Universal Noise

Fifty-seven octaves below Middle C, a black hole resonates on B Flat. And it is the only note on the tuba that agitates alligators. B Flat is the key to the universe. The world may be round, but the universe B Flat.

British women speak English at a higher pitch than American women. American automobile horns are tuned to the key of F. “Air ball!” begins on F and drops to D, chanted in total and rhythmic mass unison. What sounds are universal and what are national? What are the implications? What are the explications? Clearly I need more fiber in my diet.

Universal tones and intervals exist. People overuse an expression because something in it appeals as cosmic dialogue, like “woo hoo”. The expression “uh oh” is the only glottal stop in our language. Is it a vestigial expression left over like an appendix from Middle English? Where did it come from? Why do we keep it? Will it be added to the Oxford English Dictionary? Certainly fads shape what we use, as well as our own physical evolution. There is evidence that cavemen did NOT say “ugh”. That deep back sound was a physical impossibility by the way the jaw was mounted. We are social animals. The need for dialogue at the broadest level may be why we seek God. It could explain the need to write blogs, and the hope for personal response from complete and total strangers.

Perhaps these sounds and expressions imply the limitation of language. Some emotions may be beyond what we can utter in recognized words, or do we create hyperbole of emotion by speaking outside of language? Is this a radical breakthrough in cosmic theory? Or is it cosmetic noise?