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Resonance
This nOde last
updated January 27th, 2003 and is permanently morphing...
(2 K'an (Lizard) / 17 Muwan (Owl)
- 184/260 - 12.19.9.17.4)

...people of similar nature, on
the other hand,
immediately
come to feel a kind of general agreement; and if they are cast very much in
the same mold, complete harmony or even unison will
flow
from their intercourse...This explains two circumstances. First of all, it shows
why it is that common, ordinary people are so sociable and find good company
wherever they go. Ah! those good, dear, brave people. It is just the contrary
with those who are not of the common run; and the less they are so, the more
unsociable they become; so that if, in their isolation, they chance to come
across someone in whose nature they can find even a single sympathetic
chord, be it never so minute, they show extraordinary pleasure in his society.
For one man can be to another only so much as the other is to him. Great minds
are like eagles, and build their nest in some lofty solitude.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
resonance
resonance (rèz´e-nens)
noun
1. The quality or condition
of being resonant: "It is home and family that give resonance . . . to
life" (George Gilder). "Israel, gateway to Mecca, is of course a land of
religious resonance and geopolitical significance" (James Wolcott).
2. Physics. The increase
in amplitude of
oscillation
of an
electric
or mechanical system exposed to a periodic
force
whose
frequency
is equal or very close to the natural undamped frequency of the system.
3. Acoustics.
Intensification
and prolongation of sound, especially of a musical tone, produced by sympathetic
vibration.
4. Linguistics. Intensification
of vocal tones during articulation, as by the air cavities of the mouth
and nasal passages.
5. Medicine. The sound produced
by diagnostic percussion of the normal chest.
6. Chemistry. The property
of a compound having simultaneously the characteristics of two or more
structural forms that differ only in the distribution of electrons. Such
compounds are highly stable and cannot be properly represented by a single
structural formula.
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Resonance (chemistry)
Resonance (chemistry), form of bonding between atoms in a molecule in which the complex sharing of electrons gives greater stability to the molecule. The atoms are linked in a more than one-to-one relationship. Many inorganic radicals exhibit resonance, as do aromatic compounds.
Resonance (electronics)
Resonance (electronics), condition in an electric
circuit in which the combined effects of capacity and induction cancel
each other out or reinforce each other to produce a minimum or maximum
effect. The condition resembles similar combined effects in other systems,
discussed below. Resonance occurs at a particular frequency called the
resonant frequency, depending upon the amounts of inductance and capacitance
in each circuit (Capacitor).
If an alternating voltage of the resonant frequency
is applied to a circuit in which capacity and inductance are connected
in series, the circuit conducts a maximum amount of current. When the capacitance
and inductance are connected in parallel, little current will pass. Resonant
circuits are used in electric equipment to select or reject currents of
specific frequencies.
Resonance can also occur in mechanical, structural,
and acoustical systems when a system is excited by the continued application
of forces at the natural frequency. The collapse of the Tacoma Narrows
suspension bridge at Puget Sound, Washington, in 1940, for example, was
caused by wind-excited vibrations at the natural frequency of the structure.
Matter: Organic matter: Resonance
resonance (noun)
resonance, sonorousness
vibration, oscillation
reverberation, reflection
lingering note, echo, recurrence
twang, twanging
ringing, ringing in the
ear, singing, tinnitus
bell ringing, tintinnabulation,
campanology
peal, carillon
sonority, boom
clang, clangor, plangency
brass, loudness
peal, blare, bray, flourish,
tucket
sounding brass, tinkling
cymbal
tinkle, tintinnabulation,
jingle
chink, clink
ping,
ring, ting-a-ling, chime
low note, deep note, grave
note, bass note, pedal note, musical note
low voice, basso, basso
profondo, bass, baritone, bass baritone, contralto
Other Forms
repetition: echo, repercussion,
reverberation, resonance
re
coil:
repercussion, reverberation, echo, resonance
oscillation: vibrancy, resonance,
periodicity
sound: sonority, sonorousness,
resonance
sound: types of sound, bang,
roll, resonance, nonresonance, sibilation, stridor, cry, ululation, discord
loudness: sonority, organ
notes, clang, clangor, resonance
roll: booming, clang, ping,
reverberation, resonance
musical note: low note, resonance
Acoustic space is capable of simultaneity, superimposition, and nonlinearity, but above all, it resonates.
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"Resonance" can be seen as
a form of causality, of course, but its causality is very different than
that associated with visual space, because resonance allows things to respond
to each other in a nonlinear fashion. Through resonance in a physical
system, a small activity or event can gain a great deal of energy;
for example, if I belted out a pitch that resonated with the unique acoustic
characteristics of this room, the energy of my voice would be amplified
by the environment. That's why some singers can shatter a glass with
their voice: they hit the resonant
frequency
of the glass (which is a space and contains a space), making it vibrate
to the point of shattering. Resonance is a very powerful analogy for understanding
how various types of energies and spaces operate.
Resonance is just one quality of acoustic space;
another one is simultaneity. Where visual space emphasizes linearity, acoustic
space emphasizes simultaneity—the possibility that many events that occur
in the same zone of space-
time.
