Three months ago—while languidly sprawled out on my parents’ sofa bed—I watched a video about Hans Jenny, a Swiss physician most famous for his research on cymatics, or the symmetrically intricate patterns that form from vibrational sound waves. Though the study of sound wave phenomena had been around for centuries—Robert Hooke, in 1680, demonstrated no…
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