How to sing like a planet (Mark Morford column)

[MorningGlow]

How to sing like a planet
Scientists say the Earth is humming. Not just noise, but a deep, astonishing music. Can you hear it?
By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist

This is the kind of thing we forget.

This is the kind of thing that, given all our distractions, our celeb obsessions and happy drugs and bothersome trifles like family and bills and war and health care and sex and love and porn and breathing and death, tends to fly under the radar of your overspanked consciousness, only to be later rediscovered and brought forth and placed directly in front of your eyeballs, at least for a moment, so you can look, really look, and go, oh my God, I had no idea.

The Earth is humming. Singing. Churning out a tune without the aid of battery or string or wind-up mechanism and its song is ethereal and mystifying and very, very weird, a rather astonishing, newly discovered phenomena that's not easily analyzed, but which, if you really let it sink into your consciousness, can change the way you look at everything.

Indeed, scientists now say the planet itself is generating a constant, deep thrum of noise. No mere cacophony, but actually a kind of music, huge, swirling loops of sound, a song so strange you can't really fathom it, so low it can't be heard by human ears, chthonic roars churning from the very water and wind and rock themselves, countless notes of varying vibration creating all sorts of curious tonal phrases that bounce around the mountains and spin over the oceans and penetrate the tectonic plates and gurgle in the magma and careen off the clouds and smack into trees and bounce off your ribcage and spin over the surface of the planet in strange circular loops, "like dozens of lazy hurricanes," as one writer put it.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/04/23/notes042308.DTL&nl=fix

Hee. I love it when science "catches up" to us.
:rofl:

[I Have A Dream]

1. That is so very sweet. Thank you so much for posting it, MG.

:)

[MorningGlow]

2. It definitely got me choked up, as all Great Truths do

Music of the spheres...I can hear it sometimes when I'm half asleep. It's breathtaking (of course).

And trust Mark Morford to tackle the topic. I just love his stuff. :hi:

[Why Syzygy]

3. The old hymn comes to mind >

This is my Father's world,
and to my listening ears
all nature sings, and round me rings
the music of the spheres.
This is my Father's world:
I rest me in the thought
of rocks and trees, of skies and seas;
his hand the wonders wrought.

Rest in the thought. mmm

[WhiteTara]

4. This is called the Tenth Dimension Theory

and someone just today asked me what the others were...I got to the 4th - time - and maybe the 5th is the wrinkle in time (or is that scifi?) .. any help here?

[Why Syzygy]

5. Finally got a chance to read the whole article.

Love this part (what is "GOD">

Maybe she's actually, you know, a throb, a pulse, a song, deep, complex, eternal. And us, well, we're just bouncing and swaying along as best we can, trying to figure out the goddamn melody.

[alterfurz]

6. and the beat goes on...

Dancing in the dark/Till the tune ends.
We're dancing in the dark/And it soon ends.
We're waltzing in the wonder/Of why we're here.
--music by Arthur Schwartz, lyrics Howard Dietz

We seldom hear the inner music, but we're all dancing to it nonetheless. -- Rumi