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title: "Think About This!"
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excerpt: "Did you ever wonder just how fast the speed of light (and electricity) is? Well, at 186,000 miles/ second thats lots of inches/second. In fact it is 11.78 inches /nanosecond. Now add harmonics (think of 12 individual notes in an octave on the piano keyboard). If you go 1/12 up the octave you come to…"
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# Think About This!

Did you ever wonder just how fast the speed of light (and electricity) is? Well, at 186,000 miles/ second thats lots of inches/second. In fact it is 11.78 inches /nanosecond. Now add harmonics (think of 12 individual notes in an octave on the piano keyboard). If you go 1/12 up the octave you come to the next pleasing sound. It is at this point where the sounds add up at certain times and cancel out at other times to create the (generally pleasing) sound you hear.