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by noizejoy 1568 days ago
I find it one of the more amazing things, that so much of our physical world has a time/frequency dimension.

And our bodies have at least a couple of obvious senses (vision and hearing) to experience some frequency ranges. And with modern computing power, many natural phenomena on our planet and across the universe can be morphed into ranges we can see or hear.

And this in turn not only aids in scientific understanding, but also allows (some of) us to respond emotionally.

And that keeps me awestruck, even when other properties of our species can be utterly depressing.

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It's also interesting that these senses work logarithmically instead of linear.
And have dynamic ranges. A lot of bad ways of sensing have been selected against,.
You reminded me of this scene from Battlestar Galactica that has stuck with me since I watched it (spoiler alert). Conversely, the character laments the sensory limitations of the human body :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPnx3zO3SDc&t=73s

One way of looking at it is that everything in the universe is vibrations.