In such a scheme, a subject a person, maybe organizes space by synthesizing
a variety of different events, points, images, and sources of
information
into a kind of organic totality. This isn't true in the strictest
sense, but, nonetheless, our thoughts and
perceptions
can tend towards this simultaneity: we sense many things at once, and combine
them into a coherent if fragmentary whole.
- Erik Davis - Acoustic Cyberspace lecture
This world of vibrations
is the world of resonance, a world that both music and electronics usher
us into. Resonance brings very different systems into sympathy, and amplifies
their power, almost
magically.
Growling bass drones resonate the cavities inside our chests, but music
can also set whole groups resonating in like mind. Celebrations like Earth
Dance,
during which dozens of DJs across the planet played the same
trance
track simultaneously, incarnate the deeper intuition that the DJ's ability
to get a crowd "in sync" might give way to even more powerful modes of
collective resonance in an era of instantaneous global telecommunications.
Future tribes will vibrate together across spacetime, their groupmind overtones
sprayed like graffiti onto the shifting surfaces of the
noosphere.
Future pundits are still
called "visionaries" because the market for future consciousness is still
dominated by the meat-media of vision. But the future is more intimately
known through sonics than images on the eye. We do not foresee the future;
we sound it out, like a toddler trying out a new word, or a mariner plumbing
the depths of an unknown and
infinite
sea.
- Erik Davis - _The Future Mix_
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It is possible, in a certain sense,
that all states of liberation are nothing more than perfect knowledge of the
contents of eternity. If one knows what is contained in
time
from its beginning to its end you are somehow no longer in time. Even
though you still have a body and still eat and do what you do, you have discovered
something that liberates you into a satisfying all-at-onceness. There
are other satisfactions that arise out of the theory that are not touched on
in this formulation. Times are related to each other -- things happen
for a reason and the reason is not a causal one. Resonance, that mysterious
phenomenon in which a vibrating string seems
magically
to invoke a similar vibration in another string or object that is physically
unconnected, suggested itself as a model for the mysterious property that related
one time to another even though they may be separated by days, years, or even
millenia. I became convinced that there is a
wave,
or a system of resonances, that conditions events on all levels. This
wave is
fractal
and self-referential, much like many of the most interesting new curves and
objects being described at the frontiers of research mathematics. This
timewave
is expressed throughout the universe on a number of discrete levels. It
causes atoms to be atoms, cells to be cells, minds to be minds, and stars to
be stars. What I am suggesting is a new metaphysics, a
metaphysics
with mathematical rigor; something that is not simply a new religious conviction.
Rather this insight takes the form of a formal proposition.
I would be the first to admit that it has not been possible to find a bridge between this theory and normal physics. Such a bridge may be neither possible nor necessary. We may find that normal science indicates what is possible, while the time theory I propose offers an explanation for what is. It is a theory that seems to explain how, of the class of all things possible, some events and things undergo the formality of actually occurring. It is clear to me that the theory cannot be disproven by being found inconsistent within itself. Anyone is welcome to dismantle it if they are able; this is what I have attempted to do and failed.
Terence
McKenna
_TRUE HALLUCINATIONS_
(page 171-172)
"The only thing that matters about the whole fucking universe
is the
frequency,
the resonance -- down at the atomic level holding our flesh together. They (science)
have found the frequency of the atom's vibration, everything is a constant vibration.
Sometimes I walk down the street, and think,"fuck the only thing holding our
bodies together is the valence of the different chemicals of the different atoms
in our body". Ya'know valence, attraction. I'm like fuck man -- if somebody
found a quick frequency disrupter, that's like the best weapon right there."
-
DJ
Spooky
Not so much a law of nature as a
deep habit, resonance pops up across the board, emerging in
electrical
systems, steam engines, and molecular dynamics, as well as
Tuvan
overtone chanting and the tuning of TV sets. Everything vibrates, and
when the
oscillating
vibrations of different systems coincide, or resonate, large quantities of energy
can be exchanged from one system to the other. That's why powerful singers
can shatter wine glasses by energetically belting out a tone that matches the
resonant frequency of the container, they are able to amplify the vibrations
until the vesel explodes.
- Erik davis - _Techgnosis:
Myth,
Magic
& Mysticism In The Age Of
Information_
If PK cannot be thought of as the
transmission of some kind of
force,
what terminology might better sum up the interaction of mind and matter?
In thinking that is again similar to
Bohm's,
Jahn and Dunne proposed that PK actually involves an exchange of information
between consciousness and physical
reality,
an exchange that should be thought of less as a
flow
between the mental and the material, and more as a resonance between the two.
The importance of resonance was even sensed and commented on by the volunteers
in the PK experiments, in that the most frequently mentioned factor associated
with a successful performance was the attainment of a feeling of "resonance"
with the machine. One volunteer described the feeling as "a state of immersion
in the
process
which leads to a loss of awareness of myself, I don't feel any direct control
over the device, more like a marginal influence when I'm in resonance with the
machine. It's like being in a canoe; when it goes where I want, I flow
with it. When it doesn't I try to break the flow and give it a chance
to get back in resonance with me."
- Michael Talbot -
_The
Holographic Universe_
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