Dream #67
— February 15, 2026 at 5:30 am
Limerick
A colonel who loved pasta gricia
Sailed the Shannon to meet Kina
With guanciale packed tight
On a mamelon at night
While Henrik drew birds in Virginia
Sailed the Shannon to meet Kina
With guanciale packed tight
On a mamelon at night
While Henrik drew birds in Virginia
Haiku
Thick lava congeals—
radio waves carry songs
across ancient stone
radio waves carry songs
across ancient stone
What If
What if the volcanic mamelon formations that create narrow vents could be engineered as natural amplification systems for radio transmission, using the same geological principles that allowed ancient technologies to be lost and rediscovered across different civilizations?
Feasibility Assessment
Based on my search of the relevant research literature, I can now provide a scientific assessment of this speculative hypothesis.
## Scientific Assessment
**1. Is this hypothesis testable or purely speculative?**
This hypothesis is fundamentally **speculative** rather than testable in its current form. Mamelons are rock formations created by eruption of relatively thick or stiff lava through a narrow vent in the bedrock, where the lava congeals around the vent forming small hills. While geological amplification effects are well-documented in seismic research, there is no established scientific basis for connecting mamelon structures to radio wave amplification or to "ancient technologies lost and rediscovered."
**2. What existing research areas intersect with this idea?**
Several legitimate research areas touch on aspects of this hypothesis:
- **Geological amplification**: Seismic wave amplification occurs due to surface or subsurface topography and geology, with various factors focusing seismic energy, particularly geometry and composition of rock strata, when waves are reflected or overlap
- **Volcanic electromagnetic properties**: Electromagnetic methods are used to image lithology, geological discontinuities, and hydrothermal systems of volcanoes, and can monitor temporal changes in volcanic activity
- **Ancient technology studies**: Some Roman technologies were rediscovered during the Middle Ages, and certain ancient innovations remain enigmatic as they cannot be fully replicated or understood, challenging modern perceptions of ancient civilizations
However, no research connects these disparate fields in the way the hypothesis suggests.
**3. Key obstacles and required breakthroughs:**
The primary obstacles are fundamental physics limitations. Radio waves behave differently from seismic waves - geological amplification typically affects seismic waves at engineering frequencies (1-10 Hz) where signals show directional amplification in horizontal planes, but this mechanism doesn't apply to radio frequencies. The hypothesis would require revolutionary breakthroughs in understanding electromagnetic wave propagation through geological structures and demonstrable evidence of ancient radio technology, neither of which exists in the archaeological or geological record.
**PLAUSIBILITY rating: Physically Implausible**
The hypothesis conflates unrelated geological and electromagnetic phenomena without scientific basis, combines this with unsubstantiated claims about ancient technology, and proposes mechanisms that contradict established physics principles.
## Scientific Assessment
**1. Is this hypothesis testable or purely speculative?**
This hypothesis is fundamentally **speculative** rather than testable in its current form. Mamelons are rock formations created by eruption of relatively thick or stiff lava through a narrow vent in the bedrock, where the lava congeals around the vent forming small hills. While geological amplification effects are well-documented in seismic research, there is no established scientific basis for connecting mamelon structures to radio wave amplification or to "ancient technologies lost and rediscovered."
**2. What existing research areas intersect with this idea?**
Several legitimate research areas touch on aspects of this hypothesis:
- **Geological amplification**: Seismic wave amplification occurs due to surface or subsurface topography and geology, with various factors focusing seismic energy, particularly geometry and composition of rock strata, when waves are reflected or overlap
- **Volcanic electromagnetic properties**: Electromagnetic methods are used to image lithology, geological discontinuities, and hydrothermal systems of volcanoes, and can monitor temporal changes in volcanic activity
- **Ancient technology studies**: Some Roman technologies were rediscovered during the Middle Ages, and certain ancient innovations remain enigmatic as they cannot be fully replicated or understood, challenging modern perceptions of ancient civilizations
However, no research connects these disparate fields in the way the hypothesis suggests.
**3. Key obstacles and required breakthroughs:**
The primary obstacles are fundamental physics limitations. Radio waves behave differently from seismic waves - geological amplification typically affects seismic waves at engineering frequencies (1-10 Hz) where signals show directional amplification in horizontal planes, but this mechanism doesn't apply to radio frequencies. The hypothesis would require revolutionary breakthroughs in understanding electromagnetic wave propagation through geological structures and demonstrable evidence of ancient radio technology, neither of which exists in the archaeological or geological record.
**PLAUSIBILITY rating: Physically Implausible**
The hypothesis conflates unrelated geological and electromagnetic phenomena without scientific basis, combines this with unsubstantiated claims about ancient technology, and proposes mechanisms that contradict established physics principles.
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Hanging Rock, Victoria - Wikipedia
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Mamelon (volcanology) - Wikipedia
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The role of phreatomagmatism in the formation of complex monogenetic volcanic systems in a low-lying coastal plain - ScienceDirect
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Spatial distribution and alignments of volcanic centers: Clues to the formation of monogenetic volcanic fields - ScienceDirect
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Geomorphological Classification of Monogenetic Volcanoes and Its Implication to Tectonic Stress Orientation in the Middle Atlas Volcanic Field (Morocco)
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Electromagnetic signals on active volcanoes: Analysis of electrical resistivity and transfer functions at Taal volcano (Philippines) related to the 2010 seismovolcanic crisis - ScienceDirect
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Amplification of seismic waves beneath active volcanoes - NASA/ADS
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Amplification | U.S. Geological Survey
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(PDF) Wave propagation in complex geological structures and their effects on strong ground motion
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