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Thread #31468   Message #410306
Posted By: GUEST
03-Mar-01 - 01:44 PM
Thread Name: What DO Physicists Think About?
Subject: RE: What DO Physicists Think About?
Prehaps Gray Rooster will show us his simple picture of a photon, demonstrating the properties we know about if from corpluscular, wave, and quantum electro-dynamics models. Picture please, too, the Heisenberg uncertaintly principle, and show how this becomes the reciprocal spreading of electronic circuitry (few electonics engineers know of this identity).

Gray Rooter has identified the 'harmony' in the original posting with music, which is completely unwarranted. Music harmony itself is rather complex. In Juan Roederer's recent book "The Physic and Phsyco-Physics of Sound' is given a graph of an experimental determination of the limits of consonance between two notes (frequencies) and within 75% confidence limits any thing from a minor 3rd to major 5th is consonant. Applying it again between that second note and a new note we find the minimum for a three note chord as the diminished 5th, but the maximum puts the last note as 9/4 times the base note, so it's two octaves away from the base note. The diminished 7th involves the minimum separation for a 4 note chord. A 12TET scale, like from a piano gives a rotten approximation to a true diminished 7th. Once can come close to that last note (the 7th double flatted) with a 21 note just intonation scale, but to get it right on you need the whole 35 note just intonation scale, having all the double flats (and sharps).

Now let's see if Gray Rooster knows anything worth while about the subject of physics. From what I've seen so far he seems to have a good command of the pseudo-science equivalent of psychobabble, but nothing more.