of severe deafness. The implication is that different sites on the inner ear’s basilar membrane are activated, depending only on the proportion of hair cells present. In 1954, Deatherage et al. [7] were the first to warn of the potential damage (highfrequency hearing loss and tinnitus) of listening to very intense, head-coupled ultrasound; however, their studies resulted in two key observations. The pitch of the ultrasound corresponded to the highest audio frequency measured audiometrically by air conduction and the same ultrasonic tone could give rise to different pitch perception in each ear (i.e., diplacusis), if there was a hearing difference between ears. Taken together, these findings suggest the absence of a specific place of ultrasonic frequency mapping on the cochlea but a dynamic mechanism that is a function of remaining hearing or hair cells and intensity of the ultrasonic stimulation.
The dynamic aspect of ultrasonic pitch suggests that the ear may not be directly stimulated but rather that an intermediary structure may be involved. Three lines of evidence suggest that the resonance of the brain is critical for an audible ultrasonic experience. Support for a brain ultrasound demodulation theory stems from spherical models of brain and psychoacoustic metrics of masking audio frequencies by ultrasonic noise and by matching the pitch of audible ultrasound with conventional air conduction sound.
If the ultrasonic frequency does not determine the perceived pitch but rather the resonance of the brain, how is the reported pitch discrimination in the ultrasonic range possible [3,5], or is it absent [24–26]? Note in Figure 1 that a change in the center frequency of the noise, even at a constant intensity (5 dB SL), results in a different frequency or place spread of activation. The change in the area activated and the subsequent neural coding likely contributed to crude detection of pitch change. Further, the multiple coupled resonances of the brain and skull can yield subtle intensity cues [27,28] but, in any event, changes of perhaps 10% of the frequency are required in the ultrasonic range to be detected as a pitch shift [3].
Originally posted by ThoughtForms
How does the airborne ultrasound get into the ear to create such polaropposite human effects? Surprisingly, ultrasound passes first through the eyes; thus, the eye becomes but another window into the inner ear.
Nonetheless, this sampling rate of 44.1 kHz introduces highfrequency distortions (i.e., quantizing granularity) detectable by some listeners, which could be eliminated by sampling at 96 kHz/24 bit. In effect, the conservative estimate of 20 kHz as the upper range of hearing has resulted in a too-slow digital sampling to support high fidelity without distortions. If frequencies higher than 20 kHz are audible or useful, clearly sampling at 96 kHz is a necessity for true high fidelity. The question can be asked another way: Does the ear run out of musicality at 20 kHz? Many instruments produce energy well beyond 20,000 Hz at high levels [10]; even the human voice is capable of ultrasonic output if sufficient vocal effort is mustered (personal observation, 1990). Further electroencephalographic and positron emission tomographic changes were documented when frequencies beyond 22 kHz were presented along with conventional audio frequencies [7,8] to human listeners. No ultrasonic route to the ear was proposed in these studies, but certainly possible is that the ultrasonic energy in music-and for that matter, industrial noise-could pass through the eye and be detected by the ear.
Musical airborne energy beyond 22 kHz has been shown to alter the electroencephalogram and evoke physiological activity in the brainstem and thalamus but only when ultrasonic musical frequencies are combined with the musical spectrum below 22 kHz. The effect is based on the combination of two coherent acoustic routes, one conventional and one solely ultrasonic [7,8]. Each signal stimulates a separate area on the basilar membrane that would be integrated into a whole as any conventional complex auditory pattern. A case is made here for a separate airborne ultrasonic input, but the final pathway is the same because ultrasound activates the auditory cortex in normal-hearing and deaf listeners. Clearly, the eye, with its ultrasonic passband of 25-60 kHz, could transmit energy from instruments with ultrasonic energy (e.g., cymbals) to the ear and would activate both the auditory thalamus and the other nuclei in the auditory pathway. Very-high-frequency recordings (6-21 kHz) have activated the thalamus and other regions in the brain [28] in patients who have high-frequency tinnitus; thus, the thalamus plays a role in high-frequency and ultrasonic hearing. Musical instruments that have high-frequency and ultrasonic components are, for the most part, percussive; thus, the high audio and ultrasonic spectra would complement conventional audio frequencies consistent with the findings that the full spectrum is a better activator of the auditory system than is the ultrasound alone [7,8]. Ultrasound may contribute to pitch perception by extending the spectrum upward in frequency and by enhancing temporal cues. A simple test of the eye window's role in concert music would be to assess music quality with and without goggles. Goggles, as used as a control in this study, eliminated the eye window for airborne ultrasound.
