Post by nickcosmosonde on May 20, 2011 16:37:38 GMT 1
I came across this interesting nugget the other day:
www.lifesci.sussex.ac.uk/cmvcr/Publications_files/McCombetalPurring.pdf
...which analyses the typical frequency componenets in a cat's purr. It suggests that a cat (a domestic cat with a dependent human-bonding, at least) will alter its normal "contented" purr - based on a root base note of G with a marked peak at E and high-frequency harmonics of B notes (making a very pleasing major chord) with a high conclusion on F - to a much more displeasing set of frequencies when soliciting food (to an irritating sharp chord based on B, focussed by an A# and C# and a high conclusion on E, simply begging musically to be resolved by the same satisfying F) which, some researchers have found, mimics the typical frequency structures found in a human baby's cry.
And it reminded me of this, a now famous study from the late 90s:
www.animalvoice.com/catpur.htm
...which argues very persuasively I think that a cat's purr promotes bone growth and accelerates healing (a now generally accepted mechanism explored in depth by Robert Becker and others using ELF modulated magnetic fields).
What I found really fascinating about this is the frequency analysis shown in the first paper, which shows a strong peak in the contented, non-soliciting purr at 2130 Hz. This happens to be the frequency required, given the average strength of the geomagnetic field, to precess protons, typically in water- in MRI, for example, or in a standard precessing magnetometer. This can't be coincidental, I would have thought. I would surmise the cat is resonating the water molecules in its body - and its kittens', and presumably its owners' too - to enhance the healing and overall cohesive strength of its bio-energetic field.
A further thought occurs. Given that the wavelength of this frequency (as an em wave) is about 140km, and this is on average the height of most reflective boundary layer of the ionosphere, there should be an audible radio "hum" at this frequency occurring all sround us almost constantly. Presumably we can't "hear" it because our cochleal neurons have ceased to fire in response to it, as they will do given a constant background stimulus. It should only be noticeable given extraordinary directed efforts to tune into it, or if for some reason to do with ionospheric conditions it shifts its frequency outside of its normal fluctuating range. I'm thinking here of the apparent auditory-enhancing paraphenalia that various hierophants and shaman are often depicted wearing - in Egypt and Celtic traditions, for example. And the extraordinary lengths ancient cultures went to in building monumental structures that from an electrical engineering point of view can be interpreted as amplifying transducers. There is certainly no question that "hums" can be heard from a wide range of stone circles examined across Europe, particurlay at the geomagnetically significant Equinoces and Solstices - the Rollrights in Oxfordshire, Stonehenge, and Newgrange in Ireland, being the well-documented examples.
www.lifesci.sussex.ac.uk/cmvcr/Publications_files/McCombetalPurring.pdf
...which analyses the typical frequency componenets in a cat's purr. It suggests that a cat (a domestic cat with a dependent human-bonding, at least) will alter its normal "contented" purr - based on a root base note of G with a marked peak at E and high-frequency harmonics of B notes (making a very pleasing major chord) with a high conclusion on F - to a much more displeasing set of frequencies when soliciting food (to an irritating sharp chord based on B, focussed by an A# and C# and a high conclusion on E, simply begging musically to be resolved by the same satisfying F) which, some researchers have found, mimics the typical frequency structures found in a human baby's cry.
And it reminded me of this, a now famous study from the late 90s:
www.animalvoice.com/catpur.htm
...which argues very persuasively I think that a cat's purr promotes bone growth and accelerates healing (a now generally accepted mechanism explored in depth by Robert Becker and others using ELF modulated magnetic fields).
What I found really fascinating about this is the frequency analysis shown in the first paper, which shows a strong peak in the contented, non-soliciting purr at 2130 Hz. This happens to be the frequency required, given the average strength of the geomagnetic field, to precess protons, typically in water- in MRI, for example, or in a standard precessing magnetometer. This can't be coincidental, I would have thought. I would surmise the cat is resonating the water molecules in its body - and its kittens', and presumably its owners' too - to enhance the healing and overall cohesive strength of its bio-energetic field.
A further thought occurs. Given that the wavelength of this frequency (as an em wave) is about 140km, and this is on average the height of most reflective boundary layer of the ionosphere, there should be an audible radio "hum" at this frequency occurring all sround us almost constantly. Presumably we can't "hear" it because our cochleal neurons have ceased to fire in response to it, as they will do given a constant background stimulus. It should only be noticeable given extraordinary directed efforts to tune into it, or if for some reason to do with ionospheric conditions it shifts its frequency outside of its normal fluctuating range. I'm thinking here of the apparent auditory-enhancing paraphenalia that various hierophants and shaman are often depicted wearing - in Egypt and Celtic traditions, for example. And the extraordinary lengths ancient cultures went to in building monumental structures that from an electrical engineering point of view can be interpreted as amplifying transducers. There is certainly no question that "hums" can be heard from a wide range of stone circles examined across Europe, particurlay at the geomagnetically significant Equinoces and Solstices - the Rollrights in Oxfordshire, Stonehenge, and Newgrange in Ireland, being the well-documented examples.