On Love. Human Love.
“Love, amor, amor es diferente a atracción. Atracción es tu cuerpo indicándote resonancia con esa persona. Es tu cuerpo diciéndote compartimos una frecuencia, una vibración que resuena.”
Love, “amor”, what is love?
Is love physical attraction?
Attraction is your body telling you this persona and you share a frequency, that your shared frequency or frequencies resonate.
“In Physics the term `resonance’ refers to the natural tendency of many objects to vibrate more vigorously at some frequencies than at others. The frequencies at which this occurs are called the object’s `resonance frequencies’.
In acoustics great use has been made of a particular kind of resonance, called air resonance. This occurs when the air in a container is made to vibrate and produce a sound.”[1]
In case of human interaction, if two people talk to each other, what would their conversation be about? If their bodies share the same frequency, what would the air in the container produce sounds of? How would they vibrate?
If an angry person joins a conversation for example, would his/her frequency impact how the conversation evolves? Would the new frequency in the conversation lead to the other people to tune into his/her anger?
In the 1850’s Herman Helmholthz designed “Acoustic resonators”, vessels that “only respond to a specific frequency of sound, and would greatly amplify the sound when it was present.
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Each resonator was carefully tuned to respond to only a single frequency. For the person using it, the resonance would occur quite suddenly, with an unmistakable amplification of a particular sound.”[1]
And, sound is vibration.
“A sound wave is created as a result of a vibrating object. The vibrating object is the source of the disturbance that moves through the medium…Any object that vibrates will create a sound. The sound could be musical or it could be noisy; but regardless of its quality, the sound wave is created by a vibrating object.
Nearly all objects, when hit or struck or plucked or strummed or somehow disturbed, will vibrate…If you pluck a guitar string, it will begin to vibrate…The frequency or frequency at which an object tends to vibrate with when hit, struck, plucked, strummed or somehow disturbed is known as the natural frequency of the object.”[2]
What affects our natural frequency?
“The speed at which waves move through the strings is dependent upon the properties of the medium.”[2]
For example, in the case of a guitar, the material a string is made of the density and tightness affect the speed of the wave and the length of the strings affect the wavelength when the guitar is strucked. Or, in the case of wind instruments, the speed of a sound waves can be altered by changes in room temperature.
In music, the “role of a musician is to control these variables in order to produce a given frequency from the instrument that is being played[…]to find instruments that possess the ability to vibrate with sets of frequencies that are musically sounding (i.e. mathematically related by simple whole number ratoios) and to vary the length and (if possible) properties to créate the desired sounds.”
In life, we are both the instrument and the musician, we can choose where to be, with whom and what to engage with given our natural frequencies and based on these natural frequencies we may resonate or not with someone else.
But, all of this, is attraction, physical attraction or resonance. Is this different than love?
[1] “Resonance – Smithsonian” https://americanhistory.si.edu/science/resonance.htm
[2] “Natural Frequency” Sound Waves and Music – Lesson 4 -Resonance and Standing Waves https://physicsclassroom.com/Class/sound/u11I4a.cfm