The frequency to which the neuron is most sensitive is the center frequency. Stimulation of high frequencies outside the frequency response has been shown to cause some neurons to fire. The stimulation in this case is in a form of AM that is a process in which one sound is multiplied by another. One sound is termed the carrier (C) and the other the modulator (M). The product of the multiplication is the carrier, the carrier plus the modulator (C + M), and the carrier minus the modulator (C-M). Simply put, three tones beyond the frequency range of some auditory cortical neuron will cause it to fire. AM stimulation may not be necessary to obtain this effect; it was merely the mode of stimulation in our study. Musical harmonic information is coded by place both on the basilar membrane and temporally in neural firing. Ultrasound might contribute to the musical harmonic structure but may just provide more high-frequency energy to emphasize the treble in such instruments as the cymbals, triangles, trumpets, violins, and oboes (see Fig. 5B).
Originally posted by ThoughtForms
So hence, I cannot understand howmakes sense.
Frequency is zero when time is infinite
well I still don't get it whatever you want to call it, frequency can still be measured if time is infinite.
-- that is the Law of Phase Harmony --what is superliminal
and it means a superliminal
The term h m is measured in electron diffraction, but equating it to wavelength leads to an infinite phase velocity of the wave associated with an electron at rest. Indeed, for an electron at rest, we have frequency velocity = 0 , wavelength = infinity
In fact, we may sum up the foundations of the quantum theory as the combination of the Planck- Einstein quantum hypothesis, and the de Broglie-Heisenberg uncertainty relations. Uncertainty is a fundamental property of the quantum theory.
Originally posted by Mary Rose
These quantum gravity models rely on the key aspect of the noncommutative quantum logic: Peter Woit's book Not Even Wrong provides the best expose of theoretical physics and emphasizes how the “mirror-asymmetric nature” of the left-handed weak field has messed everything up.397
An idea I’ve always found appealing is that this spontaneous gauge symmetry breaking is somehow related to the other mysterious aspect of electroweak gauge symmetry: its chiral nature. SU(2) gauge fields couple only to left-handed spinors, not right-handed ones. In the standard view of the symmetries of nature, this is very weird. The SU(2) gauge symmetry is supposed to be a purely internal symmetry, having nothing to do with space-time symmetries, but left and righthanded spinors are distinguished purely by their behavior under a space-time symmetry, Lorentz symmetry. So SU(2) gauge symmetry is not only spontaneously broken, but also somehow knows about the subtle spin geometry of space-time. Surely there’s a connection here… So, this is my candidate for the Holy Grail of Physics, together with a guess as to which direction to go looking for it.398
The error of Maxwell's mathematics due to his force-fitting his speed formula to Michael Faraday's 1846 paper “Thoughts on Ray Vibration”, in which Faraday thought that light was electromagnetic. He was right, but Maxwell got the maths wrong by taking a short cut assumption about what the speed represented, before he even knew the speed of electricity!!! The (1) numerical value and (2) invariance of the 1/(root of product of electric and magnetic constant) formula in Maxwell's derivation in its modernised form led to the unproven assertion that this is the speed of light, which is always invariant. In fact, the speed 1/(root of product of electric and magnetic constant) is actually the speed of the vector sum
of electron spin and perpendicular-to-spin propagation, not the formula for light.
Only the speed of the electron spin and propagation vector sum is invariant at
300,000 km/s. The speed of light is not invariant. So we must accept relativity
only as applying to matter not to light, hence the time-dilation of material clocks,
length contraction, mass increase, e=mc2...
