Concept of the Physical Phenomenon of Resonance

Franco Ivaldi

Independent researcher, Cigliano, It aly.

M ail: franco.ivaldi@gmail.com

Cigliano M arch 13, 2020 Last modified: M arch 4, 2022

Introduction

The " Resonances" , from t he smallest part icle of mat t er t o t he largest clust ers of galaxies,
represent t he heart of t he physical st ruct ure t hat w e find in and around us.
In t he past , music, physics and t he st udy of t he Universe w ere almost one, and t oget her t hey w ere
oft en st udied, looking for connect ions.
The links bet w een music and " Resonance" in physics have at t ract ed sublime m inds, from
Pyt hagoras t o Kepler, from New t on t o Einst ein, and also int erest ed one of t he great est
saxophonist s in jazz hist ory such as John William Colt rane, w ho had arranged t he not es in a circle,
he had connect ed t hem w it h st raight lines, forming a five-point ed st ar. Inspired by Einst ein,
Colt rane had put physics and geomet ry at t he cent er of his music, connect ing t he Resonances t hat
make up sound, t o t he Resonances t hat make up t he Universe.
Even t he physicist and jazz musician St ephan Alexander, aut hor of t he book " The Jazz of Physics:
The Secret Link Bet w een M usic and t he St ruct ure of t he Universe" , connect s jazz w it h t he answ ers
t o t he ult imat e quest ions of modern and cont em porary physics about t he past and t he fut ure of
t he universe.

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2) The phenomenon of Resonance in the Universe

Professor Del Giudice, 2015 , t eaches us t hat : Only a minorit y of physicist s has t he real percept ion
of t he field of applicat ion of t he st udies on t he physical phenomenon of " Resonance" , and m ore
generally of quant um physics. The expert s of t he sect or, being at t ent ive t o t he specific, oft en do
not grasp t he real scope of t hese discoveries, w hich are m ore oft en underst ood by t hose w ho are
not in t he t rade, and have t he most open mind and free from expect at ions and pre-packaged
concept s, coming from many years of Educat ion.

The quant um paradigm says t hat : “ There is no object in t he w orld t hat is isolable” . The concept
w as born in 1900, at a t ime w hen great revolut ions w ere being prepared in societ y, and from
w here w e grasp a fundament al point : t he event s of t he w orld are all connect ed t o each ot her,
t hey are not independent of each ot her, it is t herefore no coincidence t hat in same period in
societ y import ant changes t ake place, as w ell as in ot her sect ors.
This means t hat t here is a resonance in human beings, such t hat t he eyes open all t oget her even
on different fields, as t hey w ere at t he t ime: abst ract art , t w elve-t one music, t he Oct ober
revolut ion in polit ics and societ y, Freud and Jung in t he psychology.

Let 's t ry t o underst and w hat lies behind t he classic paradigm by giving an example:
An int elligent child is given a t oy, at first he plays w it h it and has fun, in t his sense t he holist ic
approach is st at ic, and it is a t heoret ical-met hodological posit ion based on t he idea t hat t he
propert ies of a syst em cannot be explained exclusively t hrough it s part s.
From t he holist ic point of view , t he funct ional sum of t he part s is alw ays great er / different t han
t he sum of t he performances of t he part s t aken individually.
A t ypical example of a holist ic st ruct ure is t he biological organism: for w hich a living being as such
must alw ays be considered as a unit y / t ot alit y, w hich cannot be expressed w it h all t he part s t hat
make it up.
At t his point t he child may have a w it : he breaks t he t oy t o see how it is made, w hich is a
dest ruct ive act ion, w hile for t hose linked t o it s use, t he operat ion w as a regress. A t oy is broken
dow n int o pieces, many pieces t hat alone are unusable, but now t he child know s w hat it is like
inside.
Third phase: it must be reassembled, or rat her, a bet t er one must be built , w hich means t hat t o
access a higher level it is necessary t o go t hrough t he t unnel of dest ruct ion; t his fact also
charact erizes t he t ransit ion from t he st at ic holism of t he past t o t he dynamic and variable holism
of t he present t ime, free from preconcept ions and pre-est ablished condit ions, w hich w e hope t he
fut ure holds for us.

