1.1: The Fundamental Vibration of Nature

1In 1994, Dr. Masaru Emoto began taking photos of ice crystals. What he found was that environmental surroundings had different ...
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1.2: The Fundamental Vibration of Music

1 1 1 For Pythagoras (c. 570 BCE - c. 495 BCE), the ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician, numbers were ...
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1.1: The Fundamental Vibration of Nature

1.2: The Fundamental Vibration of Music

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