Sunday, September 24, 2017

Tinnitus

With Vanuatu ocupying centre stage it is a chance to consider the effects of the illness called tinnitus. For the outsider to get a feel of the phenomeno tinitus is an age related disease where the ear picks up sounds that would ordinaril be muffled in an healthy individual.

You can get a taste of it by clicking your fingernails at arm's length. slide one fingernail over the end of another then bring your arm or arms tight to your stomach and do the same again.

The belly acts as a resonance chamber magnifying the sounds the nails make as a deeper tone. The earth has such resonance chambers all over the surface they act as resonaters designed by god to minimise noise. If he had neglected to endow the planet then all of creation would need sunglasses for the ears.

But because volcanoes are echo chambers that repeat the noise that volcanic eruptions make at just the right distance once the mountain reaches an optimum height, the sounds combine in a manner similar to the sound boxes called mufflers in motor exhaust pipes. The repeated sounds meet each other ata node and produce a sine wave that cancels itself.

You will need to research Hemholz Resonators to get a clearer picture of what I am talking about. If I try to find a link, it will likely be the de facto, Wikipedia but i no longer like to point to that service as it is a tool of the devil.

Usually we tinnitus sufferes will hear a sound from volcanoes but in my case living on the other side of the planet from the one erupting now I can hear both of it. That is I can hear the vibration coming from both directions.

This is either nonesense or a brilliant observation. I will leave my redemption in abeyance for future research to explain the purity of my genius or not, as the case may be.

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