Some interesting points!
TomViolenz wrote:
As to the planck scale of distance: As of now it really seems, like this is the shortest distance
possible. This is a result of quantum mechanics, I believe. (I'm not a physicist though). So it's not an artefact of not being able to measure shorter distances, but it's a fundamental parameter of the universe. I find this extremely fascinating! This means that reality is actually pixelated!
This is something I'm not sure about though - likewise, I'm not a physicist, so really for me it's just a
slightly educated guess, and maybe also based on an 'intuition', but when I read about string/m theory and the like I never feel satisfied at the assumption that we are capable of detecting the smallest point in the universe or that there even is such a thing. My feeling is that the universe isn't pixelated, but it keeps going on in a fractal way, like the mandelbrot-set, forever. It's just very difficult for us to comprehend this because we are used to seeing our reality as having a beginning and an ending because we are born and die and don't yet know what happens to us when we die. Although, even now physicists say that it's impossible for information to be destroyed and it only ever changes state. Maybe like if you were to watch a time lapse of matter decaying then becoming something else it would look like the mandelbrot set over billions of years. They say we each have probably a billion atoms that were also in Shakespeare or the Dinosaurs.
Regarding tuning to different frequencies. The described effects of the standing waves are always very dependent on the local parameters of the listening enviroment. So it would be kind of insane to change the whole tuning system, if you could just use another space to play in.
This is why I said this concept might better suit an installation rather than a 'gig'. As someone said before, just changing the pitch of a record is effectively changing the reference point from 440Hz. But the point is +/-8 on a turntable is doing it randomly without taking into consideration the environment, I am just saying that I think it is at least
possible to have control over these parameters in a way that could be meaningful, given everything in the universe vibrates at some level.
Also, I sincerly doubt any effects on cancer cells, if only because cancer cells are normal cells that went rougue. So the pre cancer cell, was the same size with the same dimensions as the surrounding cells, that didn't go the cancer route. Since resonance is very much depending on the dimensions of the medium, I don't see how the cancer cell would respond differently do sound.
Interesting discussions arise, if open mindedness doesn't mean eschewing reason!
Of course, many people are trying to solve the cancer problem, and so still don't fully understand what "going rogue" really is or how it works. I was just using this as a simple example, but maybe those cells do vibrate at a slightly different rate than normal cells? I mean, this would have to be on a sub-atomic level and to fully understand something like that we would need to go down to the smallest possible scale we can measure, and as I said before, I wonder if no matter how small you go there is always still something smaller, but if what you said before is right and the universe is indeed pixelated, then this will mean it is possible to one day arrive at a real measurement for the Planck scale, and from that point on we can truly accurately measure everything, because it will be some kind of multiple of the smallest unit.
But for the practical purposes of this discussion: if you are in a club, and you have two speakers directly opposite each other, then at some point in between them there will be a standing wave, so the question is, what happens if you stand at that point, and does the effect change according to the frequency, or combination of frequencies/harmonics?
This is just fun to think about really, and the kind of shit I waste my time and brain power on!
