Re: The Note That Began All....

["O'Neal, Kevin W." <Kevin.ONeal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

	>From: "Schrade, Scott" 
	>Subject: Re: The Note That Began All.... 
>
> I just saw the fascinating two hours about this on PBS as Scott suggested.

Shit!  It was *two* hours!
Damn, I passed out at about 8:45 (no offense to the subject on the TV.  Simple case of exhaustion).

>Pretty cool shit, huh?  Are you filled with the wonder of Science?  ;-)
>The final hour airs next Tuesday.

I'm filled!  I'm filled!
(?)

>And even more ironically, Pete was coming up with those Lifehouse ideas
>right around the time String Theory was beginning in earnest (late '60s /
>early '70s).

A visionary to be sure.

>But before we go recommending Pete for a Nobel Prize we should realize that
>there are differences between Pete's "story" & String Theory as it's known.

Isn't it really the "Sting Philosophy" ??
Can't test it.
Can't see it.
Wouldn't want to be it.
(?)

>However, one could argue (and many physicists do) that at the very moment of
>the Big Bang, when all the universe was unimaginably hot, all energy strings
>*were* of the same vibration, meaning that there were countless identical 
>"notes,"

So, then, Pete was right!
There once *was* a note.
Was it Pure and Easy though?
*That's* what I want to know.

>In
>that sense, Pete may have been "correct."

Ha!  I told ya!

> the string vibra-
>tions on musical instruments, the adjustable chambers of a French Horn?
>Why does it compel us so?

Did ya notice that the Cello was the primary musical example.
Ohhhhhh yeah!

>Is music (vibrations, resonance) something fundamental that we humans sense
>on an unconscious level? 

The intelligent ones.
But hearing in general is based on vibrations, etc.
Music can just be a nice combination of notes and vibrations.
So, obviously, vibrations are integral to how we perceive the world around us.

>Is that why we search it out when we're happy,
>sad,
>excited, bored, etc.?  Why should music, or being in tune, be pleasing to
>us?

It is the most pure form of emotional communication.

>Einstein's brain-storm that gravity
>is simply the curvature of space (and time) made acutely aware to us via the
>warping caused by massive things (planets, stars, galaxies).

*That* blew my mind.

>So, when Pete tosses his guitar up in the air (!), it's not being "pulled"
>back to the ground by a force necessarily, it's simply tumbling back down
>curved space in the only path it can follow 

And if he threw his guitar while on the sun, we wouldn't see it for 8 minutes later!

>(Incidentally, even small things like people cause their own tiny space-time
>warping.  It's way too small an effect to notice but it *does* exist.  Every
>time you jump up in the air you pull the Earth *ever so slightly* upwards to
>meet you!  It's true, I tell you!

Is it logical then to conclude that some people have a greater space-time warping than others?  ;-)

New ad campaign.....

"Eat at McDonalds.
Increase your space-warp."

Kevin in VT