Category Archives: Music

The Glass Kingdom

Posted on May 19, 2026 by PlatoHagel

The power of the allegory is that it is not bound to one age. The cave changes form, but the structure remains: human beings mistaking shadows for reality, resisting painful illumination, and often distrusting those who return with wider sight. … Continue reading →

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The House That Memory Keeps

Posted on May 18, 2026 by PlatoHagel

Why this structure aids memory retention ————————————————————————————————— Why this structure aids memory retention The composition intentionally uses: These elements improve: The song is designed less as entertainment alone and more as mnemonic atmosphere — where meaning, repetition, and emotion reinforce … Continue reading →

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A Musical Score on Particles?

Posted on April 23, 2012 by PlatoHagel

Schema created by Vicinanza with an example bubble chamber particle track, which has been converted into a melody and then orchestrated as music. Image courtesy Domenico Vicinanza. Positrons – antiparticles of electrons, a trillionth of a meter in size – … Continue reading →

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Music of Hemispheres

Posted on January 12, 2007 by PlatoHagel

Hearing Colors, Tasting Shapes By Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and Edward M. Hubbard Modern scientists have known about synesthesia since 1880, when Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, published a paper in Nature on the phenomenon. But most have brushed … Continue reading →

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PLATO:Mathematician or Mystic ?

Posted on January 8, 2007 by PlatoHagel

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty, a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and … Continue reading →

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Understanding the Tonal

Posted on November 2, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Sir Isaac Newton So, you have your units, and the powers of ten? Distances shorter than 1 µm 1 micrometre (micron)Items with lengths between 1-10 µm (microns)1.55 µm — wavelength of light used in optical fibre6 µm — anthrax spore6-8 … Continue reading →

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Raphael the Painter

Posted on October 25, 2006 by PlatoHagel

By ‘dilating’ and ‘expanding’ the scope of our attention we not only discover that ‘form is emptiness’ (the donut has a hole), but also that ’emptiness is form’ (objects precipitate out of the larger ‘space’) – to use Buddhist terminology. … Continue reading →

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CNO and the Law of Octaves

Posted on September 20, 2006 by PlatoHagel

“String theory—the hot topic in physics for the past 20 years—is a dead-end, says Smolin, one of the founders of Canada’s Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics and himself a lapsed string theorist. In fact, he (and others) argue convincingly, string … Continue reading →

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Quantum Hall Effect

Posted on September 7, 2006 by PlatoHagel

This article below was set in motion by Stefan’s article,”Pencils, Black Holes, and the Klein Paradox”, at Backreaction. B will have to offer her perspective on the blackhole analogy. I offer mine.:) The fractional quantum Hall effect continues to be … Continue reading →

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Gold and Fool’s Gold

Posted on July 20, 2006 by PlatoHagel

Gold Perhaps the highest density known is reached in neutron star matter (see neutronium). The singularity at the centre of a black hole, according to general relativity, does not have any volume, so its density is undefined. The most dense … Continue reading →

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