https://soundcloud.com/salfordspeaks/professor-trevor-cox-at-the-replica-of-stonehenge-at-the-university-of-salford

via Bobby Owsinski’s Blog

There’s been all sorts of scholarly theories about the purpose of Stonehenge over the years, but it turns out that the one characteristic rarely looked at is its acoustics. A research team from the University of Salford in England reproduced the historic site in 1/12th size and placed it inside an anechoic chamber to discover that its acoustic properties were profound and unexpected.

Similar experiments had actually been done before but never reproduced the same results because of the shape of the stones, which as it turns out, is critical. In this study, the exact shapes were reproduced via 3D printing and laser measurement. Not only that, all 157 of the original stones were included, instead of the 100 that are currently left standing.

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