The World of Sound Around Us

Living in a world surround by sound Todays world is truly a marvel of its own. We have made extraordinary advances in technology, transportation, education and engineering, but with all the advantages that come with these advancements in the modern world, disadvantages come with it also. We have become well informed about diseases, psychological, and health. Along with this came tons of research on how to be healthier, how to eat correctly and how to take preventative measure to ensure that you do not get sick, we have gone to extreme lengths to help fix and prevent vision lost. So as you can see todays modern society has pretty much covered everything, well not quite yet. Its sad to say but society has over looked sound. Sound is all around us all day and all night, even when we think its completely quite it actually is not. Our hearing is something that we take for granted in our day to day lives, but there is something not many people know and that is your hearing does not come back. Sound is a mechanical wave that is an oscillation of pressure transmitted through a solid, liquid, or gas, composed of frequencies within the range of hearing and of a level sufficiently strong to be heard, or the sensation stimulated in organs of hearing by such vibrations. [The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition] So when comes down to it, all sound is is tons of molecules wether being gas, liquid or solid that collide together in a wave formation. But what transforms that energy into “sound” as we perceive it, this is where the ear comes in. The ear can be divided into three main parts: the outer ear (Pinna), the middle ear and the inner ear. The outer ear is responsible for helping us locate the original location of the sound, like if its above, bellow, behind or in front of us. It also helps to funnel and focus sound waves on their way to the middle ear. The middle ear contains the auditory canal, which ends at the eardrum, or tympanic