Rhiannon
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This week's theory
Feb 17, 2012, 08:48
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/feb/16/stonehenge-based-magical-auditory-illusion
"If you have a sound source in the middle of Stonehenge, and you walk around the outside of the big stones, what you experience is alternating loud and soft, loud and soft, loud and soft as you alternately pass by the gaps and the stone, the gaps and the stone,"
No really. Amazing. That must be the reason why they built it like that.
Stonehenge. Always there for a slow news day.
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Sanctuary
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Re: This week's theory
Feb 17, 2012, 09:14
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Rhiannon wrote: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/feb/16/stonehenge-based-magical-auditory-illusion
"If you have a sound source in the middle of Stonehenge, and you walk around the outside of the big stones, what you experience is alternating loud and soft, loud and soft, loud and soft as you alternately pass by the gaps and the stone, the gaps and the stone,"
No really. Amazing. That must be the reason why they built it like that.
Stonehenge. Always there for a slow news day.
Staggering and so simple...why didn't we all think of that :-)
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tjj
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Edited Feb 17, 2012, 09:34
Re: This week's theory
Feb 17, 2012, 10:32
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I'm reminded of Paul Devereaux's Landscape-Perception project http://www.landscape-perception.com/archaeoacoustics/
Perhaps this is part of the same as I notice Timothy Darvill has commented. I agree with his view.
Timothy Darvill, professor of archaeology at Bournemouth University, said that while sound played an important role in events at Stonehenge, the monument was probably not designed with acoustics in mind.
"The main structure is a replica in stone of what was normally built in wood," he said. "They used the same techniques. The positioning of the main components is all about the construction of a framework, a building if you like, as the setting for ritual adventures that included the use of the bluestones brought over from Wales."
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Moth
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Re: This week's theory
Feb 17, 2012, 17:10
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Rhiannon wrote: No really. Amazing.
Hahahaha!!!!
Nice one, Rhiannon!
love
Moth
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PMM
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Re: This week's theory
Feb 17, 2012, 21:38
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You can achieve the same effect at a fraction of the effort by alternating between having your hands over your ears, and not having your hands over your ears.
http://www.viz.co.uk/toptips.html
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thesweetcheat
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Re: This week's theory
Feb 17, 2012, 21:45
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Rhiannon wrote: "If you have a sound source in the middle of Stonehenge, and you walk around the outside of the big stones, what you experience is alternating loud and soft, loud and soft, loud and soft
Ideal for the Pixies then.
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scubi63
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Re: This week's theory
Feb 17, 2012, 23:38
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Rhiannon wrote:
"If you have a sound source in the middle of Stonehenge, and you walk around the outside of the big stones, what you experience is alternating loud and soft, loud and soft, loud and soft as you alternately pass by the gaps and the stone, the gaps and the stone,"
Are the sure it not actually soft and loud and soft and loud....actually, if you ran around it you would get sounds at different pitches depending how fast you went and the varying gaps would provide an effect similar to travelling in a car with the windows open..maybe there is a hidden message only heard at a particular speed?...or better still, maybe giant sails rolled around on top on the lintels from which the people could dangle down and be spun around instead of running and listen to the sounds emanating from the centre...or maybe they just ground corn with rollers attached to the sails instead. We all love a good theory..the possibilities are endless!!
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tiompan
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Re: This week's theory
Feb 17, 2012, 23:51
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PMM wrote: You can achieve the same effect at a fraction of the effort by alternating between having your hands over your ears, and not having your hands over your ears.
http://www.viz.co.uk/toptips.html
It never occurred to me that VIZ had a web site , brilliant ,thank you .
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moss
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Re: This week's theory
Feb 18, 2012, 09:24
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Rhiannon wrote:
No really. Amazing. That must be the reason why they built it like that.
Stonehenge. Always there for a slow news day.
16 million hits for Stonehenge on a casual check, always in the limelight, for better or worse. But it had other uses, I read the other day in White's History of Selborne that daws (jackdaws) nested in the interstices between the stones... Now there's a thought, carrion crow waiting for the latest victim to be sacrificed.
Only a theory of course.
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Toni Torino
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Re: This week's theory
Feb 20, 2012, 13:25
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Rhiannon wrote: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/feb/16/stonehenge-based-magical-auditory-illusion
"If you have a sound source in the middle of Stonehenge, and you walk around the outside of the big stones, what you experience is alternating loud and soft, loud and soft, loud and soft as you alternately pass by the gaps and the stone, the gaps and the stone,"
No really. Amazing. That must be the reason why they built it like that.
Stonehenge. Always there for a slow news day.
Stonehenge is so obviously a giant alien zoetrope.
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