The geometry of sound

[Tom Servo]

May be of interest for those looking into RahXephon and the theme of sound, a theme which a large chunk of the show revolves around.

I've discussed this here already so folks have probably come across this topic before, if not here's a good intro: http://www.fusionanomaly.net/cymatics.html

I recommend this video:
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=2795869048702157810 there's some great stuff in there.

I have a book called sacred geometry and the 4th dimension, by rudolf steiner - which is a compilation of his lectures on the spiritual nature of multidimensional geometry which happens to have on it's front cover a cymatic image. I'm sure someone, if they really wanted to, could use the material in this book to explain the retuning process, the time barrier, along with the original split in spacetime that resulted in mu and human becoming separated, and to explain the technology the mu use to link up with the dolems.

There are many more aspects to this but it's more of a tangent than anything else.

Anyone who watched Lost a couple of nights ago would have seen a resonance device that used sound to mush folks brains up; in a book on Tesla and prototype russian weaponry of his period I remember coming across similar sound devices, this ties into the Dolems and the Xephon using sound as a weapon.

These things of course aren't needed for a understanding of RahXephon at all, but may be of interest to hardcore fans or perhaps fanfiction writers!

[Vir]

Interesting angle.

Look up Tesla's "earthquake generator". Mad stuff.

Maybe not exactly an earthquake generator, but still. Resonance is scary. Look at the Tacoma Narrows bridge.

Later, Tesla would establish his Houston Street laboratory in New York at 46 E. Houston Street. There, at one point while experimenting with mechanical oscillators he generated a resonance of several surrounding buildings, but ironically due to the frequencies involved, not his own building, causing complaints to the police. As the speed grew he hit the resonant frequency of his own building and belatedly realising the danger he was forced to apply a sledge hammer to terminate the experiment, just as the astonished police arrived. -- Nikola Tesla on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla#_ref-26)

[Tom Servo]

Tesla used simple air or steam pressure oscillators to get that effect, there were a couple of sites I used to check that were in the process of recreating those machines but using pulsed electromagnetic fields to move a piston instead of air or steam pressure - I never saw the results of their work sadly.

Of course there is that famous quote of his: "I could build a machine to break the earth in two" which is referring to a scaled up version of the earthquake machines.

I forgot about that so thanks for posting that quote/link.

Everyone knows about the opera singer breaking a glass with his or her voice - similar dynamic.

It's not over until the fat lady sings!