The Galilean / New t onian paradigm in a cert ain sense have had a great hist orical relevance and
funct ion: w e are children of at omism t hat w e are overcoming in t he name of dynamic holism, but
w it hout it w e w ould not have reached t oday.
The new holism emerges from t he possibilit y t hat w e have of seeing infinit e unit s: possibilit ies t hat
at oms allow us t o form, precisely because w e know t hem as separat e object s.
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M any civilizat ions, for example t he Chinese w it h Yin and Yang, have alw ays seen t his w orld in
const ant evolut ion and t ransformat ion, w here " dest ruct ion" is a fundament al element of
" const ruct ion" . In t he Galilean / New t onian scheme, nat ure is conceived as a set of bodies, init ially
isolable (as long as t hey are dist anced indefinit ely), and w hich int eract w it h each ot her only from
t he out side t hrough t he use of force, t hat is, w it h t he exchange of energy .

According t o t his scheme, t he so-called " mat t er" is inherent ly passive, it does somet hing only
w hen someone forces it t o do. M ilt on has right ly observed t he role of t his paradigm in t he social
sciences, w here in t he face of any event , one goes in search of t he culprit s.
In t his sense: even t he experiment s t hat must be reproducible are act ually unreal, since no human
event is reproducible exact ly t w ice, it w ill never ret urn t o t he same condit ion, and each t ime t he
result w ill be different .

In physics w e are used t o having repeat abilit y, because isolat ed bodies are t aken int o
considerat ion. Nat ure is made up of isolat ed bodies, so considering isolat ed bodies w it h
everyt hing t hat is inside t hem w it hout t hese undergoing variat ions, w e should be able t o make t he
calculat ions very simple, bringing everyt hing back t o a mat hemat ical level. In fact , t he post ulat e of
classical physics is based precisely on t he concept t hat everyt hing is mat hemat ical, schemat izable,
fixed and const ant , but profoundly not in keeping w it h t he realit y of nat ure.
A few years ago t his post ulat e w as broken, t he classical paradigm collapsed, not only because it is
in cont rast w it h t he experiment al fact s, but also because it is logically in cont radict ion w it hin it,
and t his happens w hen classical mechanics and classical t hermodynam ics cont radict t hemselves.
among t hem.

In a w orld in w hich object s w ere separable, t hat is, in a w orld t hat could be defined, as a collect ion
of at oms int eract ing t hrough forces according t o t he law s of classical physics, w it hin t he limit of
t emperat ure t ending t ow ards zero, w e w ill have t hat at oms tend t o st op complet ely, and t he
ent ropy (t ransformat ion, ie t he body's capacit y for change) t hat measures t he present disorder,
becomes infinit e; w hereby nat ure becomes equal t o Parmenides' being, somet hing fixed t hat w ill
no longer move for et ernit y.
This assumpt ion is rigorously deduced t hrough mat hemat ics, and since t his is not possible, t he
cont radict ion t hat emerges w as t he origin of t he crisis; so t he claim t hat physical nat ure can be
considered as a set of at oms linked by forces is false.
There must be somet hing else, t here is a new non-localizable ent it y t hat has been agreed t o call
" quant um vacuum" , but if it is empt y it shouldn't exist ?

We not e here t hat even t he w ord " at om" originat es from t he concept of indivisible, and t herefore
w hen w e t alk about t he element s of t he at om, w e are in cont radict ion of t erms. The " void" is
t herefore a somet hing, it is not not hing, it is an ent it y suscept ible t o oscillat ion t hat does not
coincide w it h t he concept of empt y space, because it is a st ruct ure logically prior to space-t ime, it

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cannot be made t o coincide w it h t he old concept of aet her, since t his w as seen as a kind of st at e
of mat t er, a kind of ocean w here bodies float ed.
The " void" is a st ruct ure from w hich " space-t ime" w ill emerge, it is an ent it y capable of int eract ing
w it h various object s, and t herefore in t he quant um concept ion nobody is ever isolable, because it
can only be isolat ed from ot her object s, but it cannot be isolat ed from t he " void" .

