The earth naturally oscillates to two 'notes,' one with a vibration period of 53.1 minutes, the other of 54.7 minutes. They are about 20 octaves lower in pitch than the tones we know and therefore, unless transposed, resemble silent, periodic earthquakes. It was the violent Chilean earthquake of 1960 that provided the first clearly "heard" ringing of Earth, when scientists excitedly observed that volume of the oscillations from each blow of the Andean "clapper" of the Pacific "bell" diminished by almost half every two days.

Now if the song of a planet is pitched 20 octaves below man's hearing, the song sung a complementary 20 octaves above it, leaving us musically midway between the trebles and basses of the cosmos.

It also seems like the 'smallest indivisible particles of matter' may be actual 'nodes of resonance!' Some physicists are even hopeful that the dynamic school of physical research (which mostly studies what happens when such sub-atomic particles collide) and the theoretical school (which mostly tries to categorize the same particles relative to their presumed least common denominator, the 'quark') will harmonize their disciplines through acceptance of something called "exotic resonance" (because it transcends quark harmonics) .--excerpted from The Seven Mysteries of Life: An Exploration in Science and Philosophy by Guy Murchie. Published by Houghton Miffin Company, Boston. © 1978 by Guy Murchie.

Radio waves carried by the solar wind are filled with whistles, hisses and pops. While those from Saturn's magnetosphere resemble whines and hissing clicks. (When played through a music synthesizer at higher speed the signals can be made to produce a slow, dreamy melody.) Even the sun is a "great musical instrument" ringing like a gong, according to Dr. Martin Pomerantz, of the Bartol Research Foundation. Studying the sun's surface, scientists observed oscillations that they believe arise from acoustic waves inside the sun. Dr. Pomerantz says that 80 overtones (different ways that the sun vibrates) with periods of two to eight minutes have been identified. --from Discovery magazine, a brief insert titled: "Cosmic Song."

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