On 2017-03-05, Curt <cu...@free.fr> wrote: > On 2017-03-04, deloptes <delop...@gmail.com> wrote: >> GiaThnYgeia wrote: >> >>> PS Suddenly, the noises in one's head that nobody else hears are >>> recorded by one's only true friend, the PC :)) :))) >> >> Paranormal activities :D >> >> I think it could be some voltage induced by physical contact. >> >> Think logically - if there is no mic or nothing plugged in to your inputs, >> then nothing can be recorded. > > Georges Charpak hypothesized the possibility of restoring the voices of > ancient potters "recorded" in the microscopic grooves of earthenware > deformed by their voices as they worked. > > Interesting idea, anyway. > >> regards >>
In case this wasn't clear: we're imagining clay being fashioned upon a potter's wheel, and the striations that occur in the clay as it is molded (which might possibly produce, according to Charpak's conjecture, a sort of analog audio recording of ambient sounds in the finished product, e.g.--"Hey Mosche, got any more of that Egyptian beer we were drinking the other day?" spoken in some obsolete language no one has ever heard before). -- "It might be a vision--of a shell, of a wheelbarrow, of a fairy kingdom on the far side of the hedge; or it might be the glory of speed; no one knew." --Mrs. Ramsay, speculating on why her little daughter might be dashing about, in "To the Lighthouse," by Virginia Woolf.