Unification by Information
Description of Music & Physics;
|| Music has a remarkable ability to affect and manipulate how we feel. Simply listening to songs we like stimulates the brain’s reward system, creating feelings of pleasure and comfort. But music goes beyond our emotions to our minds, shaping how we think. Scientific evidence suggests that even a little music training when we’re young can shape how brains develop, improving the ability to differentiate sounds and speech.
With education funding constantly on the rocks and tough economic times tightening many parent's budgets, students often end up with only a few years of music education. Studies to date have focused on neurological benefits of sustained music training, and found many upsides. For example, researchers have found that musicians are better able to process foreign languages because of their ability to hear differences in pitch, and have incredible abilities to detect speech in noise.
Music training had a profound impact on the way the study subject's brains responded to sounds. The people who had studied music even if only for a few years, had more robust neural processing of the different test sounds. Most importantly, though, the adults with music training were more effective at pulling out the fundamental frequency, or lowest frequency sound, of the test noises. The ability to differentiate fundamental frequencies is critical for perceiving speech, and is an integral part of how we recognize and process sounds in complex and noisy environments. Thus childhood music instruction has strong linguistic benefits and improves performance on everyday listening tasks. Music even seems to improve social development, as people believe music helps them to become better team players and have higher self-esteem.
The relationship between mathematics and music (vibrations of sound waves) is well known and in hindsight it is obvious that mathematics, math physics, music (sound of waves) and musical instruments exist because matter is a wave structure of Space. This is why all matter vibrates and has a resonant frequency.
Music, either performing it or listening to it has the power to enhance some kinds of higher brain function, spatial reasoning tasks, which are generally processed by the brain's right hemisphere, involve the orientation of shapes in space. Such tasks are relevant to a wide range of endeavors, from higher mathematics and geometry to architecture, engineering, drawing and playing chess.
One particular study showed that when groups of first graders were given music instruction that emphasized sequential skill development and musical games involving rhythm and pitch, after six months, the students scored significantly better in math than students in groups that received traditional music instruction.
The effect of music on math sometimes termed the Mozart effect. The Mozart effect gain its name after the discovery that listening to Mozart's compositions, which is very sequential, produces a short-termed enhancement of spatial-temporal reasoning. Some key reasoning features used in spatial temporal reasoning are
1. The transformation and relating of mental images in space and time
2. Symmetries of the inherent cortical firing patterns used to compare physical and mental images and
3. Natural temporal sequences of those inherent cortical patterns.
The spatial-temporal reasoning is crucial in math. The areas of math that require ST reasoning are geometry and certain aspects of calculus, which require transformations of images in space and time. In higher mathematics, the ability to write mathematical proofs is also associated with ST reasoning because proof writing is a task that requires intuitive sense of natural sequences and the ability to think ahead several steps.
Ask students how much they listen to music today. It’s certainly more than they spend reading or writing. And they listen to music while they are on Facebook, Google+, twitter & etc. That’s a powerful combination.
Albert Einstein dreamed of finding what he called a Unified Theory. By that he meant a single idea, a single principle, maybe even a single equation that might describe everything in the universe. He worked long and hard many decades to try to find the theory and he never did. Since his passing many physicists haven take up where he left off and many of us believe then an approach called String Theory may be the Unified Theory that he was looking for. And the basic idea of the unified description of all matter is pretty straightforward. If you take any piece of material, say a piece of wood, cut it in half, cut it in half again, keep on cutting it to ever smaller pieces, the basic question is what’s the smallest piece that you get to?
Now we all know if you cut fine enough you get molecules, if you cut them up, you get atoms, if you cut them up even further you get other particles, electrons going around the nucleus with neutrons and protons, even though the neutrons and protons are smaller entities called quarks. The conventional idea stopped there. String Theory comes along and says There may be one more layer of structure: inside an electron, inside a quark, inside any particle you have heard of, according to these ideas, is a little tiny filament. Looks like a tiny little string, that’s why it’s called String Theory, and the little strings can vibrate in different patterns.
You can call it a middle C if you want, by the musical analogy, a quark could be a string vibrating at a different pattern like an A. So the difference between one particle and another is simply the note that its string is playing. And this is the unified description that this theory puts forward: everything can be reduced to the notes these fundamental strings are playing. Now that’s metaphorical. There’s math behind this, that allows us to see all of the key elements of physics can find a home in this description, but in a nutshell that’s what this theory says.
Art and science have intimate connections, although these are often underappreciated. Western music provides compelling examples. The sensation of harmony and related melodic development are rooted in physical principles that can be understood with simple mathematics. The focus of this review is not the better known acoustics of instruments, but the structure of music itself. The physical basis of the evolution of Western music in the last half millennium is discussed, culminating with the development of the 'blues'.
Several conclusions are made: That music is axiomatic like mathematics and that to appreciate music fully listeners must learn the axioms; That this learning does not require specific conscious study but relies on a linkage between the creative and quantitative brain and that a key element of the musical 'blues' comes from recreating missing notes on the modern equal temperament scale. The latter is an example of art built on artifacts. Finally, brief reference is made to the value of music as a tool for teaching physics, mathematics and engineering to non-scientists.
Divorced from organized sound, music as a function of the brain can be seen as the ability to monitor interrelated and simultaneously changing systems. If there is no change, there is no perception of music. If the change is perceived as random, there is no sense of music. Only when we sense changes that are systematic do we sense music. Still, I’m not talking about music as that stuff we listen to I’m just talking about the perception of changing systems. For example, when we drive, we experience all the cars around us as simultaneously changing systems.
Seen in this way, music as a function of the brain is a necessary survival tool for the kind of animal we once were able to perceive multiple threats and opportunities. Like many of our essential skills, it also found form in a purer expression, organized sound.
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Music is Physical.
It’s Sound and it has wave function so depend on functions and its parameters like energy, momentum, bits & etc it effects on human and generally on environment.
And it is algorithm of bits that called note in music.
The wave function of music sounds carry bits of information so actually it s bit that effect on human body. And that’s because of relevance between Structure and information. Information change structure < > new structure make new bits. So high quality music with high harmonic structure can be beneficial to grow up and help to think & etc But if music be just some regular sound without any difference can be wrecker. (Like some wrecker data file, called computer virus or malware …)
If there s no change so there s no new bit and no new structure >> improvement and evolution become meaningless.
It is vibration of string like new note, or better to say new data.
That u can suppose easily strings as string of data (bits) that change their shape and make new structure and then new bits (In Chaotic Dynamic System); New Particles, Waves, Forces…
So the GUT (Grand Unified Theory) is Information theory.
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