Hi Lowell,

In a good discussion often both the teacher and the student learn much from each other. The student, often the listener gathers information and disseminates it and in time, adding their own ideas to what has been learned formulates their own opinions and those lead to more questions for the teacher. Thus we are here today, I the student and you the learned teacher.

In formulating your hypothesis as to hearing a sound in your ear due to a solar event, you said that your brain was reacting to this solar event and produced the sound you heard in your ear. Inasmuch as the ear is the part of the body that receives vibrations and interprets them as a sound I think you may have meant to say the solar event produced a vibration that your ear interpreted as a sound, ie: an ear tone.

In just thinking about this in simple terms, it has occurred to me that if the solar event on its own caused you to hear a sound, then why did you only hear it in one ear and not both? It should arrive from out of the atmosphere and converge on your being all at once, not rendering favoritism to one side or the other. However, as this signal from the solar system was strong enough for you to hear it, then does it not impact the Earth and create a force, which in time may jar a fault loose? I believe you would agree that geomagnetics have a very powerful influence on areas which are volcanic in origin. As Jackson Lake, Wy is in a volcanic area, it seems to me, while you may have heard a sound which was solar related, it may also have impacted the Earth at Jackson Lake, which later produced the earthquake I expected to occur.

Is it possible that the teacher and the student are both correct?

I wonder....Petra