Saturday, September 24, 2011

Destruction Frequencies


Thinking about the power of sound, what first comes to mind is the old trick of the opera singers shattering a crystal glass using their vocal cords. This is possible as long as the glass is crystal. You tap the glass, and the pitch of the sound that is made is the frequency necessary for shattering it. Then, I started thinking about other forms of matter. Do they have their own shattering frequencies? What would they be? It isn’t so easy to find them. You can’t tap a polyester jacket to find its shattering frequency.
It is possible to shatter most forms of matter not through frequency but through sheer force of sound. Unfortunately, the sound needs to be so loud a human being would shatter their own eardrums first before tapping through the density of, say a computer screen or a brick wall, but if there were a way of tapping into the proper frequency necessary in splitting other forms of matter, the world would be so much more fun.
We would seek the frequency of a planet, find it, and the rest destroys itself.

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