Dear PD:

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Tristan Beeline wrote:
I wonder if light sounds like good music , Bach or
Wagner for example or if it sounds like Michael
Jackson or if it's just noise.

Light *does* 'sound' like good music. You just detect
the 'sound' with your eyes instead of with your ears.
If you look at a lovely painting, you are seeing the
music of light.

Seriously.

Both are waves, a combination of different
frequencies overlapping. The organs of our ears are
designed to be sensitive to one kind of wave, and
our eyes are designed to be sensitive to another
kind of wave.

There was a little news story about people that "see" sound.
Something in neural processing causes tones to be perceived also
as colors. I wonder if the reverse has been noted to happen?

David A. Smith