Vibrations everywhere

  • All things in our universe are constantly in motion, vibrating. Even objects that appear to be stationary are in fact vibrating, oscillating, resonating, at various frequencies.
  • Resonance is a type of motion, characterized by oscillation between two states.
  • Something interesting happens when different vibrating things come together: They will often start, after a little while, to vibrate together at the same frequency. They “sync up,” sometimes in ways that can seem mysterious. This is described as the phenomenon of spontaneous self organisation.
  • When fireflies of certain species come together in large gatherings, they start flashing in sync, in ways that can still seem a little mystifying.
  • Lasers are produced when photons of the same power and frequency sync up.
  • The moon’s rotation is exactly synced with its orbit around the Earth such that we always see the same face.
  • Examining resonance leads to potentially deep insights about the nature of consciousness and about the universe more generally.
  • Neuroscientists have identified sync in their research, too. Large-scale neuron firing occurs in human brains at measurable frequencies with mammalian consciousness thought to be commonly associated with various kinds of neuronal sync.
  • Various electrical patterns sync in the brain to produce different types of human consciousness.
  • Gamma waves are associated with large-scale coordinated activities like perception, meditation or focused consciousness; beta with maximum brain activity or arousal; and theta with relaxation or daydreaming. These three wave types work together to produce, or at least facilitate, various types of human consciousness.
  • But the exact relationship between electrical brain waves and consciousness is still very much up for debate.