A CREATION OG PERCEPTION EXPERIENCE
Wave Mapping
Change a wave.
See the difference. Hear the difference.
What becomes easier to perceive
when interference is reduced?
Choose an example, change one thing, and notice.
Matching waves reinforce each other.
Try Add Interference, then move the slider left. The underlying waves stay the same. Listen again to compare.
Explore the settings
Move between musical notes from 108–864 Hz. All notes use A4 = 432 Hz with twelve equal semitones per octave.
Wave A
Wave B
At 0%, B keeps its chosen phase offset. Increasing fluctuation varies that offset over time. The pitch controls set A432 carrier notes; fluctuating phase and random interference add other frequency components.
What did you notice?
Could you follow the underlying pattern more easily with less interference? Compare Reinforce with Shifting Phase too. What changes in the shape, the sound, or your attention?
Across Nathan Garrett’s books, coherence describes coordination that supports perception and response while allowing difference. Reducing interference creates room to recognize what is already present. This experience offers a small, tangible way to explore that theme.
Coherence, interference, and this example
For these equal-pitch waves, coherence means a stable relative phase. Reinforce and Cancel both have it. Shifting Phase models reduced coherence by varying B’s phase. Different pitches can form an orderly pattern too.
The interference slider adds a separate random disturbance to the combined signal. Reducing it reveals the known signal without changing the sources’ coherence. In physics, interference also includes the reinforcing and cancelling of waves; it is not always an obstacle.
The books use these ideas more broadly to explore human experience. A generated wave is an analogy for that exploration, not a measurement of a person’s inner state.
Book connections: The Frequency of Love, chapter 12; The Physics of Forgiveness, Compassion & Presence, “Why Coherence Matters”; The Master of Energy & The Holy Grail, pp. 102–103. Wave definitions: OpenStax.
Here, the signals are generated, so we know what went into them. In the wider Wave Mapping research, the next question is which patterns in real observations hold up when tested.
This experience demonstrates wave relationships. It does not forecast real-world events.
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Discover a relationship. Then shape something of your own.