Well - I could take the low road and claim that Roger's link demonstrated mostly my intellectual kinship with the renowned Edmund Halley . . .

But - as Chris said; the article is rather compelling on the subject of electrophonic transduction and its existence as a real phenomenon. I'm convinced. Thanks, Roger!

Kinda reminiscent of the controversy over whether the P-waves of earthquakes could be heard. For a long time, IIRC, seismologists insisted that there was no way that the human ear could hear P-waves other than through their interaction with objects at the surface (windows rattling, etc.), despite a great number of anecdotal reports to the contrary. I believe that it is now accepted that they can be heard. I am convinced that I heard a VERY loud noise from a quite moderate local earthquake some years ago. Similarly, a great many eyewitnesses report seeing rolling "waves" on the surface of open areas during major earthquakes, moving like waves on the ocean. But the only waves seismologists know about would not actually be visible. So far the seismologists have not had to eat crow on this one, attributing the reports to distorted perceptions of the observer due to the accelerations he or she is experiencing, inner ear inputs to the visual cortex and the like. But - who knows?

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