source file: mills2.txt Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 17:55:29 -0800 Subject: Re: Universe and Sound From: Gary Morrison > ... or the simple part of the Hydrogen spectrum explained by Rydberg etc, > the frequency ratios are 1:4:9:16... which would be quite pleasant and .. When I commented that I doubt if the absorption frequencies of chemical elements would (taken down many octaves) have any particular significance to our ears, I elected, in the interest of brevity, not to add "unless they coincidentally match something known to be significant to our ears", like harmonic relationships. Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 02:57 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA02431; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 02:57:25 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA02429 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id RAA25599; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 17:55:53 -0800 Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 17:55:53 -0800 Message-Id: <199703112054_MC2-1270-A4F6@compuserve.com> Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu