Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Raves At Stonehenge

MSN.com today is featuring a story regarding an acoustic study of Stonehenge, the mysterious ancient stone monument in England. The original purpose of Stonehenge has baffled researchers for centuries, but this new study suggests that the stones may have been intentionally placed to reflect and amplify sound. Check it out!

"Stonehenge: One Totally Awesome Rave Location"


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3 comments:

Idhrendur said...

Interesting. And awesome. Go ancient peoples!

Mike Morabito said...

very interesting. I like how they can do the beat counting and determine that the bpms were 160. haha.

Idhrendur said...

I suspect it's pretty much like figuring out resonances. The math is quite simple, actually.