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http://www.explainthatstuff.com/quartzclockwatch.html

I have a quartz countertop. If I pass electricity through it, it will vibrate.
If I connect "stuff" to it, my countertop could be a giant clock, right?

quartz is a very interesting thing: it's made of silicon, and dioxide, and silicon is also in sand. At surface temperatures and pressures, quartz is the most stable form of silicon dioxide. As the pressure increases the temperature at which quartz will lose stability also increases.
Sand in all over the place here. It has silicon in it.
Why not bind all the sand on the beach with dioxide? Why hasn't that happened?
"Dioxide" is a term that means something is bound to two oxygen atoms ("di" = two, oxide = bound to oxygen), e.g. carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, etc

if you squeeze a quartz crystal, it makes a tiny electric current. The opposite is also true: if you pass electricity through quartz, it vibrates at a precise frequency (it shakes about an exact number of times each second). they use quartz because of its unique piezoelectric properties. when voltage is applied to a quartz crystal, the crystal will vibrate, and when shaped like a bar or tuning fork it will hum at a certain frequency, depending on shape of the crystal and voltage applied.

quartz do this well because it absorbs almost no energy, making a stable frequency.

the watch will then have little amplified mics so to say, to pick up the hum of the crystal, when the watch knows the size, shape of the crystal and the voltage applied it can translate that into minutes, seconds, so on.
What would happen if I passed electricity through my kitchen countertop?
and
Why hasn't all the sand on the beach combined with dioxide, to make one giant quartz crystal?? Huh?

amazing timepieces: http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/ga ... ctures.htm

Now, your turn to think of a GOOD question, apply some science to it and mix it respectfully with Christianity, and God, and post it here.

I think this could be very fun, and lead to a lot of bible studies.
 
what your are calling that is called piezoelectric and cars use that alot. the knock sensor is one. this is used to tell if a cylinder misfires. and also the oil pressure gauge does the same thing but with a chip on it that measures the voltage produced and determines the signal to send to the guage.

i just wanted to clarify what you were talking about and to add all computers uses a quartz crystal to perform functions and to time then , ie when one is finished and another starts. its rated in hertz and called clock speed.if you cut up that quartz into to pieces both will pulse the same rate.
 
What is a knock sensor?
And, its awesome to think if you cut up a quartz crystal, all would vibrate the same.
Remember in the OT, where God says the stars sang?
Do you think the earth, and minerals like quartz, sing praises to God?
I know that sounds pretty far out, and wacko, but, the bible says the trees clap their hands,
and the entire UNIVERSE praised God, at one time.
Jesus said He could make the ROCKS praise Him, if He had wanted them to.
Maybe we can not hear what God hears, and that is, His creation praising Him.
Here, in Job:
[6] Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
[7] When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Here, in Isaiah: [11] So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.
[12] For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

The mountains can sing, the stars can sing, everything God hath made, can and does, sing praises to God, except for man!!
For now, I'm going to belive that the vibrations in quartz, which are so precise, were put there by God, for the purposes of praising Him.
I just think that's a LOVELY thought.
Do other crystals and minerals vibrate like quartz, or give off measurable sounds or such?

jasoncran said:
what your are calling that is called piezoelectric and cars use that alot. the knock sensor is one. this is used to tell if a cylinder misfires. and also the oil pressure gauge does the same thing but with a chip on it that measures the voltage produced and determines the signal to send to the guage.

i just wanted to clarify what you were talking about and to add all computers uses a quartz crystal to perform functions and to time then , ie when one is finished and another starts. its rated in hertz and called clock speed.if you cut up that quartz into to pieces both will pulse the same rate.
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I mean, think about it. jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald, the fifth onyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chrysoprase, the eleventh jacinth, the twelfth amethyst. And the twelve gates were twelve pearls, each of the gates made of a single pearl, and the street of the city was pure gold, transparent as glass.