To bet t er underst and t his concept , let 's imagine a met aphor t hat foresees a boat in t he sea, w here
w e ident ify t he sea w it h t he void: w e can know everyt hing about t he element s of t he boat and it s
crew , and t his allow s us t o make predict ions about t he behavior of t he boat ; for example on how
long it w ill t ake t o reach anot her boat , and on it s performance; at a cert ain point , how ever, w e
realize t hat t he boat begins t o oscillat e (somet hing w e had not foreseen), t he boat oscillat es due
t o t he vibrat ions of t he sea, and t his t hing affect s t he behavior of t he boat , even if t his w as t aken
as an isolat ed object , because t he presence of t he sea, w hich w e had not considered, has an
influence on t he behavior of t he boat .
Therefore, even considering t he boat as an isolat ed element , t o predict it s behavior, w e must
necessarily also consider t he sea fact or; in t his sense, t he " void" is seen as a physical element , and
t hanks t o t he int eract ion of object s w it h t he " void" , t he body acquires it s ow n " int rinsic
fluct uabilit y" , t hat is, it oscillat es.

At t his point it can be said t hat :

1) It is not t rue t hat nat ure is afraid of empt iness, since it needs it t o avoid ent ropy.
2) Nat ure is afraid of st illness, since no physical object including t he quant um vacuum is free not
t o oscillat e.

This assumpt ion opens up great possibilit ies:

1) We can have various object s t hat oscillat e in phase w it h each ot her, or t hey can exert ext ernal
forces bet w een t hem and t hus int errupt t he oscillat ion in phase.
2) We can also have a mot ion from inside t he object , t hat is, an int ernal force connect ed t o t he
phase and resonance.

We not e here t hat w hile t he w orld of " force" requires " space-t ime" , t he w orld of " phase" is
out side of " space-t ime" , so: a " phase" relat ionship can propagat e at almost speed infinit e, and can
connect dist ant object s in space and t ime t o each ot her.
A resonance relat ionship could for example be a t elepat hic relat ionship; so if I am in t elepat hic
relat ionship w it h a person even t housands of light years aw ay, t he t ransmission of resonance (ie of
t hought ) w ould occur inst ant aneously; t his fact violat es t he principle of causalit y, w hich does not
apply t o t he " phase" , but applies only t o t he " force" .
Force, energy, and mat t er follow t he principle of causalit y: one cannot have an effect before t he
causal agent is present , but one can have a resonant relat ionship w it h somet hing t hat occurs at
any point in space-t ime. " , t herefore also of t he past , or very dist ant in space, and t hese are some
of t he w onders of t he" quant um paradigm " .

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Einst ein w as t he first t o underst and t he consequences of t he law s of quant um physics, and t o be
fright ened by t he implicat ions of him, enunciat ing t he paradox of Einst ein, Podolski and Rosen,
w hich says:
If I t ake t w o elect rons t hat come from t he same source, and have t he same quant um st at e
(int ended as an energy level), but w it h different spin (int ended as a direct ion of clockw ise and
ant i-clockw ise rot at ion); if I separat e t hem by a met er, a kilomet er or a m illion kilomet ers, t hey
cont inue t o be quant um correlat ed; if I change t he rot at ion of one elect ron, inst ant ly (ie fast er
t han t he speed of light ), t he rot at ion of t he ot her elect ron also changes. From t his Einst ein
deduced t hat quant um physics could not be t rue.
Simult aneously w it h Einst ein also t he great psychologist Carl Gust av Jung, learned of t his
possibilit y t hanks t o his friendship w it h t he physicist Pauli, but inst ead of being fright ened by it he
w as ent husiast ic, since nat ure adm it s t he possibilit y of inst ant aneous synchronic behaviors. This
concept made it possible t o explain many t hings on a psychological level, such as t he behavior of
t he collect ive unconscious.

