169db = heart stop?

[Stealth 10+ year member]

Yeah, and I heard that 8hz will cause involuntary bowel movements, too. Guess what? Unless you've been holding it in for several days, sound waves aren't powerful enough to do that.

well if they can use sound waves to dissolve kidney stones, then i'm pretty sure they ARE powerful enough "to do that"

You mention the analogy of parking a car on your chest causing you to stop breathing, and while it would sure be tough to breath, would that be enough to stop your heart as well? I do believe that you could survive that much pressure for a short time (though, obviously, given enough time, it would kill you).

yes your heart would stop, because the pressure from the car would instantly crush your ribcage, and crush the heart...

But, it's not 'that' strong.. I mean, you could grab a heart with your hands and crush it.. how strong can that be? It does a tremendous amount of work over time, but I'm under the impression (once I stop and think about it) that the heart is a pretty wussy muscle overall (you could stand on a heart and crush it.. stand on my chest and I can probabaly still breate (diaphram).. stand on my arm or leg and I can leverage myself up..)... I don't think it would take much to hold it still..

your heart's a long-term, reliable, stamina muscle... it's not meant for brute force, it's meant to continue steadily, constantly constricting and relaxing, constricting and relaxing, for your whole life. try tensing and relaxing the muscles in your arm every second, and try to keep that up for 20 minutes. chances are you won't be able to, you'll just be too tired. the heart is a unique muscle, it's meant to continue a steady (fairly steady) pace for your whole life. your arm's not. your arm is capable of strength, but not for long periods of time without breaks and rests in between

imagine if your heart took breaks from beating //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/suave.gif.858fc102f7646e678ee8af7e1fbc41d1.gif

the whole reason I belive this? I have a hard time breathing once the volume gets to a certian level.. shouldn't be much more than that to render all muscles useless.. or at least that's the way it looks to me.. *shrug*

the "tightness" you feel in your chest sometimes is usually due to the pressure... not really the dB or frequency... although it's true that usually you feel more pressure at higher dB and lower frequency.

 

[BIG_SUPERMAN72 10+ year member]

I love when ur chest hurts when u listen to a system. I remeber first couple weeks of my system being hooked up. My body would shake a bit at work after listening to it.