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people have stuck with us now for almost two hours. And I've mentioned impedance matching several times, and we never get to it. So let me tell you where I was going. There was an analogy that you gave on the Demystify Side podcast, which I'll put a link to on screen, with a string in open air. And if you were to pluck it, it makes a sound, but it's quite faint. And it's also difficult to pluck a string that's just falling without its ends attached. But if you just imagine it in space, then maybe you could do that. But then there's no air in space, but you get the idea. If you were to fix the ends, then it makes a louder sound. And if you were to put a guitar there with a hole, then it makes an even louder sound. You're using that as an example of impedance matching, so please. Yeah,

yeah, yeah. I mean, just as an intuition, I think it's fascinating that if you know, put a string between two walls and you pluck it, the sound is very faint. Whereas if you pluck it in a guitar, the sound can be pretty loud. And that's very puzzling, right? Actually, as a kid, I thought that didn't make any sense. It's like, why can you get something louder just by attaching it to an object? It's kind of like, where is the energy coming from?

Right. It sounds like it's breaking the conservation of energy, like the guitar is adding energy somehow. Exactly. But

the answer, I mean, for those who want to know, I mean, you can pause the video and think about it for a couple of minutes. The answer is that by attaching it to a guitar, you're essentially transferring those vibrations to the entire guitar. And then the entire guitar has a very large surface area for touching air. And so actually the sound of the guitar is not the sound of the string. The string is just providing kind of the background source of energy and vibration, but the actual sound is the oscillatory modes of the entire guitar as a whole and how it's interfacing with the rest of the air, which is doing it both inside and outside the guitar. So there's a lot of surface area. And by shaping the guitar in different ways and making it of different materials, the quality of the sound is going to change, even if the string is of the same material and you pluck it in the same way. I think, yeah, this is quite relevant for, for example, like making sense of how, you know, breath work gives rise to different meditation states. That if you've done a lot of meditation where, for example, you have energized a lot, let's say, your various chakra systems and you energize them and you cool them down and you energize them and you cool them down, that gives rise to a process that we call annealing at QRI. Essentially, annealing is this physical phenomenon where you can use energy to organize a system and make it more symmetrical. Typically, this is done in metals, where if you have like an industrial metal and you use it a lot, eventually it acquires a lot of imperfections. Like literally the crystal lattice of the atoms becomes misaligned and you get like these defects in it. And that makes it like brittle and just dysfunctional over time. But then what you can do is you heat it up above what is called its recrystallization temperature. The atoms actually become like even more disorganized. But then if you cool it down slowly, the atoms essentially become aligned in a perfect symmetrical lattice. And then the metal regains all of the qualities that was useful for your particular application. We think that something like that may underlie essentially a lot of these meditation practices and the use of psychedelics in a good environment with a good purpose, is that you're energizing your system. You're energizing your cardiovascular system, your nervous system, your muscles. And all of that energy is making them interact in lots of ways in such a manner that they can interface and interlock in better ways in such a way that it is kind of like reorganizing the crystal lattice. I mean, like if your system is kind of jumbled up because of all the stress that you have in life and you do a lot of breath work and you energize it, if you cool it down with a good mindset, in a positive emotional field, it's going to kind of crystallize in a way that will have like a higher capacity for consonants and harmony. So the way in which, yeah, this kind of impedance matching and metaphor for a string and a guitar is relevant, is that, you know, the more you have kind of like done that in the past and the healthier you are, so to speak, when you energize your system, you know, it's not just kind of like what it feels like is really not just, you know, the energy coming from your breath, in a sense, the breath work and the exercise that you're doing, but the emotional tone of your experience will have to do with the resonant modes of your whole system. And in that sense, you become kind of the guitar for the string. And, you know, the same can be with listening to music or, you know, dancing or even, you know, doing exercise. Any of these things, you know, the more you yourself are kind of in this very harmonious configuration, the more melodic and pleasant is going to be the way in which the energy gets dissipated. And yeah, does that answer your question, more or less? Yeah.