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February 17th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
By
Fiona Macrae
Last updated at 6:16 PM on 16th February 2012
Its iconic stones are said to mark an ancient burial site, form an astronomical calendar or even be a monument to the fertility gods.
But no one has claimed Stonehenge to be the result a trick of the mind – until now.
A major science conference heard yesterday that the blueprint for the mystical stone circle came other-worldly visions triggered by music.
While the theory may seem outlandish, legend has it that some stone circles were formed when maidens who danced in a circle to magical pipers were turned to stone.
Mysterious: No-one knows why, or how, Stonhenge was built. But an independent scientist has suggested they were laid out according to a sonic illusion
The intriguing idea comes from Steve Waller, an independent scientist who believes art and architecture are inspired not only by what we see but also by what we hear.
He is particularly interested in the effect of something called an interference pattern – the variation in sound created when two noises collide.
Depending on how they interact, sections of the sound can be dampened.
The effect can confuse the brain, tricking it into thinking that there is a building or other structure in the way, blocking the sound, the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s annual conference in Vancouver heard
The first experiment ran by Dr Waller demonstrated this – and tied it to Stonehenge and other stone circles.
He took two groups of volunteers, blindfolded them and led them in a circle around a pair of recorders that were being played.
They were then asked to turn away, take off their blindfolds and sketch what they thought had been between them and the noise.
Drawings and descriptions included circles of pillars, solid objects, openings, archways and tall vertical slats.
Dr Waller said: ‘I believe that could have happened 5,000 years ago just as easily as it can be demonstrated today.
‘That if these people in the past were dancing in a circle around two people playing the flute, or whistle or whatever they had back then, and they were experiencing the loud and soft and loud and soft regions that happen when an interference pattern is set up, they would have felt there were these massive objects arranged in a ring.
‘It would have been a completely baffling experience they would not have been able to explain.
‘Anything that was mysterious like that in the past was considered to be magical and supernatural. And I think that was what motivated them to build the actual structure that matched this impression.
‘It was like a vision they received from another world.’
Out of this world: Steve Waller believes the arrangement of the monolithic standing stones mimics interference patterns created when two sounds collide
To test his theory further, he travelled from La Mesa, California, to Stonehenge. There, he showed that the stones do block sound in the way he expected.
When asked if his findings could be mere coincidence, Dr Waller, who hopes to publish his research in a scientific journal, said that legend backs him up.
‘There is a legend where two pipers went out in a field and enticed maidens to dance around them and they all turned to stone.
‘There’s also a tradition that Merlin magically constructed Stonehenge. Obviously that’s not true, but there’s a lot of mythology around Merlin that he was imprisoned in walls of air invisible to others, but visible to him.
‘That’s exactly the auditory illusion you get. All these legends and that kind of tradition tend to support that it’s not coincidence.
‘There has really not been a good explanation on why our ancestors were hauling these tonnes of stone and building these structures. We have no idea what was behind it. This would explain their motivation.’
But Mike Pitts, editor of British Archaeology magazine and a leading expert on Stonehenge, was sceptical about Dr Waller’s theory.
He said: ‘The archaeology of Stonehenge in many ways is still a mystery.
‘But we do know is that it was something that emerged over several centuries and wasn’t thought up overnight.
‘There is no question it’s main axis is aligned along the mid-summer sunrise and mid-winter sunset and there is widespread agreement that it was used for cremation burials.
‘I don’t think you’ll find many archaeologists who know about Stonehenge giving this particular acoustic theory a lot of time.’
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What has this guy been smoking?
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So, flute players cause auditory hallucinations which then make people move huge stones weighing many tons for miles, dig holes, and stand them upright into a huge circle ? Next theory please…..
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I presume Van Gogh’s art was only half as good then? With only one ear. Another crackpot theory just to get your name in the papers.
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I’m not certain about Stonehenge but I’m pretty sure Jethro Tull was.
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Yes it used to be multi story but that old flute music started up they just went nuts and this is the result.
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What kill me is the word science? I hope there was no tax payers money involved in this study. Being a Druid i can tell you stonehedge is all about the planet venus. Do your research.
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It was built by hippies.
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I dont mind admitting I’ve been known to like a bit of frenzied flute playing on the odd occasion.
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Well there you go, mystery solved.
Must have been quite a few flute players and dancers in Egypt as well.
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Steve Waller has been listening to too much flute music.
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