all of these were created by Jesus, who created everything, and today, a lot of the devil's crowd has perverted the beauty and purpose of crystals and rocks, making them something occult and devilish,
which is what the devil tries to do with all things God made.
If we get old, the devil tries to make us envy youth, if we have curly hair, the devil sells hair straighteners,
if we go bald, the devil has hair transplant clinics,
if we have green eyes, the devil comes up with blue contact lenses, ANYTHING TO GO AGAINST THE ORIGINAL PLAN OF GOD.
So, without getting involved in the occult garbage of crystals and such, what other crystals and minerals and rocks have properties like quartz? you know, that vibrate, or have some other unearthly property?
do u know?
 
a knock sensor is a quarts crystal placed near a cylinder(s) that is calibrated to vibrate when a misfire occurs. it tells the computer that the engine has a miss and the ecm will either adjusting timing or see if it the cylinder fires at all. as other sensors can see if the gas is being burned and also tell the ecm where the engine is at and which cylinder should fire.

if it miss and its not correctable the ecm will kill gas to that cylinder and or fuel(both on some cars). and the check engine light will come on.
 
THIS IS WHAT I WAS TRYING TO EXPLAIN!!

READ THIS, then read the information below:
http://www.lifeinthebible.com/?page_id=108
It has been found that stars of different size emit different tones.
Larger star give off lower tones than smaller stars. When recorded together this
produces a harmonic sound like unto an orchestra.
JOB 38:7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

What stars might sound like: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_ ... 355205.stm
quite eery to listen to, and to think God created this.
http://coraifeartaigh.wordpress.com/201 ... e-sound-...

now you can hear what particles smashing together sounds like. LHC Sound,
a group of particle physicists, musicians and artists in London, England,
are turning the data into musical sounds by measuring the energy from collisions.

“If you use the right software, you can get really nice music out of the particle
tracks,†physicist Lily Asquith, who works on the collider and with LHC Sound,
told the Washington Post.
http://article.wn.com/view/2010/06/23/S ... Simulate...
According to BBC News, using “sonification,†as this process is called,
will also better help the scientists pick out the God particle. They’re also
already noticing how musical things sound.

“We can hear clear structures in the sound, almost as if they had been
composed,†Richard Dobson,

http://godparticle.net/
I have known about the Hadron Collider, and it’s potential, which can be scary, some say this Hadron Collider
will cause mass destruction.
but, the God Particle thing is new.


Interesting to read about.

You can listen to the decay of a Higgs boson in the Atlas detector, or to a proton-proton
collision inside the LHC,†says Asquith. Other sounds -- created in collaboration with
a pair of musicians -- will be added later.

I have been talking for a few days now, with other Christians, about the stars singing, as was
written about in Job.

It’s called the Large Hadron Collider, and its purpose is simple but ambitious:
to crack the code of the physical world; to figure out what the universe is
made of; in other words, to get to the very bottom of things.

Starting sometime in the coming months, two beams of particles will race in
opposite directions around the tunnel, which forms an underground ring 17
miles in circumference. The particles will be guided by more than a thousand
cylindrical, supercooled magnets, linked like sausages. At four locations
the beams will converge, sending the particles crashing into each other at
nearly the speed of light. If all goes right, matter will be transformed by the violent collisions
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/ ... ticle/ac...

Pro and Con arguments: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lk2UkIbDQoI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety_of_ ... ollision...
I couldn’t find any arguments against, really.
?

Strangelet is the term given to a hypothetical microscopic lump of
‘strange matter’ containing almost equal numbers of particles called up,
down and strange quarks. According to most theoretical work, strangelets
should change to ordinary matter within a thousand-millionth of a second.

How earth sounds from space: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AVHXMLDvWA&feature=re...
Voyager from NASA picks up sounds from Jupiter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3fqE01YYWs&feature=re...
CERN’s website, on which I can not find the music talked about here:
Some of the sounds created so far can he heard on the website, including a musical
embodiment
of the Higgs Boson - the mysterious particle that is believed to give mass to matter
IF YOU FIND IT PLEASE LET ME KNOW!!
 
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