Have You Heard It?

"The more I study nature, the more I am amazed at the Creator." 

Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)

Nothing says summer like a garden of flowers!

Every Tuesday morning Jerry has breakfast with the guys down at the local restaurant. They talk about a lot of different things, but last Tuesday I got a chuckle.

"You'll never believe what I heard this morning," Jerry said. "You can hear corn grow!" Well, I admit, I'd never heard that before.

Blooms and colors that take your breath away!

I just had to look it up on the internet to see if it was true. And you know what? It is!

On PHYS.org, the Acoustical Society of America wrote an article dated November 2016, sharing of a scientific experiment to prove this fact: "On a quiet night you can hear the corn grow. It may seem funny, but the University of Nebraska proved it does by attaching microphones to directly record the sounds of corn growing." And this is a big deal.

"Douglas Cook at New York University argues that by listening to corn you can prevent corn stalk failure, a problem scientists have been battling with over the years . . . he is leading a group of plant scientists that have teamed up with engineers and have designed special sensors that expand the sound the corn makes during its formation, helping them pinpoint the moment something goes wrong with its development."

Finding treasures as you drive down a road!

"What man has written man may read; But God fills every root and seed With cryptic words, too strangely set For mortals to decipher yet." 

 Charles Dalmon (1862-1917)

I learned the cracking/popping sound occurs around the V15 growth stage and what you hear is the cell walls of the stalk expanding. And scientists have also discovered that corn grows through breakage, much like your muscles do when you work out; by tearing themselves up, healing, and then growing stronger."

There are videos online where you can experience this for yourself:  https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=can+you+hear+corn+grow&view=detail&mid=192E6EADE8B9687EA9D4192E6EADE8B9687EA9D4&FORM=VIRE

One of the men having breakfast said he'd been in Nebraska and stayed on a farm that had a 1,000 acres growing corn. "It is real," he said. "On quiet nights you can hear the corn grow and the crickets. I heard it."

I guess you're never to old to learn something. A little fact that is making a huge difference in growing corn.

 And the littlest of blooms that delight your sense of beauty!

God never made anything that was nonsense. His creation is magnificent. It's one of those things where you say, "My God is awesome!"

"The best thing is to go from nature's God down to nature; and if you once get to nature's God, and believe him, and love him, it is surprising how easy it is to hear music in the waves, and songs in the wild whisperings of the winds; to see God everywhere in the stones, in the rocks, in the rippling brooks, and hear him everywhere, in the lowing of cattle, in the rolling of thunder, and in the fury of tempests. "Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)

. . . and in the sound of corn growing!

 Enjoy all the beauty from our Master Creator!