Friday, April 18, 2008

BRAVO! ENCORE!!

hey boys! so i was looking at the yahoo news today and this article caught my attention. i'm realizing that this link won't work by the time you actually read these blogs so i will paraphrase the article even though science has never been my thing. i like it, i just don't get it. so about 10 years ago scientists caught this hum of "countless notes" the earth is giving off on a seismometer (a tool used to catch noises that even our ears can hear). the article called it a "giant, exceptionally quiet symphony". apparently this hum is too low for us to hear but the article said that "powerful tunes" have been discovered in this hum recently. so there's a constant rumble going off even when there are not rumblings from volcanoes or earthquakes or other such earth-shaking events. they're thinking maybe this song of earth is from the churning of the oceans or something called the "roiling atmosphere"*. another theory is due to these oscillations going on with huge "patches of rock moving up and down" that are undetectable to us surface dwellers. so they recently realized these oscillations are ring-shaped. there are other aspects to this discovery that i don't understand, something spherical as opposed to the ring-shaped stuff. i didn't get that part of it, you guys probably would. but now they're trying to figure out what unseen pressure is bearing down on these rocks to cause these oscillations. some theories are the sun, atmospheric pressure of some sort, pressures of the oceans but the scientists are excited to figure it out to better understand how the land/air/oceans all interact. however, i have a theory of my own. as it says in the bible, even if we don't sing out in praise to God the rocks and the trees will. this "giant, exceptionally quiet symphony" is being given every moment in honor of The Creator. it serves no other purpose but to worship the One who breathed life into the very core of this world. my soul is joining in with the hum and my hope is that yours are too.
*it seems roiling atmosphere is similar to a boiling pot. who knew!
p.s. i wrote this yesterday and this morning i wake up to a slight tremor of an earthquake. the last one i remember happening was like 25 years ago. anyway, it still scared me even though it was minor. i almost grabbed abel to stand in the doorway but it stopped. before that i was feeling nervous about the day so who knows what the day holds. maybe i'm being silly. it could be this little tremor is all that's going to happen today. it could be there's more in store. no matter what, i hope we all remember to sing along with the earth's hum today.

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