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[Posted on my blog](http://www.krisconstable.com/432-hz-vs-440-hz-conspiracy-the...)

While I appreciate Jakub’s breakdown for the reader to get to explaining why the 432 number itself is effectively fabricated for convenience, he eventually states: “_The 432 Hz tuning, the divine tuning of nature itself, is ultimately defined as one vibration per 21279240.2083 periods of radiation of an uncommon chemical element_” however he’s missing the critical argument.

What is missing from the argument is the irrelevance of the number. For example, if 432 Hz resonates with I don’t know, the neocortex, there is no relevance what the number is or that we’ve associated with what we humans currently call a time second — that’s just a standard way of identifying the number.

What needs to be done is validation or invalidation of this frequency in terms of “healing and soothing properties.” It’s also important to not do so defensively, otherwise you’re arguing against organized religion or Santa Claus or Unicorns — it’s a useless effort to argue against something that has no scientific evidence. If someone is making a claim without evidence in the first place, you’re arguing irrationally already and you’ve already lost. Reason requires logic.

“Here is my repeatable scientific evidence why I feel the world is flat” is different than “I have a feeling the reason the sky is blue is from unicorn tears — prove to me it’s not”.

It is my suggestion that if someone feels that 432 Hz has healing and soothing properties, they take this hypothesis and run it through the scientific method. It will be these published results that can be responded to, directly. A quick search on plosone doesn’t show that there’s any documented research in this area currently, a new opportunity for those interested.


This can be difficult because everybody has been overexposed to 440, which is nearly impossible to control for. Even if you log an effect it can be argued that the effect is not of 432 but of a certain deviation from a norm.


Eh, try it across a range of different tunings and see if there's a peak in the effect around 432. If there were, it would be easier for me to believe it's the 432 that's significant rather than "normal - 8Hz"


Thank you! My thoughts exactly - glad to see someone else with the same sentiment


s/with/claim/

I'm not sure we're doing anyone any favours when we parrot marketing speak for security companies. "with" implies the author is aware, but reading the article implies the author isn't familiar with best practices in this area.


$2.7 Billion dollars: snort -> sourcefire -> Cisco

http://www.networkcomputing.com/careers-and-certifications/c...


Sourcefire significantly clamped down on the openness of Snort. Pushing out new versions with less-free licenses, and changing the alert format regularly.

NB: I'm not saying they were wrong for this, because they've got to make money.


I've had this idea several years ago, and it now exists in a few cities around the world. Feel free to start one in your city, and add it to the wiki: http://www.ideasmeetings.org

It's simply a monthly meetup for idea sharing, validation, and collaboration. Helping each other make our ideas happen, be it an art project, community project, business, or social enterprise.


I've created a subreddit for regular idea validation: https://www.reddit.com/r/ideavalidation because we have ideas more than once a month.


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