How many atomic particles are needed to represent your unique voice? Amazingly, the answer is ‘one.’ As mentioned above, a single atom can vibrate with all the complex vibrations that make your voice unique to you. Therefore, sound can be said to exhibit holographic principles because every atomic particle in a sound bubble contains all the vibrational data of the sound source.
One mathematical definition of ‘holographic’ (reported by Andrew Zimmerman Jones from original work by Gerard ‘t Hooft and Leonard Susskind) is that The total information contained in a volume of space corresponds to an equal amount of information on the surface of that space.2 This definition precisely describes the sonic data within a sound bubble and at all points on its periphery; therefore, sound embodies holographic principles.
In the illustration above, a single sound bubble emerges from the woman’s mouth and nose. In reality, this primary bubble would diffract backward within a millisecond of its creation, and the sound bubble would surround the woman’s head. But for the sake of clarity, only the primary bubble is shown. The bubble’s surface pattern depicts the harmonic content of her voice.
Having summarized the nature of sound, let us now explore the phenomenon of light to understand the special relationship between sound and light that will lead to understanding how your songs reach the stars and how your voice speaks the language of cells.
The Nature of Light
Visible light is electromagnetism of a particular frequency, or, to be more accurate, a range of frequencies. The chart on page 11
illustrates this point very well.