Social Question  ETpro's avatar  Why ohm? (See details.)  Asked
by ETpro (33437 points ) March 9th, 2011  Eastern meditation
seems to always involve a low, droning “Ohmmmmmm…” sound. Why
ohm? I’ve done a bit of testing, and I can’t find anything that
comes close to sounding as right. For instance. try close
substitutes like:  None of those work nearly as well. But why?
Is there something cosmically special about the name we in the
West chose to attach to the basic unit of electrical resistance?
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moderated (Writing Standards) snowberry's avatar  Your other
samples seem to be variations of actual words in English, or
sounds we make while trying to collect our thoughts. I don’t
know if Ohm has a meaning in the original language, but if it
does, it’s probably not one of the words above. I don’t think it
has a meaning, and that’s on purpose, but it would be
interesting to know.  iamthemob's avatar  The Om moves from
shapless sound, openness, void and