rocks cry out
Yesterday, Palm Sunday, the service included Jesus's phrase that if his followers were silenced then the rocks would cry out. This set me to thinking about rocks and frequencies.
I'll never forget the day I learned that everything vibrates: rocks, metal, every inanimate thing has a natural vibrative property, based on the motion of its molecules. Crystals in particular have a strong property because of the way their molecules are lined up: crystals aren't just rocks, they're Rockettes.
This is why quartz is used in watches. We can use the minuscule vibrations of a quartz crystal to help us tell time. And of course every musician knows that vibrations cause compressions and rarefactions of air, which then get sent out like ripples in a pond, creating sound. It's only the thickness of air and the capabilities of our ears that make it so that we cannot hear the faint but constant cry of the rocks.
What a mind-blowing experiment, to sit back and revel in imagining the squealing, tearing, booming praise of all creation, from the zizzing of crystals to the very harmony of the spheres.
I'll never forget the day I learned that everything vibrates: rocks, metal, every inanimate thing has a natural vibrative property, based on the motion of its molecules. Crystals in particular have a strong property because of the way their molecules are lined up: crystals aren't just rocks, they're Rockettes.
This is why quartz is used in watches. We can use the minuscule vibrations of a quartz crystal to help us tell time. And of course every musician knows that vibrations cause compressions and rarefactions of air, which then get sent out like ripples in a pond, creating sound. It's only the thickness of air and the capabilities of our ears that make it so that we cannot hear the faint but constant cry of the rocks.
What a mind-blowing experiment, to sit back and revel in imagining the squealing, tearing, booming praise of all creation, from the zizzing of crystals to the very harmony of the spheres.
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