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To: grey_whiskers

sound (and mechanical heat, for that matter) is nothing more or less than aggregate motion in particulate media. it is a known fact, testable, demonstrable, that intersecting sound waves of the same frequency and phase will amplify each other in a harmonic at the point of intersection, whereas intersecting sound waves of the same frequency but opposite phase will cancel each other. I believe something similar is true of radiant energy (light, infrared heat, radio, etc... but that is outside of my competence)

In a large enough set, of high enough density, with a finite range of possible energy signatures, it is inevitable that random sources will produce harmonics and cancellations, which will in turn cause organization in what was previously a uniform distribution.


662 posted on 04/17/2006 11:35:37 AM PDT by King Prout (The UN 1967 Outer Space Treaty is bad for America and bad for humanity - DUMP IT.)
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To: King Prout

Any large enough random system will contain all possible patterns.


669 posted on 04/18/2006 7:46:45 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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