Physics in Alchemy, the Relevance of Sound

One of the most fascinating definitions that the alchemists of the Baroque period had created to define this mysterious “movement” is “light that can be felt with the ears”, which in fact represents the true “missing link” to understanding Alchemy until the end of the Last Cooking.

One of the most fascinating definitions that the alchemists of the Baroque period had created is “light that can be felt with the ears”, which in fact represents the true “missing link” to understanding Alchemy until the end of the Last Cooking.

Surely, sound waves are far from the power of electromagnetic waves. But an alchemist would say that they are all part of the same ocean, which produces gigantic waves in the open sea and gentle undertows on the shore. Ultimately it is movement, and we observe only the effects and not the distant causes. For example, the first known sacred buildings are known for being funerary. Now it seems that archaeologists have discovered that mysterious acoustic waves seem to be “imprisoned” in ancient tombs, and that these “waves” cannot be eliminated. The Romans would have said “for everlasting memory”.

Schwaller de Lubitz, who, it should be said, had a degree in chemistry, understood that a piece was still missing from the Fulcanellis’ alchemical theory and had the intuition that it was necessary to go to Egypt to rediscover the ancient Egyptian priests’ Alchemy. We know how it went: Schwaller de Lubitz was not ashamed to say that many of his “discoveries” were based on his wife’s mediumship. This was obviously not enough to “rediscover” the ancient Egyptian Alchemy. However, the Schwallers at least intuited a way forward, that is, that the entire sequence of possible oscillations was used by the ancient alchemists. From gamma rays to infrasound. But how the ancients had managed to do it was and remains a mystery to this day. I am not surprised that “everything” could be used alchemically. In fact, the interruption of a given wavelength would have meant the interruption of the entire “private channel” between the cosmic archetype and the alchemist. We know that Schwaller de Lubitz developed a whole scale of light-sound interactions, but perhaps the author himself was not very satisfied with it.

The results of that experiment – the creation of a DNA twin by induction from a sealed container of distilled water placed next to another sealed container of distilled water, but containing the original DNA, where both were surrounded by a weak 7 Hz electromagnetic field via a solenoid. Patent US2010323391 – could give alchemical meaning to the mythologies of all time: “In the beginning was the sound”. However, alchemists know that sound was already an advanced stage of Creation.

I will only say that alchemical, theurgic, and mythological literature are full of examples that might seem the case – just think of the myths of Genesis, of a bit of all cultures.

In fact, it has also been discovered that biological cells have micro sound receptors and transmitters, which obviously cannot be compared to the macro scale of the complex receiving and transmitting apparatus of an entire living being. Ultimately, even a small cell “enjoys” sound or movement.

Indeed. We will go into more detail about the Phonon later.

Diffraction can be intuitively “read” as a request for continuity by the wave front that experiences a discontinuity from the edge (or edges) of an obstacle, and they are known to give rise to new “sources”. Interference is a phenomenon due to the superposition, at a point in space, of two or more waves, in which the resulting wave at that point may be different from the sum of the intensities associated with each single starting wave. As far as we know, they could be considered new “sources”. In fact, it is interference and diffraction that spread the waves in space.

This is what’s called difference frequency generation. When two ultrasonic beams of slightly different frequencies, say 40 kHz and 39.5 kHz, overlap, they create a new sound wave, in this case 0.5 kHz, that people can hear. However, the sound can only be heard where the beams cross, while outside of that the ultrasonic waves remain silent. The researchers were able to narrow down where the sound is perceived by creating localized pockets of sound zones, called “audible enclaves”. They did this by using self-bending ultrasound beams, made of specialized materials called acoustic metasurfaces,

“The key phenomenon at play is what’s called difference frequency generation.” When two ultrasonic beams of slightly different frequencies, say 40 kHz and 39.5 kHz, overlap, they create a new sound wave, in this case 0.5 kHz, that people can hear. However, the sound can only be heard where the beams cross, with the ultrasonic waves remaining silent outside. The researchers were able to narrow down where the sound is perceived by creating localized pockets of sound zones, called “audible enclaves.” They did this by using ultrasound beams that can self-bend, thanks to specialized materials called acoustic metasurfaces. This means that it is possible to transmit the sound to a specific person or location without anyone else being able to hear. So far, researchers have managed to propagate the sound to a distance of about one meter from the target and reach a volume of about 60 decibels, equal to that of a conversation.

Interesting question…

Indeed. It was also called “echo”, even if it wasn’t a very fitting metaphor. Today we could call it a strange sound entanglement. But to better clarify what I mean I will quote an epigram from the Greek Anthology of Agathias Scholasticus: “A man is said to have asked the musician Androtion, an expert lyre player, the reason for the resonance between the nete and the hypate, claiming to be marvelous at how nature had established a bond of sympathy between taut and lifeless strings. To which Androtion, swearing that not even Aristoxenus had an answer, is said to have argued that the real reason lies in the fact that, since the strings come from the same sheep intestine and were all dried together, they behave like sisters, and resonate as if they were related, sharing the same family voice, since they are all legitimate daughters, born from the same womb.”

You will understand it at the end of the Last Cooking of the Philosophical Egg.

I don’t have an answer.