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What Is a Schumann Resonance and Why Am I Being Offered a 7.83HZ Oscillator?

22 points by zdw 4y ago

im3w1l 4y ago
The reason you are being offered one is because MyAnimeList was hacked. No matter where you go, everything's connected.
- Blackthorn 4y ago
  That's a deep cut, lmao. A shame you'll get downvoted because nobody is gonna get it.
  - _qxjp 4y ago
    I think it's a reference to Serial Experiments Lain. Did not even look that one up.
    - im3w1l 4y ago
      Yeah, the hack happened like a day or two before the article was written, and the hack defaced the site with stuff from Serial Experiments Lain. Which in turn has the Schumann Resonance as a plot point. So that could have started a trend in the searches or something that the recommendation algorithms picked up on.
scns 4y ago
They were offered as a preset in an Binauraul Beats app which is open source. They are middleish alpha waves. They can be measured in the brain in deep meditation. Thanks for posting. Now i know how they were "discovered".
Blackthorn 4y ago
Damn this topic really brings out the cranks. Just look at the comments section of that article.
atoav 4y ago
The problem with this kind of pseud-scientific eso stuff is, that it relies purely on anecdotal evidence — anectdotal evidence by people who want to believe in it. If we assume the Schuman resonance is a real magnetic phenomenon that can be observed, the questions that these people would need to answer are: 1. If this affects the brain, through what mechanism would that happen? Induction? How would a study look to test this? 2. If such a low frequency oscillation with such a low energy does affect the brain, why don't we go completely cookoo bananas in the presence of magnetic fields that are many magnitudes stronger? 3. What evidence would you need to disprove that this effect happens? In practise one could "simply" do a randomized double blind study with a high enough number of people that have to do different tasks and you subject some to the magnetic fields and others not. If you are extra good you do it in a way that nobody (even the experimenters) knows whether the magnetic field is on for a given candidate or not. And then you compare the results of those tasks. But I think the problem is that they don't even wanna know, believing is enough.

22 points by zdw 4y ago

im3w1l 4y ago

The reason you are being offered one is because MyAnimeList was hacked. No matter where you go, everything's connected.

Blackthorn 4y ago
That's a deep cut, lmao. A shame you'll get downvoted because nobody is gonna get it.
- _qxjp 4y ago
  I think it's a reference to Serial Experiments Lain. Did not even look that one up.
  - im3w1l 4y ago
    Yeah, the hack happened like a day or two before the article was written, and the hack defaced the site with stuff from Serial Experiments Lain. Which in turn has the Schumann Resonance as a plot point. So that could have started a trend in the searches or something that the recommendation algorithms picked up on.

scns 4y ago

They were offered as a preset in an Binauraul Beats app which is open source. They are middleish alpha waves. They can be measured in the brain in deep meditation. Thanks for posting. Now i know how they were "discovered".

Blackthorn 4y ago

Damn this topic really brings out the cranks. Just look at the comments section of that article.

atoav 4y ago

The problem with this kind of pseud-scientific eso stuff is, that it relies purely on anecdotal evidence — anectdotal evidence by people who want to believe in it. If we assume the Schuman resonance is a real magnetic phenomenon that can be observed, the questions that these people would need to answer are: 1. If this affects the brain, through what mechanism would that happen? Induction? How would a study look to test this? 2. If such a low frequency oscillation with such a low energy does affect the brain, why don't we go completely cookoo bananas in the presence of magnetic fields that are many magnitudes stronger? 3. What evidence would you need to disprove that this effect happens? In practise one could "simply" do a randomized double blind study with a high enough number of people that have to do different tasks and you subject some to the magnetic fields and others not. If you are extra good you do it in a way that nobody (even the experimenters) knows whether the magnetic field is on for a given candidate or not. And then you compare the results of those tasks. But I think the problem is that they don't even wanna know, believing is enough.