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.

Did you ever listen to light ? Do photons sing? Do they dance ?

Questions, questions, questions ...

In sci.physics.relativity, Tristan Beeline

wrote
on 11 Jun 2005 23:05:55 -0700
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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.

Did you ever listen to light ? Do photons sing? Do they dance ?

Questions, questions, questions ...

This thrad could get extremely silly:

http://www.quarkdance.org

Regrettably, the quarks won't let the leptons and the
bosons into their dance party... :-) (Light quanta --
photons -- are integral spin, and therefore bosons.)

On a more serious note, recall what sound *is*. A light
(or radio, or gamma) wave is an electromagnetic disturbance,
which probably cannot be sensed by humans directly
except through the eyeball if it's in a relatively narrow
frequency range. A sound wave is a longitudinal compression
wave through the air (for the most part where we are concerned,
although solids and liquids can also transmit sound).

And of course, we can transmit radio waves of just about
any sound desired, up to a point. So the short answer is "all
of the above..."

--
#191,
It's still legal to go .sigless.

"Tristan Beeline" wrote in message om...
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.

Did you ever listen to light ? Do photons sing? Do they dance ?

Questions, questions, questions ...

"Questions, questions, questions, flooding into the mind of
the concerned young person today. Ah, but it's a great time
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Dirk Vdm

what the phuck is this for a name

dirk van de moortel ... bwahahaha

is this your real name !?

ill be ashamed to come in public with
this name, seriously

hadnt you considered a name changing,
its a ugly name, dirk van... what the phuck
is that

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.

Did you ever listen to light ? Do photons sing? Do they dance ?

Questions, questions, questions ...

Do the experiment. Shine a flashlight into your ear and tell us what
you hear.

"Paul Cardinale" wrote in message oups.com...


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.

Did you ever listen to light ? Do photons sing? Do they dance ?

Questions, questions, questions ...

Do the experiment. Shine a flashlight into your ear and tell us what
you hear.

Let him shine a laser in his ear and tell us what he smells...

Dirk Vdm

Dear Tristan Beeline:

"Tristan Beeline" wrote in message
om...
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.

Did you ever listen to light ? Do photons sing? Do
they dance ?

There are recorded events where people "heard" the passage of the
space shuttle through the upper atmosphere. Also recorded and
documented cases of the people "hearing" the northern lights.
But these are usually local objects "dancing" to induced radio
emissions.

So I guess this make light the conductor, and us the
orchestra/troupe. And when you get right down to it, hearing is
only possible because c-moderated forces make us what we are.

David A. Smith

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.

PD

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