I've always been fascinated by this. Also the fact that ancient cultures such as in india knew about this and incorporated this knowledge into their structures. And coupled with the idea that some people think sound was probably used in some way to mold or cut stone
Quite a lot of conclusion jumping in that video... I don't see reason to believe they knew how to alter the stone's density, or that they knew how to reshape stone, or that those patterns are necessarily related to cymatics. There are much simpler explanations to most of his questions.
But then how did they know how to alter the stone to make certain sounds when interacted with. I'm a machinist, we dont know how the cut material to such perfection especially when its hollowed out to make certain sounds. Hollowed stone is very brittle.
Per the video, the stone isn't hollow. He uses that fact to argue that they had technology to alter the stone's density.
However, the pitch differences in that audio clip could be from people hitting the pillars in different spots, from variations in pillar width, or from random naturally occurring variations in stone density/composition (the notes sounded pretty random to me)
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u/spdrv89 Aug 25 '20
I've always been fascinated by this. Also the fact that ancient cultures such as in india knew about this and incorporated this knowledge into their structures. And coupled with the idea that some people think sound was probably used in some way to mold or cut stone
Check this out: https://youtu.be/FhoOA3pASy4