Music to the Ears

Have you ever considered the uniqueness of music?  Think about it.  Music has a fixed number of sounds on the music scale.  But those sounds remain the same even when going up or down an octave.  And that up and down process can go until the human ear can no longer hear the sounds produced.

Consider too the infinite number of songs that can be produced from a finite number of notes.  By varying one note, by raising an octave, by changing the instrument used to produce the sounds and more, the songs created can become infinite.  There's really no end to how much sound and music can be produced by this God-given gift.  Mind-boggling!

Mind Boggling Neuro-Synaptical Destroyers

Ponder these mind-blowing statements.

What do you think?

1. If you could see through everything, you would be blind.
2. Without using any known color, try to invent a new color.
3. If time were to suddenly stop and then start again, no matter how long a period of time, would we ever know it?
4. When something gets bleached, where does the color go?
5. Can you draw peripheral vision?
6. If there was gravity in space where would all the celestial bodies fall to?
7. If everything was two-dimensional, would distant things look close?
8. If we saw one-dimensionally, everything would be a line.
9. What if your hair bled? (Want a hair cut?)
10. Since a black hole absorbs all light, is the interior of this former star, now collapsed and condensed to an extreme degree, illuminated with a brilliance of light from all the light that it has absorbed? How could you prove this as either true or false?
11. Is it possible to explain sight to a person who was born blind? How would you do it since all your explanations would be based on sight, as you know it?
12. While drawing on a piece of paper in bright light, try to use the writing utensil in your hand to outline the shadow formed by that same writing instrument.
13. Try to video tape a mirror so that when the tape is replayed on your VCR you will be able to look into the TV screen and see yourself in the mirror you filmed.
14. No matter how hard you try to think of absolutely nothing, you will always be thinking of something. (Even if you were thinking of nothing, nothing is the absence of something, therefore you're thinking of something!)
15. If you were riding in an airplane, and you sat in front of the engines, and then the plane flew faster than the speed of sound, would you hear anything?
16. If you are literate, try to look at a set of words in your language without recognizing or reading any of them.
17. Do blind people dream? If so, what do they see?
18. If time didn't exist, we'd be dead!
19. If you could travel the same speed as the rotation of the earth, but in the opposite direction, thereby always keeping the sun in the same position overhead, no matter where you were on the face of the earth, the time would always be the same.

So, any thoughts?

Smellevision? Who Nose When?

How long before another major milestone in technology is reached? I'm talking about the ability to send smell over the airwaves or place them on digital media.

Years ago the ability to put sound on various mediums was reached. Then visual images. Next, smell. Imagine the possibilities when that milestone is reached! Picture the scene! A breakfast with hot bacon, fresh bread, fried eggs and ham. Or wandering on the beach and the scent of salty air filling your nose. How about the aroma of perfume wafting through your living room as you watch a movie with people attending a dinner party? Or the smells while you watch the Food Channel?

Then again, what about wandering through a garbage dump? How about the decay of a rotting animal as you view the Outdoor Channel? The smell of a skunk as it crosses the road or the odor of a chemical plant during a high-speed chase scene?

The potential is limitless. How soon before our olfactory senses are part of the movie experience? What do you think? Five, ten, fifteen years? Or less? Smellevision will debut sometime, but who nose when?

Infinite Input. Finite Space.

A computer has a finite amount of storage space whether it be one megabyte or one terabyte. But there is a point where it gets full.

On the other hand, your finite brain is different. It never gets full. It processes information, purges what it doesn't need and stores other useful information. Yet, despite the daily dose of auditory, visual, olfactory and tactile sensory input, the brain always has room to store more. Every day you see new things, encounter new situations or live new experiences. You read new books, see new movies, make new friends, go new places, and yet, you can recall them at a later date with relative ease. The brain stores them and doesn't get full, no matter how much is poured in.

If computer memories had the same abilities, what an amazing machine that would be. But only the human mind has been created with that potential and ability. Wow! Now that's something to think about!

A Whole Glob of Colored Waves

Think of all the various waves that surround us. Radio waves, microwaves, electro-magnetic waves, light waves and more. The list goes on and on. Now imagine if all of those waves that exist outside of the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum could be seen. Let's assign a different color to each "invisible" wave. What would you see? A potpourri of colored lines intertwining and swirling through the air. So many would exist that it is doubtful that you could even see where you were going. Fortunately for us, we only see a tiny fraction of the waves that exist. Otherwise, we'd probably be be "blind" to everything around us!

Feline Freakiness

Cats

Staring at nothing. Freaking you out.

Sleeping. Always.

Stretching. Claws like knives slicing the air.

Running. Like elephants. Loud. Like bugs. Silent.

Attacking your legs. Without warning. Scaring you to death.

Chasing anything that moves. Shredding. Attacking. Killing. Sleeping.

Climbing to the highest point. Watching the world below.

Condescending.

Better than all others.

Obedient, when they want. Rarely.

Controlling their surroundings.

Revenge as needed.

Strange, lovable creatures. Trouble-makers of fuzz.

Magnetic Minds?

Consider this tidbit. Your mind uses electro-chemical means to store memories. Synapses, dendrites, axions and other scientific labels describe parts of the brain.

But imagine if your brain stored information like a computer or other electro-mechanical device. A computer hard drive can be erased or severely damaged if exposed to a strong magnetic field. Imagine if your brain were as sensitive? What a mess the human race would be! Walk past a substation or near an MRI machine and poof! Your memory is scrambled or gone. Life would be short-lived at best if extreme safety measures weren't employed.

Aren't you glad you don't have a magnetic, digitized, randomly accessed memory controlled by ones and zeroes?