Evan Grant: Making sound visible through cymatics

http://www.ted.com Evan Grant demonstrates the science and art of cymatics, a process for making soundwaves visible. Useful for analyzing complex sounds (like dolphin calls), it also makes complex and beautiful designs.

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[vicx05]

This is why binaural beats/music has an effect on your consciousness and therefore our physical bodies because they're simply a manifestation of the energy we surround ourselves with, cymatics gives us a visual hint of what we're manifesting. In 20-30 years we'll look back at this time exactly the same way we currently look back on those who thought the world was flat. We have SO much to learn and this is just a hint of the massive paradigm shift towards metaphysics we're now moving into.

[ClaraMassa1]

You are correct imboycrywolf. There is no originality here. And the lecture is basically a word for word copy paste job from the Wikipedia article on cymatics. Some people are just shameless plagiarists.

[Viktor Sike]

Is anyone knows whats that music at the end?

[TheAerospaceGeek]

no it isn't.

[BrokenMaddie]

you got that right. he has read the wikipedia entry for cymatics, and tried to pass it off as a Ted talk. thats pretty shameful. Evan Grant talks pseudoscientific bullshit.

[newton3010]

This is just the tip of the iceberg people. If you were to take the sand into space and perform this experiment with synchronized vibration coming from all around the sand you would find that it creates a 3 dimensional shape. This is force that gives atoms their form and from that their function. This is how complex strings of acids can form a complex lifeform...its the voice of God.

[jellyfish501]

he didn't say anything meaning full,

but sound music waves and vibrations are amazing! and are the fundemntal "building blocks" of our universe!

[Plague360kc]

The vibrations of life. All atoms are is vibrating particles right? This just keeps making me think about the reason things have shape. Perhaps the universe is just a giant vibration.

[Plague360kc]

Allot of these shapes are found in ancient geometry patterns. Is there something about these frequencies that perhaps the ancients knew that we are just finding out again? This is very interesting especial from a musicians point of view.

[gubberfuck]

i think that type of 'cymatics' sounds like pseudoscience. the physical phenomenon is cool, though.

[QELBANIX]

Does anyone knows the title of the song in the end of the video???