In t his sense, t he void becomes t he archive of all t he nat ural experiences t hat have been, t hat are,
and t hat w ill be, as a kind of " Akasic library" , in w hich everyt hing t hat happens in t he Universe
corresponds t o some fluct uat ion t hat fills a " box" t hat someone can draw on, and anyone can
relat e t o anyone else if t hey w ant .
Hence t he import ance of Pierobon's experiment , w hich suggests t hat w e can ent er a phase
resonance w it h an int erest ing principle: w here t here is not only indet erminat ion bet w een posit ion
and im pulse, or bet w een energy and t ime, but t here is and also a less know n uncert aint y principle
bet w een t he number of element s of a syst em, and t heir phase. In t he sense t hat t he uncert aint y
bet w een t he num ber of element s of a syst em, m ult iplied by t he uncert aint y about t he phase (i.e.
t he uncert aint y about t he rhyt hm of t he oscillat ion), cannot be smaller t han t he Plank const ant . So
if I w ant t o creat e perfect music, I have t o be sure about t he phase (i.e. t he uncert aint y must be
zero), t hen t he uncert aint y about t he number of element s must be infinit e (t herefore an infinit e
number of part icipant s). While if t he number of element s is finit e, t hen t he uncert aint y of t he
phase cannot be smaller t han t he inverse of t he number of element s.

Let 's t ake an example: if w e consider happiness as abandoning ourselves t o a rhyt hm or an

oscillat ion, if w e seek absolut e happiness w e must resonat e at a w ell-defined rhyt hm (zero
uncert aint y), and t herefore t o have t he only t rue happiness, w e must have an infinit e number of
part icipant s, ot herw ise it w ill alw ays be " relat ive happiness" .
This assumpt ion makes us underst and w hy t he living being, w hich is an organism cent ered on t he
" phase" , has t his expansive passion: because it t ends t o connect w it h t he largest possible num ber
of beings in nat ure, from w here t he int erest in know ledge comes from. and curiosit y.
It t herefore happens t hat living beings resonat e in t heir int ent ions and im pulses, and t his explains
w hy in cert ain places, and in cert ain periods w e find t he presence of people w ho have similar
charact erist ics. For example, in t he 15t h cent ury it happened t hat a " resonant " environment w as
creat ed in Florence, w hich at t ract ed t o it self a w hole series of prominent personalit ies, for art ist ic
and int ellect ual abilit ies.
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In t his sense: t he genius is a person w ho is lucky enough t o resonat e w it h many people, t he genius
is one w ho is able t o express t he passions, feelings and dreams of a very large number of people.
Lenin in ext remism said t hat : t he best avant -gardes, t he best part ies collect t he dreams and
aspirat ions of t housands of people, but revolut ions happen w hen t hese dreams " resonat e" w it h
t he dreams, aspirat ions, and passions of many millions of people.

These examples illust rat e t he enormous pot ent ial behind t he concept of " Resonance" .
In t he paradigms t hat M illt on Bennet defined as Einst einian / New t onian, t here is t hat object s are
defined by t heir equilibrium , and exist as such; but if an object moves and oscillat es it cannot be
defined, and in t his sense w e can t hink of giving definit ions only t o st at ic object s.
For m oving object s, one can only give a descript ion of how and w here t he syst em is evolving, in
t he sense t hat t his syst em can remain ident ical t o it self for some t ime, or it evolves, and from t his
assumpt ion one can st art st udying t he law s of evolut ion.

The charact erist ic of t he living being is t he high movement , so it can move, even if no force is
applied t o it . The living being is act ive, and it s reason for movement comes from w it hin it self, and
is able t o manage it s abilit ies and energy in t he w ay it deems most appropriat e. The living being
does not only follow t he law of causalit y, because it accumulat es pot ent ial energy t hat does not
have it s ow n defined purpose.
It w ill be t hrough his w ill t hat t he finalit y w ill be int roduced int o t he " living being" system,
managing t his energy due t o unpredict able a priori act ions, creat ing a problem for physics t hat
loves predict able t hings.

Bibliography

Del Giudice E, 2015. The concept of Resonance according t o Emilio Del Giudice:
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