8: Recorded Sound, Prosopagnosic Pareidolia, and Meeting David Attenborough
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What Is Sound?
When you, when you break it down, it's really wild and it makes me very excited. So the first step to recording sound is to understand what sound is. And I think Ella sort of, you touched on this, but so there are particles all around us air. When you vibrate that air, that pressure causes the particles around it to also vibrate. That vibration passes from particle to particle through the air like a wave. It's like people pushing in a mosh pit. You know, the people are the air molecules and the sound is the, the pushing that travels through the pit. This is also famously why there's no sound in space and in space.
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