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Re: (meteorobs) Electrophonic Sounds the articles
More info on electrophonic sounds and Colin Keay's work can be found at:
http://users.hunterlinkdot net.au/~ddcsk/gelphonx.htm
Fred Mason
Atlantic Community College
Mays Landing NJ 08330
capnjeep@worldnet.attdot net
KevTK@aol.com wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I took another look at the two Meteorite! magazine articles before sending a
> report.
>
> The articles were from the Nov. '97 and the Aug. '98 issues. The list's very
> own Graham Wolf was the author of the Nov. article. The gist of his article
> was to give a history to the reports of such sightings. The first one being
> in 817 AD by the Chinese. Edmund Halley also made reference to the phenomena
> in 1719. He goes on to list many more reports of sightings or "hearings."
>
> The August article was written by Colin Keay (is he here?) is a retired
> physcist and astronomer and one of the few fellows in the Royal Astronomical
> Society of New Zealand.
> In the article he suggests that the effect lies in the region of 10 Hz to 100
> kHz area. "Some research papers on the electromagnetic radiation from nuclear
> explosions revealed a peak at 12 kHz due to the instabilities of the expanding
> fireball." He then goes on to produce various research papers that back the
> theory. I can't say that I completely understood the whole thing and if Dr.
> Keay is here, maybe he could expand on his thoughts.
>
> I (thru the NJAA's newspaper) have an agreement with Joel Shiff of the
> magazine that I can republish any article providing I give Meteorite! magazine
> full credit. Which I have done in the past. If anyone wants a copy of Dr.
> Keay's article, e-me privately and I'll send you a copy. Then maybe someone
> who has a little more understanding of electromagnetics can expand on the
> theory.
>
> Kevin
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