The Cosmic Symphony – Overtones of String Theory (PDF)

BOOK IV IN THE "HOW THINGS WORK" SERIES (PDF Download)

Like many Western stories, the story of String Theory begins in ancient Greece; with a Greek philosopher named Pythagoras. Renowned for his deep mathematical insight, Pythagoras revolutionized Western thought, particularly in the areas of mathematics and geometry. Essentially a “priest” of the sacred language of God, mathematics, Pythagoras understood the physical world as the manifestation of a hidden world of complete rational abstraction. All of Reality was founded on, and a result of, mathematical reason.

Pythagoras utilized vibrating strings to develop musical theories that would uncover specific mathematical ratios in sound leading to a musical scale consisting of patterns expressed as whole steps and half steps with a total of 12 tones, or notes. Now known as the “chromatic scale” it was the birth of Western music, and eventually String Theory.

Since mathematics represented the language of God, or the Divine, music was also sacred. Music, like the universe itself, was not haphazard or chaotic like dissonant hammers banging on anvils. It was a mathematical puzzle of perfection waiting to be precisely manifested into physical reality through pure mathematical abstraction.

Pythagoras called this Cosmic Symphony of Abstract Perfection “The Music of the Spheres.” This marked the beginning of a very long journey into the nature of Reality as reflecting an experience based purely on mathematical vibrations.

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