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| May 16, 2016 at 10:22 | comment | added | CuriousOne | @StéphaneRollandin: You are absolutely right. Vibrations have literally "played" a major role in the entire history of humanity, most likely way, way back even before any kind of recorded history existed. It just reminded me of the "music of the spheres", ideas which seem to go back to, at least, Pythagoras! Oh, I just saw that anna_v cited that, already. I wasn't aware that it goes under "musica universalis".. so I've learned something new, today, and I actually think that anna_v may be getting the closest to the answer of the historic question. | |
| May 16, 2016 at 9:59 | comment | added | Stéphane Rollandin | @CuriousOne. Oh yes it goes way back. Actually if we look at it in terms of practices, vibration as an universal and spiritually meaningful phenomenon is at least as old as music itself. | |
| May 16, 2016 at 9:54 | comment | added | CuriousOne | @StéphaneRollandin: I don't know. That the quantum ground state is "vibrating" is false, of course, but that notion did make it into a sheer endless number of even scientific publications, I am afraid. I still suspect that it goes actually way back to the 19th century and that somebody may know the origins. As for "new age", that is, in my opinion, the third or fourth rehash of such notions, which can probably be traced back into the 17th century or even earlier. People were "experimenting" with spiritual energy for a long time. | |
| May 16, 2016 at 9:49 | comment | added | Stéphane Rollandin | @CuriousOne. Then I guess the "everything is in a state of constant vibration" does not come from physics as we know it, but instead is a new-age cliché probably based on the interpretation of the Om mantra sound as the fundamental frequency of spiritual energy. Just google "Om mantra sound" and see what you get... | |
| May 16, 2016 at 9:31 | comment | added | Stéphane Rollandin | @CuriousOne. Wow, I actually completely missed the point of the question. Incredible how blind one can be at times... | |
| May 16, 2016 at 9:20 | comment | added | CuriousOne | @StéphaneRollandin: I can't answer the question "What led to this statement?", which I believe is more historic in nature than physical. Even so, I up-voted the question and I hope we can get an answer. I would like to know, too. | |
| May 16, 2016 at 9:17 | comment | added | Stéphane Rollandin | @CuriousOne. It's a pity you did not make these comments of yours an answer, because it would have been a very good one. | |
| May 16, 2016 at 5:09 | comment | added | anna v | It is an ancient idea, the music of the spheres en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musica_universalis . Maybe, if strings do become the theory of everything, it will be a future one. | |
| May 16, 2016 at 0:59 | answer | added | DevilApple227 | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 16, 2016 at 0:51 | answer | added | Billy Jean | timeline score: -3 | |
| May 15, 2016 at 21:51 | comment | added | CuriousOne | It just occurred to me that I should have been a little more careful with the phrase "always". If we have small pieces of matter then the modes of the phonon spectrum (i.e. the quantized lattice vibrations) will be spaced fairly widely. I am nearly certain that ultra-low temperature experiments can "freeze" at least nano-particles to the point where even the lowest phonon mode is essentially unpopulated, i.e. for all practical purposes the vibration would have stopped. | |
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| May 15, 2016 at 21:36 | comment | added | CuriousOne | I can't tell you the historical answer (which does not belong onto this site, to begin with), but the logical argument from basic physics would probably start with the third law of thermodynamics, which states that no physical system can attain a temperature of $T=0K$, which means that some vibrational degrees of freedom are always excited thermally. | |
| May 15, 2016 at 21:33 | history | asked | Mafuyai M.Yaks | CC BY-SA 3.0 |