{"id":870,"date":"2008-10-07T08:07:38","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T13:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=870"},"modified":"2008-10-07T08:07:38","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T13:07:38","slug":"what-goes-up-must-go-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/870","title":{"rendered":"What Goes Up Must \u2026 Go Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An audio &#8220;illusion.&#8221;  The pitch increases, and seems to continue when you replay the clip.<\/p>\n<p><object class=\"embed\" width=\"425\" height=\"264\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" \ndata=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ugriWSmRxcM?fs=1\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ugriWSmRxcM?fs=1\" \/><em>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video<\/em><\/object><\/p>\n<p>This phenomenon is known as Shepard&#8217;s paradox; the ending tones are the same as the beginning ones, so it&#8217;s the auditory equivalent of Escher&#8217;s &#8220;Ascending and Descending&#8221; perpetual staircase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An audio &#8220;illusion.&#8221; The pitch increases, and seems to continue when you replay the clip. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video This phenomenon is known as Shepard&#8217;s paradox; the ending tones are the same &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/870\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[97],"class_list":["post-870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illusions","tag-audio-illusion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}