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Protoscience?

Posted by Fnarf | November 9, 2006 5:26 PM
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The planets do "vibrate" in physical oscillational terms, but it's a very large oscillation that takes days, weeks to months for one cycle. If your EM brainwaves oscillated that slow, either you're the world's most badass yogi or about to die.

Posted by The CHZA | November 9, 2006 6:59 PM
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I think what they're typically doing with the idea of entraining your brainwaves to the "music of the spheres" is tuning pitches to melodic intervals of these oscillations, most likely octaves. When you take an ultra-slow oscillation at 1 cycle/30 days and bump it up 30 octaves (multiply it by itself 30 times) you end up with a pitch at roughly 414.2522469 cycles/second (just below concert A). These pitches would more or less harmonize with the source oscillation.
I've got too much free time on my hands.

Posted by Manos De Plata | November 10, 2006 11:57 AM
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Or in other words you could just play an A. Close enough, and a lot less trouble.

Personally I believe that the deep universe resounds to the bass part from "Burn Rubber" by the Gap Band.

Posted by Fnarf | November 10, 2006 4:41 PM
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Protoscience involves scientific speculation that is not yet experamentally provable/disprovable. It tends to stay within the realm of accepted science in the hopes of becomeing testable in the near future.

Thomas Kuhn coined the phrase in an essay:
"there are many fields — I shall call them proto-sciences — in which practice does generate testable conclusions but which nevertheless resemble philosophy and the arts rather than the established sciences in their developmental patterns."

Posted by Alli Urban | November 10, 2006 6:01 PM

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