• fiat_lux 🆕 🏠@lemmy.zip
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    “While cavitation occurs at low frequencies and destroys both viruses and tissues through the collapse of gas bubbles, acoustic resonance operates at high frequencies of 3–20 MHz,”

    Brb, making a blanket out of 802.11ah routers.

  • apotheotic (she/her)@beehaw.org
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    Bro it’d be fucking insane to walk into the doctors office and they prescribe you “stand in this box of ultrasound speakers for a little bit and you’ll get better”

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    Neat. I wonder whether this technique would he effective against retained viral matter (a la long COVID), or whether it’s limited to active infection.

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    Researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil

    Before even opening it I was thinking “this must be from not-USA”. Muito bem, Brasil!

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        “While cavitation occurs at low frequencies and destroys both viruses and tissues through the collapse of gas bubbles, acoustic resonance operates at high frequencies of 3–20 MHz,” he notes.

        Oops. Didn’t see that it was in mega hertz.

        I guess sound healing really does work, just at different frequencies.