Re: Does light have any sound ???

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From: Ndlzc Daol Tcom dlzc
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 00:21

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Dear PD:

"PD" <TheDraperFamily@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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>
> Tristan Beeline wrote:
>> I wonder if light sounds like good music , Bach or
>> Wagner for example or if it sounds like Michael
>> Jackson or if it's just noise.
>
> Light *does* 'sound' like good music. You just detect
> the 'sound' with your eyes instead of with your ears.
> If you look at a lovely painting, you are seeing the
> music of light.
>
> Seriously.
>
> Both are waves, a combination of different
> frequencies overlapping. The organs of our ears are
> designed to be sensitive to one kind of wave, and
> our eyes are designed to be sensitive to another
> kind of wave.

There was a little news story about people that "see" sound. 
Something in neural processing causes tones to be perceived also 
as colors.  I wonder if the reverse has been noted to happen?

David A. Smith

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