Originally posted by fulllotusqigong
I know you absolutely don't want to watch the frequency analysis video of the strange sounds in the sky -- which is hilarious considering you recommended that someone do a frequency analysis of the strange sounds in the sky. haha.
The frequency analysis was already done. The answer you were looking for was not found. I'm sorry about this for you. Good luck going through your denial about this.
Originally posted by ThoughtForms
I recommended that the person find out for themselves, you linked a youtube video. Thats the difference. Its not my question its theirs. I was saying it could have been answered better by you. and it could have been you are terrible at answering simple questions.
drew, I don't care. I never did. I just think you suck at explaining things and that if anyone fails to get your theories its your own damned fault.
-TFedit on 28-2-2012 by ThoughtForms because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by ThoughtForms
I just want to make good music. Thats my motivation, I don't know why you think I'm fixated with the fundamental tones of the 'strange sounds' other then that you're not paying attention to what I'm actually saying.
Regarding that, frequency measures from force energy, through sound and light, up to gamma rays etc. Its just an arbitrary measurement system just like any other.
is that the point of this whole thread? you suggest a better system? or just that the current one isn't perfect? coz its pretty bloody good really and certainly does the job where our current understanding of music is.
Originally posted by ThoughtForms
the ultrasonic thing is cool, I didn't know that and I will start upsampling my mixes, I'll also keep using A=432hz from time to time because I believe that if it produces more audible harmonics then 440, then it would do so in the
Typical for Baroque is a low tuning, A = 415-420Hz, which is about one semitone below 440, but higher seemed to have happened as well. However, the rest of the octave was tuned differently as well.
Historically, from the Baroque to the Romantic period there was a general tendency to keep pushing A=415 (Baroque average) higher and higher, even up to about 452 Hz (in the late Romantic Vienna Philharmonic, for example) because the musicians discovered that the higher tunings made the instruments sound more brilliant overall, which enhanced their acoustics in live performances.
Of course, like every other "standard" in existence, everyone has proceeded to disregard it and to set their own fundamental, as Theo points out, anywhere from 430 Hz to 445 Hz today, for the most part, although there are significant deviations even now. Many groups today, do, however, use A=415 when performing Baroque pieces. It does not really matter today, in live performances, where the tuning frequency is set, as long as it is used consistently among an organization or group of performers and agreed upon ahead of time.
An ideal tuning would be one in which the i,j entry only depends on |i-j|—each entry is equal to an ideal interval. In the ideal interval matrix, values on the diagonals are constant and equal to the ideal ratio. The ideal interval matrix is equivalent to the interval matrix only in ET [Equal Temperament -- using logarithms]. Any unequal interval propagates itself through the matrix, causing irregularity.
His history and theory are admirably accurate, and he gives perhaps the simplest exposition I’ve seen of the 18th-century theory of dividing the octave into 55 parts, using a minor half-step of four units (C to C#) and a major half-step of five units (C to Db). We know for a fact that’s the intonation Mozart taught, folks, and as Duffin adds: Are modern practices better than what Mozart had in mind? I don’t think so, and I don’t think most musicians would deliberately go against the expectations of a composer like Mozart if they knew what those expectations were. And even though the sound of lower sharps and higher flats is likely to be unfamiliar to many musicians, I think Mozart’s endorsement makes it worth trying… and trying very seriously. [Ellipsis in the original]
I am perfectly aware that what I am suggesting is a radical idea for musicians and that it is likely to be met with reluctance, resistance, and even scorn in some quarters. Some musicians will be convinced by my arguments but may still view unequal tuning as a Pandora’s box to be opened carefully or not at all; others will scoff at the long historical pedigree of extended meantone as irrelevant; still others will find both the harmonic and melodic intervals strangeand “out of tune.” At least that’s how it may seem to some the first time they hear it or try it. But my experience has been that an hour or so of experimenting over two or three sessions is all that’s necessary to help musicians begin, at least, to appreciate what non-ET tuning has to offer from a musical point of view…. [T]he testimonials of Bach and Mozart have to count for something. What makes it worth trying is that it makes the music sound better. And remember, I’m not saying that harmonic intonation should replace ET entirely and substitute its own tyranny; only that ET is not necessarily the best temperament for every single musical situation….
