Khufu's Beat Lab in the Great Pyramid 🧵

When talking in the king's chamber, one quickly notices how speech becomes unintelligible in this unusually reverberative space. Even the granite sarcophagus is sonorous.

This chamber likely served a sole purpose - sonic rebirth rituals It is believed Khufu's pyramid at Giza was constructed during a 47 year period, circa 2,572 - 2,585 B.C.

Some perspective about its enormity and scale:

(Left) - 100 feet away
(Top right) - Pyramid's entrance
(Bottom right) - Vertical slice graphic showing chamber's position

The Life Cymatic 🧵

As organic matter formed deep in Earth's oceans, it's likely that as sound interacted with these compounds, cymatic forces provided the sonic scaffolding and organized life into microscopic and macroscopic structures.

Prep your scuba gear for a deep dive 🤿 Our underwater journey takes us 7,758 meters (25,453 feet) deep into the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

A series of hydrothermal vents runs along this mid-ocean ridge, where hydrocarbons - life's building blocks - are spontaneously formed due to the pressure and temperature.

C.R.E.A.M. (Cymatics Rule Everything Around Me)

"Wherever sound and matter interact, there is always a tendency toward structure and form, and this cymatic principle applies across all scales, even to the birth of the Universe."

A 🧵 on how sound and cymatics shape the cosmos: Galaxies are not distributed randomly throughout the universe, but organized in clusters.

In the paper ‘The Egg-Carton Universe’, the researchers believed that super clusters and voids were arranged into octahedral structures:

The CymaScope is a laboratory instrument invented by acoustics engineer John Stuart Reid. It displays the inherent geometries within sound by imprinting the vibrations onto pure water.

A recording of a Barred Owl call viewed through the CymaScope: The CymaScope.

On the left is an extremely precise analog oscillator, the small petri dish looking is called the "visualizing cell" is filled with pure water, and the piston above goes down to a voice coil motor.

Simply - This makes sound visible by imprinting it onto water.

The vibe has shifted. A 🧵 on Cymatics - the study of visible effects of sound. Although this field has been mired in woo-woo, it's a real phenomenon that reveals the underlying order of reality and has profound implications.

The complex beauty of a woman singing diatonically: In 1632, the great Galileo Galilei was the earliest to record that an oscillating body displays regular patterns.

As you can see from the video below, it's not hard to imagine the ancients discovering this long before him with their primitive tools:

https://twitter.com/tedgioia/status/1327511170190864384?s=20&t=u57O2z6j9WFtlDgo8PXFwQ

This is a really interesting thread.

I always thought technology that utilizes ultra-low frequencies between 3-10Hz would be used for something like collapsing bridges and buildings or making someone nauseous, but not controlling brainwaves.

https://twitter.com/dulcebasefiles/status/1533434965311905792

When people who work in office buildings get IBS, often it's because they sit below/near a large air conditioning unit that's vibrating around 15-30Hz that's slowly, but powerfully shaking their room. This perpetual vibration disturbs the contents of their stomach, causing IBS.

"Fully in...and letting go."

The Wim Hof breathing method is a simple and powerful way to tap into the ancient part of our brains for: increased energy and willpower, reduced stress levels, and a stronger immune system regardless of your age or fitness level.

A 🧵 about it: "Iceman" Wim has performed amazing feats that demonstrate the effectiveness of his method including: arctic swims, hiking Mount Everest half-naked, and fighting off an injection of E. coli.

He is a true viking with several world records in extreme athleticism.

"The move projector is an Apollonian straightshooter, demonstrating the link between aggression and art."
~C. Paglia

For $1600, you can set up a nice home theatre with: a projector, 5.1 sound system, screen, curtains, and acoustic panels. In this thread I'll share some ideas: First - Why a projector instead of a TV?

Watching a TV is basically staring at a lightbulb and thus, bad for your vision.

Also, the scale of your projector on a 9 foot screen with surround sound is a much more impactful viewing experience.

Beginning Disc Golf - A Thread

Disc golf is played like traditional golf, except you throw a disc at a metal pin, instead of hitting a ball with a club into a hole. It is one of the most natural sports, as it incorporates elements such as: trees, rivers, & lakes into the game. It's as fun as it is challenging for all ages and athletic levels. There are lots of courses to play at all over the world and most courses are free to play at.

You can locate your local course using a maps service or with the UDisc smartphone app.

Frank Lloyd Wright - Midwest Residential and Usonian🧵

FLW, a Wisconsin native, preached organic architecture as the modern ideal. He was a visionary talent who designed buildings that harmoniously integrated with nature and had human function as the primary objective. Wright welcomed the design challenges of the New World. Philosophically, he saw an attempt to strictly use Old World design as inauthentic and forced; America's landscape needed it's own design. Nearly all his houses were sustainably constructed with locally sourced materials.