Sympathetic Vibratory Physics

See Part 9 for finer discussion on the nature of vibration and oscillation.

"Vibration is the rhythmical motion of a body within itself." Keely

"Vibration is a periodic change of state, condition or wavefunction". Dale Pond

"All force is vibration..." Cayce (900-422) "So is matter." Cayce (1861-16)

"All comes from one central vibration - taking different form." Cayce (900-422)

"Everything is vibratory." Cayce (195-54)

"Vibration is movement. Movement is activity of a Positive and negative force." Cayce (281-29)

"Electricity or vibration is that same energy, same power, ye call God." Cayce (2828-4)

Ramsay
These definitions have been given for strings and pendulums have been wrong for both. Indeed, the vibration of a string is not even once from extreme to extreme; for while the string itself goes from one extreme to the other, it moves in half the time of one vibration and half the time of another. In the first half of its course, that is from the extreme to the right line, or line of its rest, it leaves the air on that side to expand itself; and in the second half of its course, that is from the right line to the other extreme, it compresses the air on the other side. Now, a vibration of a string does not consist in the expanding of a body of air on the one side of a string and the compression of a different body of air on the other side, but in the compression and expansion of the same body of air on the one side of the string; so the vibration of the string are on either side of the line of its rest. The vibration is the movement from the right line, or center of action, to the extreme and back again to the right line, and so on the other side.
This definition of a vibration answers to all the requirements of the case; and in exhibiting the ratio 1:2 with two strings, it brings the two strings into the same position at every second vibration of the higher one. And so with every ratio of the musical system. [Scientific Basis and Build of Music, page 23]

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1.22 - Definitions of Vibration