# Does everyone run on a frequency?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-everyone-run-on-a-frequency/57916>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 14, 2001, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-everyone-run-on-a-frequency/57916 "2001-03-14T06:10:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Heath\_Doolin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Heath\_Doolin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heath_Doolin)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2001, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-everyone-run-on-a-frequency/57916/1 "2001-03-14T06:10:43Z")

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This question popped into my mind as I watched a future “enforcement” weapon being explained on a show. The ‘gun’, I think, was a sound emitter that shot a frequency to cause people in its path to become violently ill I believe it caused their internal organs to vibrate…something that sounds probably as bad as it feels.

Now if this is a possibility, is there a possibility that you can focus a certain frequency to destroy things internally? Or even shatter bones? Is something of this extent possible (god I hope not).

Do we all run on different ‘frequencies’ or is there even such a thing in biological terms?

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**Author:** ![Farmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e495f1/32.png) [@Farmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2001, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-everyone-run-on-a-frequency/57916/2 "2001-03-14T08:02:04Z")

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I don’t know about that, but the other day I was listening to my trunktracker and heard my thoughts on 146.7531mhz.

It’s was pretty weird.

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**Author:** ![dylan\_73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecccb3/32.png) [@dylan\_73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dylan_73)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2001, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-everyone-run-on-a-frequency/57916/3 "2001-03-14T09:24:57Z")

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Yup. If you fire low frequency sound with enough power you can mush internal organs, I think…and it does sound (uhuh…) horrible. Too hungover to get a cite, but I think “SuperNature” had something about this (w00p! 2 cites from a discredited book in one week! 🙂 )

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**Author:** ![Arjuna34](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Arjuna34](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arjuna34)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2001, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-everyone-run-on-a-frequency/57916/4 "2001-03-14T13:50:25Z")

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If it’s loud enough to “mush” your organs, I doubt the exact frequency matters much. Humans aren’t a solid structure, and don’t have a resonant frequency, like bridges.

You may be interested in this GQ thread, current on page two: [How loud does something have to be to kill someone?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=63206)

Arjuna34