We generally say sound is a wave. It isnt. All audible sounds are, in fact, spherical in form or spheroidal, that is to say audible sounds are sphere-like but not necessarily perfectly spherical. For the sake of simplicity well call these spheroidal sound spheres sound bubbles. Our world is teeming with beautiful holographic sound bubbles that envelop us in shimmering patterns of acoustic energy, each bubble rushing away at around 700 miles an hour as new bubbles form from the source of the sound. Whether the sound is emitted from your voice or from some other source, such as a musical instrument, this ‘bubble-in-a-hurry leaves a fleeting vibrational imprint on the surface of your body: every cell in the surface tissues of your body actually receives sound patterns from the bubbles that surround you. However, only low frequency sounds can penetrate the interior of your body.… Yet, despite the fact that sound is not a wave, the term ‘sound wave is in general use throughout the world, which is rather amazing when sound waves dont actually exist! So let us briefly discuss how this strange anomaly has occurred. Sound is basically periodic movements of air molecules bumping into each other. These movements of sound can be described mathematically and when plotted graphically the shape of the graph does indeed look like a wave. However, if we could see audible sounds shimmering in the air around us we would see beautiful bubbles, not waves, so it is misleading to say that sound is a ‘wave. If what is actually a bubble is described as a wave it is possible that incorrect conclusions will be made about the way Nature works. – John Stuart and Analiese Shandra Reid
Posted on: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 02:23:44 +0000
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