There is a fort in India (called Golconda). It's main gate has a unique design such that if someone stands in the middle and claps, it can be heard at a spot 200ft away, loud and clear. but it isn't that audible for persons standing nearby the guy who claps
+Kevin V The internet's probably not meant for you. Try doing something more productive with your life. Maybe you might just end up making something out of it.
Why isnt there a video anywhere, of someone playing an instrument in the circle. record it with industry level equipment so that we can truly appreciate the acoustic value of that circle
@@TheOneAndOnlyMrH Wonderful idea! ...elevating the level of consciousness and beauty is always a good idea. But since you can't fit a whole orchestra on that spot ...it would have to be a Bose system CD player for instance?
Notice how the echo is more intense when you are closer to the ground. The surrounding planters are echoing back the sound source from multiple directions and when they meet, they are combining, amplifying the original sound. A listener outside the circle, would probably be in an area where the sound waves are being cancelled out, the same principle used in noise canceling headphones. Simple explanation, but still a very cool effect.
You all are so wrong.. ask my mother-in-law, she will tell you that she is the center of universe and the entire creation, even the sun revolves around her. huh!
She wouldn't be too wrong in saying that. Since the universe is assumably infinite, any point in the universe can be thought of as the center with other objects moving wrt that point.
It's funny because she has a point the observers are at the center of the universe their is no center but everything expands equally away from each other and by observing something it makes everything expand from you equally thus making the observer the center
This "center of the universe" pop culture landmark is in the middle of Boston Ave pedestrian bridge, what used to be Boston Ave between 1st and Archer streets. The taller buildings built later and the other structures are why this acoustic anomaly now exists on this bridge that once went through as a street. The sculpture, Artificial Cloud, was the 1991 creation of Bob Haozous for Mayfest. Installed in 1992.
At the center, the sound reflected by the planters arrive in the center at the same time and each of them, with roughly the same sonic signature, will reinforce each other and sound louder to the listener in the center.Once off center, there will be a time difference between the reflections, and between each reflection and source... a small difference in arrival time of each reflection will result in sonic cancellations and that's why things will sound weirdly softer when off center.Using multiple sources of the same sound to multiply output power and using time differences to shape the output projection is how line array speakers in big concerts work!
@@51-FS as someone who has been building DIY speakers and planning acoustic treatment in my home theater, I'm willing to bet yes. Current pillows are stuffed with Polyfil and should be able to absorb frequencies from 250Hz and up; the lowest fundamental frequency of a male "chest" voice is around 250Hz, so that reinforcing effect should be greatly diminished. Heck, if you line up random objects/people against the floor/planter corner, that would scatter the reflections and greatly diffuse the acoustic energy of the returning sound too.
No Cz literally it’s the only rap song they know In Tulsa! I lived here in the 90’s, every nightclub would play country or rock music then gansta’s paradise would come on & even the good ol cowboys would get their 2step on to some Coolio…Ohh & Hey Macarania! Back to the East Coast I went with the only take away from my time in OK worth remembering “The Center of the Universe”! Sad but 💯% True!
I lived in Tulsa in the 80s. Will have to locate this and check it out the next time I'm there. Noted the drawings in the center, which are the Eye of Horus, a pentagram and an ankh. Don't know anything about Dakki Ogg, but the others have occult meanings.
Its just the curved concrete "planters? benches?" arranged in a circle-happens anywhere things that reflect sound are in an arc or circle-like an amphitheatre, etc
Is that like the museum in How I Met Your Mother, where when you stand in one spot you can hear what the person is saying on the other as if they are standing right behind you?
Just try to imagine the brick circle as the walls of an empty well and you could explain the echo near bottom. But the question is, is it really designed like a two dimensional well.
The statue it the end of the world. One side is planes that drop bombs and the other side is all of the dead people and the top of it is the mushroom cloud of the bomb
aumsvillain1 holy shyt ur totally right,, how morbid.. I got a bad vibe from that weird obelisk-like monolith, it is definitely rooted in esoteric symbolism.. not to mention the eye of Horus and that pentagram drawn into "the center of the universe," how creepy
yes man...I too think you are right....the ankh represents The life and if we connect both the ankh and sculpture then it could mean the end of life....if it could be read correctly and in depth then it might reveal some future
Tulsa was a big aviation hub in the early days which is what the planes represent also tulsa is originally Indian territory and tulsa in creek means old town..the arrow representing this and the armless looking people resemble the oil drillers of old as tulsa was a booming oil town..now I'm honestly only guessing on the last one lol...however I'm sure it in no way is meant to represent the end of the world..
Actually he is right. The statue is actually called "Artificial Cloud Statue." Probably sums it up right there, however it was created by a Chiricahua Apache artist. It is supposed to represent man's love of technology and the destructiveness that can come from that.
Apparently the effect was unintentional by the designers. I could leave my house and go downtown to see it (again), but it's not like there's any sign or anything that explains it at the site (Get with it, Tulsa Downtown Unlimited!) . But a Google search turns up several results. Unfortunately, RU-vid won't let me copy and paste into the comments.
I feel like the type of concrete there is what causes the echo ... The bricks have small holes in them where sound disapates and the gray concrete pieces are solid and bounce of sound ???
I would say the center of the circle is an opening to an old well, or pipeline... and there really is no ancient "center of the universe" secret about it. Sorry if I ruined the fun
Strange that I find this "vlog" that has not uoaded anything after this video until the same day that i visit the spot and find this video when looking for info about this... Its also the day the "vlog" uploaded its second video, 7 years later. It was built in 1991, the designer/builder has not publicly disclosed how the effect works. The best guess is the circle of planter boxes act as parabolic dishes and the center of the circle is the focal point of them. The tower is a sculpture installed after the sound sculpture that pokes fun at people looking at the fake cloud instead of the real clouds in the sky. 7 years after this upload the circle has deteriorated a lot, at some point a series of bricks were replaced with lights. There is a plan to redo the area in 2024.
Always constructive, never hating - Manual white balance: learn it, use it. Research before discussing anything: a good speaker asks his audience to join him in discussion but never by shining light on his own ignorance. You missed the more fascinating claim about the center of the universe; it's said that nobody on the outside of the circle can hear you talking in the middle.
kmW, not really. I copied and now pasting part of the article from: wanderwisdom.com/travel-destinations/TulsaCenteroftheUniverse webpage which explains: In reality, your voice does become extremely distorted when heard from outside the circle. Supposedly, the parabolic reflectivity of the circular planter walls causes the distortion. Many people have spent a lot of time studying how this effect is made, but there has been no consensus on what causes it. Maybe it is the ghosts of a parallel dimension toying with us, or maybe it’s a simple vortex where cosmic energies collide. Whatever the causes of the distortions are, it is truly an amazing place.
the center of the universe is in your clothes dryer, it's where all your Missing socks have gone and change is left behind for payment of the socks ...
