The Cosmic Symphony – Overtones of String Theory (PDF)

BOOK IV IN THE "HOW THINGS WORK" SERIES (PDF Download) You might be asking yourself how something so complicated can sound so beautiful? When you listen to a traditional fugue, such as Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor, the music takes on an almost divine nature. This is intentional. This is mathematical. This music is not subjective, it is objective; mathematically designed to bring about the proper response. It is the reason test scores in math have been reported to increase when students study music, or even listen to specific music written by specific composers such as Bach and Mozart.Pythagoras perceived all of reality to be an expression of abstract mathematics. This mathematical expression was manifested through the vibration of sound which he called The Music of the Spheres. The perceivable manifestations of this cosmology became the science of music as part of “physics.” The imperceivable manifestations became a reflection of pure mathematical abstraction and reasoning as pa