Secrets of Cymatics

"Secrets of Cymatics" is an inspirational presentation by acoustic-physics researcher, John Stuart Reid, filmed at the Water Conference, Sofia, Bulgaria, October 2016, on the physics, chemistry and biology of water. The title of the talk was originally "The Holographic Properties of Water" and focuses on the CymaScope instrument and the emergent science of Cymatics, including significant implications for medical science and positing the first two laws of Cymatics.

[beingone]

More Questions:
1. You are using devices to generate perfect tones with very very low THD values, do you get less desirable results with higher THD values? Is there like a "cut off" THD value where the CymaGlyph doesn't form?

2. What happens when you use complex ordered vibration (aka music) as a signal injected into a body of water surrounded by a boundary - what sort of CymaGlyph do you get? The musician in me is DYING to know lol!

3. Does the frame rate of your image capture device affect the quality of your photographs? So lets say the frame rate of the image capture device is 44.4Hz while the signal injected into the water is 22.2Hz would that change your results?

4. What happens if the water is pressurized, or the temperature is raised just to below boiling or lowered to about 3.98°C when it's density increases?

5. What happens if say the area/volume of the boundary is increased while the frequency is kept the same?

Can I email you? - I apologize, I have SO MANY Questions - you folks just blew my mind with this - Wow!

[beingone]

Thank you for posting this!  🤗

I am a musician and an engineer with a background in advanced physics, chemistry and biology (my favorite is physics). I've been fascinated by the work of Hans Jennys - Long ago I realized that looking at vibrating matter making cool shapes on a metal plate is merely looking at a 2 dimensional snapshot of a dynamic 3 dimensional event.

What you have done is amazing - taking a picture of a vibrating water at 22.2Hz - Makes me wonder what these shapes would look like with say dynamic classical music.

Can computers model such a thing accurately in 3D?

[exitparadise]

this stuff feels new but at the same time, I feel like we've always known this (egyptians?). beautiful nonetheless. absolutely

[KRV]

Cymatics has been really interesting to me as a side research project. I was really intrigued by the discovery of turning sound into an image through your devices, as before these discoveries I could not put into words the true "magic" of sound. Now, perhaps, we may see sound more often in addition to hearing and feeling it, and this science could give us a clearer picture about exactly why certain emotions are aroused depending on the type of sound we hear. Also, I want to use the quote about the Holographic Principle: "Audible sound and all frequencies of electromagnetism are spherical in their space-form" and the phrases "sound-bubbles, or, light-bubbles" as a direct inspiration for an art piece in my studies. May I?

[lisan.]

Thank you so much John, for sharing this talk online. Although this is not my field of science I could follow the essence very easily. This is so exciting or flabbergasting as you put it most accurately. I am so excited about your future work and all the applications that come out of it. Again a BIG THANK YOU!

[vortexnectar]

I'm more interested in the trefoil-like band that causes the Vortex/Sound to exist. These stationary vortexes are what's giving the shape of the Cymatic geometric shapes. I think it's the male and female aspect of it that comes into play: The Female being the outer spheres, the shapes we're seeing, and the male part being that illusive trefoil-like toroidal band that is turning inside to out at such an intensity and rate. The latter being a result of friction.

[kalliyoga]

The patterns, they look like the flower of life - the basis of how consciousness replicates itself - yes?

[ursus]

My mind is completely blown. I have been a sound healer for many years, and have yearned for definitive science that shows what I have known to be true. THANK YOU! I look forward to what's to continue to come. Please let me know if there is anyway i can get more involved.! Super wow.

[kalliyoga]

Great presentation. As a singer I also know that singing with others or alone, changes my own frequency.
If consciousness is the unified field Einstein looked for and the field on which all is illuminated, it seems that all of this fit sin;
matter appears with different frequencies and is basically spacious. And water seems to hold much information. So may questions arise form this! Thank you.

[gatorhunter]

So glad I found you. Been looking for this very thing a long time.

[brian.josephson]

Very interesting phenomenon, which I've referred to in a paper I've just submitted. The Faraday instability you referred to suggests non-linearity is involved. I don't though find it mysterious that long wave sounds produce shorter wave patterns, as these would be related to the vibrational modes of your system, and the spectrum of the sound would determine the way all the different vibrational modes would overlap. The reproduction of the original scene in the cymascope suggests that this is similar to an optical hologram but with far less information available.

[aibrainlet]

Amazing. Have you ever heard of the mother chord? I wonder what cymatics would be created by a highly, if not that the most complex, tonal configuration humans can conjure together

[latessahodgson]

Does this mean using water and light could be used to produce holographic images/videos potentially??

[the-house-of-flying-knives]

This makes sense, and explains a lot.

[justinpierchala]

John, thank you for your presentation of this material it is very enlightening. may I ask, I have recently seen that a researcher who was given access to the great pyramid at Giza, after restoring the broken corner of the vessel, did some sound experiments in the Kings Chamber. Do you know of this and can you elaborate?

[johnetone]

Great ideas and presentation John! Do you think that octaves are also holographic in nature? for example, can we transpose some of the sounds being used in ultrasonic therapy into the audible frequency bands and expect similar results? Thanks for sharing this information! So much YES!!!

[mrtorotek]

Just say you are removing the boundary/boundary condition/ walls/ wall conditions of the dish, but nice description.

[NEVUoficial]

Thank you for posting this. It's very interesting...

[mrtorotek]

fuck me, that's a lot to flabbergasting knowledge to grasp.