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Is there a real chance that there is a multiverse?
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RE: Is there a real chance that there is a multiverse?
(September 8, 2016 at 7:34 pm)Arkilogue Wrote: As an interesting side note into the study of vibration, the naturally arising mathematic order in music gives us the 8 note octave with 12 semitones.  
http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~mrubinst/tuning/12.html
It does nothing of the sort. The naturally arising "mathematic order" of sound very quickly leads to unacceptable levels of dissonance, and tuning systems are a (largely failed) attempt to reconcile the mathematical chaos. It relies on the deliberate DE-tuning of notes in order to mediate a variety of harmonic and melodic functions in something like a piano keyboard, while still keeping close enough to harmonics that the ear will accept it.

It doesn't work very well, by the way. The major/minor chords in a 12-tone system sound like total shit. It's only because we hear this shit all the time that we've come to accept say a piano sound as "beautiful." If you hear a scale tempered to a single key, and then listen to an equal-tempered piano, I guarantee you'll feel like throwing up. The major and especially the minor thirds are noticeably sour, for example, and the leading tone, if derived from the V chord's natural harmonics, is pretty far from any of the harmonics of the tonic.

It seems to me you've been thinking about the numbers 8 and 12, and you want to make a numerological link to sound. But you might as well start making numerological links to the number "10," on the basis that we have 10 fingers-- it's a useless relationship to draw, or to think about.
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RE: Is there a real chance that there is a multiverse? - by bennyboy - September 8, 2016 at 10:21 pm

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