I’ve always wondered about all the things that are unknown to the human, some of which will never be known. for eg we all know that there’s hundreds of colors unknown to us because we can’t see it. We all know that dogs are dichromatic with limited color vision and other organisms like seals, dolphins, whales, sea lion, walruses are monochromatic and how the other, for eg trichromatic means nothing to them because it is totally unknown to them. I’ll give you one more example — To a bee, flowers glow with colors we humans cannot see. A red flower may seem blue or purple to the bee. This is possible because bees can see ultraviolet light that is invisible to us humans. We are also aware that humans cannot hear ultrasonic and infrasonic sounds while some other organisms can. So in the same way just think about all the things that’s possibly happening around you, the creature that might be near you, the smell of a certain thing, the sound, the traces or evidence of an unknown object or creature, perhaps an alien or the dead, or the ability to see energy around us, ability to feel the vibrations and electric field of objects, and things, things that you cannot see, hear, feel or don’t even know the term for it because a certain organ of some sort is missing in order to interpret…the thing.
So I was watching this video where Neil deGrasse Tyson talks about the stuff that keeps him awake at night and realized that it’s almost similar to what keeps me up at night and after watching that I’m more curious to know about it…or I’ll lose my mind. But again, the killjoy part and the grounding thing about stuff like these is that the more you know about it the more you realize that you know nothing about it so I’ll go insane either way so it doesn’t matter really. I’d rather go insane contemplating about the unknown rather than be in a state of mental inertia. So anyway, in his words he talks about “This ‘dark energy’ of some sort that’s gonna render the universe so large, having accelerated so significantly that all the galaxies of the night-sky will have accelerated beyond our horizon…and all the galaxies are the source of our knowledge of the cosmology, of the big bang, and everything we know about the history of the universe comes from these galaxies. If they accelerate beyond our horizon, the next generation of cosmic explorers will only have the stars of the milky way to think about. So, there would’ve been an entire chapter of the universe ripped from their view. And they’ll be trying to contemplate an understanding of the universe without a significant part of what its past was. And so I lose sleep wondering, today, was there some previous chapter ripped from the universe itself? And here we are touching the elephant, not knowing that in fact there’s an elephant standing there…or maybe there’s the shadow of the elephant, and the elephant has been moved. We don’t know what we don’t know.”
Now talking about sounds.. It’s something that’s always fascinated me. I wish my theory wasn’t weak and I had paid attention in school but I never found most of the stuff fascinating or remotely interesting then. Perhaps it was because of the way schools function. (will talk about it on one of my next) Anyway sounds — Sound is a vast concept that has the power to change human emotions, mind, how it can be meditative and irksome and how it can make humans take certain actions and all of that just depending on the range one chooses to render and it can even change the world, for the better or the worse with the help of it’s tools like language and speech. But what really fascinates me are the sounds that’s inaudible to us humans. The infrasonic and the ultrasonic…and perhaps even the unknown something-sonic. It’s fascinating how these sounds can have an effect on human emotions, without us even being aware of it. For example the infrasonic and ultrasonic sounds used in certain scene in movies that precisely makes us feel a certain emotions like anxiety, happiness, sadness, regret or everything all at once and to our astonishment, even when that certain scene in the movie isn’t that significant. And then talking about the sounds that we can hear and how certain sounds and certain sound frequencies has effect on human emotions like binaural beats which, in a nutshell, connects or synchronizes your left brain to the right and changes the brain waves and encourages positivity, relaxation, help with anxiety etc. and the infamous 432hz and how Mozart used it who’s compositions now are considered relaxing and a lot of students are using it to concentrate and how they can apparently make you “smarter” by just listening to it. If you ask me personally, I don’t believe in the latter claim and I’d much rather listen to Chopin or Beethoven over Mozart when I feel like it’s the right environment or I’m in the right state of mind for relaxation, reflectiveness, and positivity. Okay maybe not positivity.
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