Sound Healing, does it really heal?

[vintagesnaps]

Here ya go, watch this lecture, something about a string at both ends, that's all I can tell ya, I was lost a minute in. lol There's a reason I am not a scientist.


This one's better, apparently monkeys did something with polarizers, so us photographers ought to be able to!



Jiggle one side and generate a wave, we used to do that with jump ropes when we were kids. So this is why I worked with kids and did not go to MIT.

This involves math..... and is too much for a Friday.

 

[waday]

Here ya go, watch this lecture, something about a string at both ends, that's all I can tell ya, I was lost a minute in. lol There's a reason I am not a scientist.

I love Dr. Walter Lewin. Look up some of his lectures on YouTube. Amazing guy!

Here's a classic:

 

[tecboy]

Bill Nye worked as an engineer for over 30 years.

I don't think Bill Nye has worked for 30 years as a mechanical engineer. When he gets to comedy in science, he switched career.

 

[vintagesnaps]

He looks like a classic professor type guy. The other polarizer experiment I sort of get, but the professor, not so much... they didn't show any monkeys though.

Found a NY Times article on the sound whatever thingy. It's in the fashion/style section! lol
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/24/fashion/thursdaystyles/what's-the buzz-sound-therapy.html?_r

As I figured knowing child development and having been thru a good bit of therapy myself after the stroke (and a frozen shoulder to add to it), if you can tell your muscles to relax i suppose putting on some soothing music couldn't hurt and might help. But otherwise... if there's no basis for some supposed 'therapy' in medicine or science, probably would be better for people to save their time and money!

Thanks tecboy for helping me waste time and get nothing done which I didn't want to do anything anyway!

 

[tecboy]

Thanks tecboy for helping me waste time and get nothing done which I didn't want to do anything anyway!

Okay, when I first watched this episode, I thought it was a joke by Bill Nye. Just curious on what others have to say.

 

[waday]

I don't think Bill Nye has worked for 30 years as a mechanical engineer. When he gets to comedy in science, he switched career.

He didn't stop working in the science field when he moved into educating the public. He worked as a consulting engineer through 2000. Then after that, helping out with the Mars Exploration Rover, etc.

Here's his CV... Bill-Nye-CV | Aerospace | Entertainment (General)

 

[vintagesnaps]

Which episode? the one you linked seemed to be a clip from the show where he was saying there was nothing to that guy yelling at someone's belly.

He went to Cornell, worked for Boeing and invented something they still use on planes, so I guess he knows something scientific... I remember him starting out doing kids shows. Quite a varied career.

 

[tecboy]

Really, you guys don't like Bill Nye?

 

[vintagesnaps]

Haven't seen him enough to really know. Nowadays there seem to be people quick to criticize or complain about almost anything! too easy to find a place online to gripe away. Would have to look at more of his stuff.

 

[tecboy]

Haven't seen him enough to really know. Nowadays there seem to be people quick to criticize or complain about almost anything! too easy to find a place online to gripe away. Would have to look at more of his stuff.

There are plenty of youtubes criticized Bill Nye.

 

[waday]

Really, you guys don't like Bill Nye?

I like him.

I've seen and heard enough of him, that I tend to trust his opinion. But, I still make my own opinion, of course. He's often a guest host on StarTalk, which I'm a regular listener.

When one actually listens to him speak, they understand that he doesn't claim to know all of this himself, rather through reading research.

It's too easy to just spew ad hominem attacks against him, which happens all too often. I've seen it here in this thread, as well as on FB. It's sad to see how many people see a meme and take it for absolute truth without doing any background research.

 

[tecboy]

I actually like Bill Nye. It is one episode that is pretty weird. Bill seems he is trying to discredit sound healing.

 

[tecboy]

I don't believe in Sound Healing at all. However, I think Bill has gone a bit too far. Still, the episode is pretty funny anyway.

 

[Braineack]

Really, you guys don't like Bill Nye?

no, he's a TV personality who: 1. is annoying, 2. recently has disputed basic science and cares more about extreme social issues and 3. is a political pundit who wants to jail people that disagrees with him.

I never heard of his show, but these reviewers seem to love it: "Bill Nye Saves the World" Reviews & Ratings - IMDb

 

[vintagesnaps]

I don't see why he shouldn't discredit it if it claims to cure cancer by yelling at it.

I thought Superman saved the world. No, I guess he just flew around the globe and turned back time. Well, close enough! lol