A musical universe The thought came to me on a rainy day. The bus was making its way down the road towards Borders where I was going on a Thursday afternoon to purchase the latest readings. On the second floor, there was only a couple to the back; I don't have to describe what they are doing here. No sound blared from the speakers above me and the images on the plasma screen went ahead with their silent motions like a movie from the thirties. I watched the droplets of rain snake down the window pane; beating time on it to an imaginary tune in my head, thinking random thoughts brought on by the firing synapses.

As my fingers moved over the window, a melody formed in my head. Long forgotten musical theories came back to me and I thought about perfect fifths, dissonant chords and melodic scales. Then suddenly, I thought about the universe and how one action leads to another, forming a long chain of events all interlinked and dependent on what happens before it. Kinda deterministic if you look at it. Anyway, this sounds remarkably like a melody to my mind; one note following the other, individually not much but when played in sequence and chords, forming operas and symphonies and glorious hymns. What if we live in a musical universe?

What does a Fifth Symphony universe sound like? History would be punctured with events that pierce the eardrums. Or a Canon in D one? Flowy, smooth and peaceful presumably. Imagine one based on jazz; or another based on swing. The possibilities are endless.

What of our universe? Do we live in one that has a discernible melody? Or do we live in the banging of a little boy on a grand piano?  ¶ 1:27:00 am