Fact or Fiction?: An Opera Singer's Piercing Voice Can Shatter Glass
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"Among the legends about Tansen are stories of his bringing down the rains with Raga Megh Malhar and lighting lamps by performing Raga Deepak."
No. The ad was for Memorex recording tape, and the hook was that Ella's voice recorded on Memorex tape was equally as effective as Ella singing live.
> Yet, it seems that until a couple of years ago there was no proof that any person had ever broken glass with his or her voice alone.
> Then in 2005 the Discovery Channel television show MythBusters tackled the question [...]
Considering that we have had witnesses reporting that tons of times in the last 200 years, and written records of such acts (by journalists), and everything, this is a peculiar version of "proof".
I agree that a Mythbusters finding may not be proof of the highest calibre but they do go through a lot of effort to avoid false positives/negatives.
They might not have been aliens from another planet, but UFO just means unidentified flying object, of which tons exist.
Now, I have not yet replicated that process in a more controlled test, in a suitably calibrated environment. But I would be interested to do so.
Apparently unless you're at the resonant frequency you need over 163 db to shatter glass:
> "Even if you could excite the cup, that doesn't guarantee it would break. Fracture depends on the size of the initial defects."
I have to wonder if Jaime tapping the glass with a spoon in that video not only reveals the frequency he needs, but more crucially introduces tiny fractures.
I actually found the article not clickbaity at all, I knew about the Mythbusters episode and resonant frequencies before but still learned something new.