I’ve always loved the idea of the “music of the spheres.” As completely ridiculous and obviously not true as it may be… but then as I was doing my homework for “Quantum Physics and Beyond” (a fun class, though a topic I can’t claim to know anything about…) I came across this explanation of string theory…

In this theory,

an elementary particle does not resemble

a point; rather it is like a tiny

rubber band that can vibrate in many

modes. The fundamental mode has the

lowest frequency; then there are higher

harmonics, which can be superimposed

on top of one another. There are an infinite

number of such modes, each of

which corresponds to a different elementary

particle.

(by Susskind, See http://staff.science.uva.nl/~jdeboer/gr04/susskind.pdf )

Music of the spheres? Music of the strings!