i spent a very enjoyable math binge day learning about waves and what i learned is that waves are extremely fucked up
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wifi relies on radio waves! there are international regulations on which parts of the radio spectrum people are allowed to use!! it is *illegal* to emit too many *photons of certain frequencies* because you might *interfere with the photons people are using to download porn*
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brainwaves are real! i thought they were a metaphor for some reason!! here's a picture
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the range of human hearing is apparently between 20 Hz and 20 kHz. humans can hear sound waves oscillating *twenty thousand times a second*!!
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chladni figures are fucked. i can tell you what theorems justify their existence but they're still fucked. i am not okay
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anyway this tweet was very inspirational i thought about it a lot so thank you
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what's the deal with people noticing that everything is vibrations and then deciding that means they should become vegan or collect crystals instead of learning signal processing theory
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okay FYI this particular flavor of hippie ended up as a First Amendment case before the Supreme Court and it's DELIGHTFUL
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fascinating, thank you!
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summum's wikipedia article has some amazing sentences
also these seven aphorisms are not bad honestly
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summum
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anyway I loved "Everything vibrates" so much I borrowed it for the title of a law review article about electromagnetic side-channel attacks
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i am happy that this exists