I had always associated synchronicity with Carl Jung but recently rereading Lama Anagarika Govinda’s The Inner Structure of the I Ching I was reminded that as a mode of thinking it is profoundly Chinese. Govinda writes: “All our reasoning is based on the law of cause and effect operating as a sequence. The Chinese do not reason so much along this horizontal line from past, through present to future; they reason perpendicularly, from what is in one place now to what is in another place now. In other words, they do not ask why, or from what past causes, a certain set of things is happening now; they ask, ‘What is the meaning of these things happening at this moment?’ The word Tao is the answer to this question. The present situation within and around oneself is Tao, for the present moment is life. Our memory of the past is contained in it as well as the potentiality for the future.”
This new focus on music as a justification for cold calculating reason and empire is also the point of Professor Michael Hudson’s essay, “Music as an Analogy for Economic Order in Classical Antiquity” in Jürgen Backhaus (ed.), Karl Bücher. Theory, History, Anthropology, Non-Market Economies (Marburg:Metropolis Verlag, 2000): pp. 113-35: Pythagoras became the patron saint of the most anti-democratic clubs. They used the principles of musical harmony as a patina of pseudo-science to give intellectual legitimacy to a movement whose worldly consequences were anything but harmonious. The Pythagorean clubs became a network of civic cults rising above the local sphere to which most clubs related. There seems to have been some connection with the Delphi temple (the name Pythagoras means “voice of Pythia,” the snake-goddess of Delphi and its oracle). They have been likened to the Free Masons, in that they served as a kind of Council of Foreign Relations or New World Order…. Archytas developed the musical scale into a political metaphor for the scales of justice. What gave music this imagery of social balance and just proportion was the ability of its mathematics of harmonic (“geometric”) proportions to serve as an analogy for how inequities of wealth and status rendered truly superior men equal in proportion to their virtue — which tended to reflect their wealth. By this circular logic the wealthy were enabled to rationalize their hereditary dominance over the rest of the population.
Originally posted by 00bil
reply to post by fulllotusqigong
Thanks for your post - sadly I'm in work and the prooxy server automatically blocks anything youtube (although seems to consider ATS to be fine!) so I couldn't get access to your link!
Thus, instead of a neverending "line" or "spiral" of fifths, a fixed pitch instrument would use a truncated version - the "circle of fifths", perhaps by tuning six fifths up and five fifths down (creating C G D A E B F# forwards, and C F Bb Eb Ab Db backwards). With this arrangement, the interval between F# and Db is known as the 'wolf' note or interval, being slightly flatter than a true fifth (1.4798, or 678.49 cents wide). Suffice to say that other nearby intervals (such as Ab to B in this arrangement) also feel the knock-on effect. The 'better' intervals would be the ones which don't travel so far from the 'flat side' to the 'sharp side'. With non-fixed pitch instruments however, or dynamic 3-limit just intonation, the effect is lessened somewhat, since a true spiral of fifths can be obtained, allowing double flats and sharps if needed.
Then what of the fifth and fourth, are they complementary of each other? The fifth I submit as the major interval and the fourth as the minor interval in an original archetypal type sense. Their different qualities of “archetypal contraction and expansion” are subtle but clear. The perfect fifth is expansive and stable whereas the perfect fourth is contracting and unstable.
A tone when experienced as a prime will unfold a gravitational pull in an “inward central” direction. A tone embodying the power of the octave will unfold a levitational pull from “the periphery” which we can feel to be an expansive force. And yet by virtue of an octave’s ability of becoming a prime (and vice versa), we can have the feeling of expanding downward towards the prime and indeed contracting upward towards the octave. Thus polarity and paradox are married in this relationship of two different experiences, which are often mistaken as being synonymous! The fundamental and its first overtone, the octave, embody the closest relationship two pitches can have to one another. This fact is perhaps the reason for why the difference between the two is often overlooked.