That's the way you can shatter a wine glass by matching its resonant frequency (and the way urban legend says you can make people poo themselves by making their bowels resonate with the 'brown note'). With sound being vibrations, if you hit something with a noise at its natural resonant frequency, it'll vibrate more in response. "The reason was that this song contained a frequency that matched the natural resonant frequency of the hard drive that these laptops were using."īasically, different objects are more inclined to vibrate at different frequencies. "The weirdest thing was if you played this song, it not only crashed the laptop playing it, it also crashed a laptop that was sitting next to it, that wasn't playing the song at all," Chen explained inĪ video. But this was nothing to do with a virus or corrupted file or anything, it was all about the music. It was able to crash some of their competitors laptops too.
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In the days of Windows XP, Microsoft's Raymond Chen says, a manufacturer discovered that playing Rhythm Nation-and apparently only Rhythm Nation-could crash some of their laptops. According to Microsoft, one of the sonic frequencies in Rhythm Nation coincided with the natural resonant frequencies of a particular laptop hard drive, making it crash. This was nothing to do with the file itself even being near another laptop playing the song could cause a crash. I have a new favourite bug: Janet Jackson's 1989 certified choon Rhythm Nation had an uncanny ability to crash certain old laptops.
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