How feasible is it that music could be the key to understanding the universe?

Question

Everything has a natural rhythm, all molecules vibrate at a particular rate and resonance. The planets move in the same way as the molecules in an atom. Every person can distinguish the difference between a major and a minor key, no matter where they are from. Music is a universal language, but is it more than that? Is it god? =oD

Answer 1

Music is a universal language? That's news to me. Last time I checked, sound required a medium in which to travel, and the vast majority of the universe is an empty vacuum, meaning no sound. So no, I doubt music is anything significant other than the variable, travelling compression and expansion of molecules. Sound also doesn't orbit, and isn't affected really by gravity, planets are.

If anything, light is more likely to be the magic element connecting the universe. It's particle, and it's wave. It goes anywhere and everywhere. Everyone experiences it. It goes at the fastest speed possible, and no other object can go faster than it. It's the key to both space and time.

Answer 2

Music is harmony of musical notes, the universe is harmony of energy/matter. Although it have similarities, i do not think it is in any way near being the "key" to comprehending the universe and its capabilities.  

Answer 3

That's probably the most beautifully worded question I have read on here.

I love Lachesis answer.  I am not going to play for the 10 points, give it to her. I am happy I got to read such a nice question and answer.

Answer 4

I think you can understand the universe through understanding any one thing.

God is everywhere.

Answer 5

when you get right down to it, music is mathematics and i believe math is the key to understanding the universe. I think it is the key to discovering our origins and the origins of the universe and possibly who or what this god we all obsess over is.

I know music affects the mood of the person who hears it and there have been shown to be physiological affects to melody..so maybe:)

Answer 6

As feasible as trying to understand why and how a r****d like GW Bush leads the world's greatest, most powerful and influential nation in the world.

Answer 7

The Pythagoreans discovered the harmony caused by vibrations of a violin string. Similarly it is believed in "string theory" that subatomic vibrations of strings is what makes things what they are. In the same way a certain vibration will make a C note on a string, whereas a certain vibration at a subatomic level will create a water particle or something else. In this sense I suppose we could say that music could help us understand the universe!

Answer 8

We use music and sound to express ourselves everyday.Sound is not a god because we humans,we make sound,we create sound we form sound we control sound, so how can it be a god?.we are its gods cos we created it and we control it.

Answer 9

Some scientists now think/believe that science is running out of road and that future discoveries will be in the universe of magic.

Do not confuse magic with conjuring tricks.

Some people believe that the ancient civilisation of Egypt may have been part magic and part science.

Placing the great pyramid more or less exactly in it's praticlar alignment is not difficult [scientifically] when you know something about the movement of the stars and planets in the heavens.  These will give the measurements.

However, coming to the above point in thought, may only be possible by some magic means.

Think of this question and try and come up with an answer.

Where does the human mind reside?  Is it in the brain or the big toe on our right foot?

No one has come up with a safisfactory answer to the above question so far as I know.

It gets even more complicated when you discover that Dr Christian Barnard [world's first heart transplant surgeon] said that the human brain remains active for up to 9 [nine] days after climical death has been determined.

What are we thinking after death?  And, is this the point at which the 'mind/soul' takes over and moves into a different dimention?

What?

Answer 10

Music is food for the soul, sustenace for the spirit, echoing our thoughts and innermost feelings.

Modern loud noises are mostly an aberration upon the eardrums, as becomes life when attuned to it.

You are what you eat, feed your mind upon and dwell your thoughts over ...

Answer 11

Interestingly, Pythagoras thought something very similar. He did, however, reduce most of music down to a mathematical expression (hence his reverence for mathematics). He believed that all of the universe, including the planets and stars, were governed by mathematical harmonies that corresponded well to music.