Ozone's Diamagnetism

Ok, so we have established that there are things we cannot see which nevertheless exist. Ultraviolet and infrared light rays have been mentioned as examples. Humans cannot see this spectrum, but other creatures can and do, and use this spectrum for survival. This invisible spectrum not only exists, but affects reality. In a very real sense, these are “extra colors” that are invisible to us.

I have seen the light! NOT.

A conundrum.

Perhaps we can perceive the invisible with a sense other than our eyes? Yes! Often we can sense it with our noses. Photon interaction with oxygen atoms creates ozone, which has a specific, sweet odor. Ozone is formed by all electrical equipment, and the higher the frequency or voltage, the more ozone is formed. Ozone, being a physical material, is also reflective, capable of absorption and re-emittance of energy.

Now let us go further. Go put your nose next to your overheating stereo or computer. Take a whiff. In this case, you can't see the reflection, nor can you see the object, but it is there, since you can smell the effect – and after a while it gives you a headache and in the right quantities can even poison you—so stop sniffing and get back to reading. That very real smell, friends, was ozone. And that will mess with your sound quality. Ozone resists the formation of magnetic fields. This is a diamagnetic trait. The spectrum that ozone reflects back to the circuitry in your gear interacts with the electromagnetic energy of the music signals through intermodulation. This is audible. In quantum electrodynamic terms, intermodulation is a multitude of photon-electron interactions.

One needs only to spray pure oxygen into and all around well-warmed up gear to temporarily hear the utopian change in sound which is so very sought after and which has been so masterfully eluding our capture and control. The change in sound is due to the ambient photon-electron interplay. Remember, photons go through just about everything: plastic, glass, wood, rocks, brains. From their vantage point, there is not much difference between a hunk of plastic and a puff of air. We are extremely limited in our perception of what is really going on because we are so accustomed to relying only on the limitations of our eyes. But audio gear is a very cool tool that becomes for us a window into this unseen world.

For those who wish to understand more about quantum electrodynamics, I recommend you allocate the time (~10 hours) and watch these videos. It's a set of four priceless archival video recordings from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, of Nobel prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman - arguably the greatest science lecturer ever.