News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Image Shows a Dolphin's Echolocated Impression of a Submerged Human.

Re:Image Shows a Dolphin's Echolocated Impression of a Subme... by lobster_johnson on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @07:36PM (#10700994)
This is spiritual new-age pseudoscience, and it's not worthy of HN.

The web site is by a group called Sonic Age America [1], which turns out to be a guy named John Stuart Reid and his wife [2], whose occupation is "energetic healer". They believe that life started with sound, and have invented "cymatics, the study of visible sound" ("based on the principle that when sound encounters a membrane such as your skin or the surface of water, it imprints an invisible pattern of energy") and "sound healing" ("sound is fast regaining its place as the pre-eminent healing modality") [2].

[1] https://www.cymascope.com/aboutus.html

[2] https://www.cymascope.com/cyma_research/Caduceus%20article-1...

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Image Shows a Dolphin's Echolocated Impression of a Subme... by 100ideas on Wednesday December 09, 2015 @02:09AM (#10702366)
I agree that much of their content has a "new-agey" feel, but that's not sufficient to discredit the particulars of the claims they are making about dolphin communication. It's conceivable their new-agey motivations for the work could nonetheless have led to a legitimate discovery, even if it is shrouded in quacky words like "cymatics".
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Image Shows a Dolphin's Echolocated Impression of a Subme... by dTal on Thursday December 10, 2015 @03:49AM (#10709640)
"Cymatics" isn't quacky, though it may have been co-opted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymatics

[ Parent | on HN ]