Those pesky Nazis

Lew

http://www.whydontyoutrythis.com/2013/08/440hz-music-conspiracy-to-detune-good-vibrations-from-natural-432hz.html

Discuss

digitalscream

Well, it's absolute bollocks for a start. Any article which describes moving up from 432Hz to 440Hz as "detuning" clearly has more interest in a conspiracy theory than what really happened.

As it happens, the standardisation to 440Hz was pushed by us and the Americans. Also, their calculations are off - what they describe as the the natural frequency of the universe is a) not actually the natural vibration of the universe, and b) not 432Hz.

In other words, they're idiots.

Lew

Perhaps you'd be more relaxed and open minded about the whole thing if you were listening to music at 432hz!

ddlooping

There are frequencies that do create some symmetrical patterns.



I don't think the "experiment" was precise enough though. 

ICBM

ddlooping said:

There are frequencies that do create some symmetrical patterns.

Only if the plate has resonances which match those particular frequencies. If you used a different plate, different frequencies would produce those results.

There are no 'absolute' frequencies in mechanics - only in quantum physics, eg spectral lines of radiation.

ddlooping

ICBM said:

ddlooping said:

There are frequencies that do create some symmetrical patterns.

Only if the plate has resonances which match those particular frequencies. If you used a different plate, different frequencies would produce those results.

There are no 'absolute' frequencies in mechanics - only in quantum physics, eg spectral lines of radiation.

Thanks for the info, ICBM.

What are the  'absolute' frequencies in quantum physics?

P.S: that's why we all have a different "brown" sound?

digitalscream

ICBM said:

There are no 'absolute' frequencies in mechanics - only in quantum physics, eg spectral lines of radiation.

Maybe not, but there is one lesson to take from this article: intelligence is relative, while stupidity is both absolute and infectious via the online medium

ICBM

ddlooping said:

What are the  'absolute' frequencies in quantum physics?

The absolute frequencies are the spectral lines created when photons are emitted and absorbed by elements - these have exact, universally-fixed frequencies that correspond to the energy differences between electron levels within the atom. There are others as well but these are the best-known and the simplest to understand .

But in mechanics, everything is a 'sliding scale' - there are no fixed points, only relationships; so to claim that any particular vibration or audio frequency is more special than any other is nonsense.

digitalscream said:

Maybe not, but there is one lesson to take from this article: intelligence is relative, while stupidity is both absolute and infectious via the online medium

And indeed infinite, as Einstein correctly stated.

bandmaster188

sounds like a load of old tosh to me

ddlooping

ICBM said:

But in mechanics, everything is a 'sliding scale' - there are no fixed points, only relationships; so to claim that any particular vibration or audio frequency is more special than any other is nonsense.

Unless it resonates with you.

Sporky

On clicking the link I get a warning page from Sophos:

High Risk Website Blocked

Location: www.whydontyoutrythis.com/2013/08/440hz-music-conspiracy-to-detune-good-vibrations-from-natural-432hz.html

Access has been blocked as the threat Mal/HTMLGen-A has been found on this website.

Return to the page you were previously viewing.

frankus

You do know that concert pitch used to be the D below the current "A"?

ddlooping

Sporky said:

On clicking the link I get a warning page from Sophos:

High Risk Website Blocked

Location: www.whydontyoutrythis.com/2013/08/440hz-music-conspiracy-to-detune-good-vibrations-from-natural-432hz.html

Access has been blocked as the threat Mal/HTMLGen-A has been found on this website.

Return to the page you were previously viewing.

False positive?

Sporky

ddlooping said:

False positive?

Could be.

Or it's just trying to protect my brain from the insane jibber-jabber on that site.

Lew

I can't help but think people are taking this is a little bit too seriously