RE: PLANCK CONSTANT

Gary Morrison wrote,

>}Based upon what I do know of the topic, here's the answer: Unlike in
>}light, there's no simple correlation between higher vibratory frequencies
>}in an audio system and higher energy. Light is an absolutely direct form
>}of energy, whereas sound is a much more complicated and round-about
>}physical manifestation of energy. It involves pressure in a medium, which
>}is based upon collisions of randomly-moving molecules in the medium, and so
>}forth. So you can't apply that equation to audio; the wavelength (nu)
>}term in "E = H nu" doesn't apply to sound waves.
>
>Gary, this is not correct. E = H nu applies to all energy quanta, whether in
>the form of light, sound, or whatever. The quantum of light is the photon;
>the quantum of sound is the phonon. Just as sound can be viewed as
>oscillations in a medium, so can light -- the medium is the electromagnetic
>field. This wave-particle duality is quite unbelievable to anyone who has not
>studied quantum mechanics in depth; for those of us who have, the duality is
>easy to accept, but there are deeper mysteries that take its place (my
>favorite subject besides tuning).


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Subject: motherlode?
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On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, Paul H. Erlich wrote:
> Firstly, my apologies to Paul H., it appears he already corrected
> himself. His correction is correct.

My apologies to Paul E., whom I corrected to point out that I had
already corrected myself without first reading ahead to find out that he
had already corrected himself about my having corrected myself . . . 8-)>

> Now, where did this "motherload" thread start? Off the list? I can't
> figure out what you guys are talking about.

I think it spun off another thread when somebody referred to some scale
being a motherload/lode for some consonances or other, and someone else
corrected his spelling.

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From: Paul Hahn
Subject: Re: motherlode?
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On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, Paul H. Erlich wrote:
> Now, where did this "motherload" thread start? Off the list? I can't
> figure out what you guys are talking about.

>From this paragraph of Carl Lumma's, article title "Comma shift and the
speed of the galaxy":

: And you can't deny that there's a motherload of beauty to be found in music
: where the vertical sonorities come from a different pitch set than the
: horizontal ones. The horizontal pitch set holds everything together, while
: it is turned 81 shades of purple by the changing harmonies.

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From: mr88cet@texas.net (Gary Morrison)
Subject: Re: motherload
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