03 MAR 2014 by ideonexus

 What if Extraterrestrials Spoke in Music?

Might interstellar communication not be messages but music--perhaps a 600 part invention, each part on an adjacent frequency channel? If there were more conventional representation of frequencies for example, the full frequency range corresponding to the range between 1420 and 1667 megahertz would we have the wit to distinguish this music from noise. Other forms of such many-part interstellar musical inventions might exist which each A civilization provides one part. Might we be able to recog...
Folksonomies: speculation
Folksonomies: speculation
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With frequencies communicating ideas?

26 JAN 2012 by ideonexus

 Everything in Nature is Change

Wherever we seek to find constancy we discover change. Having looked at the old woodlands in Hutcheson Forest, at Isle Royale, and in the wilderness of the boundary waters, in the land of the moose and the wolf, and having uncovered the histories hidden within the trees and within the muds, we find that nature undisturbed is not constant in form, structure, or proportion, but changes at every scale of time and space. The old idea of a static landscape, like a single musical chord sounded fore...
Folksonomies: nature change
Folksonomies: nature change
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"Nature undisturbed by human influence seems more like a symphony whose harmonies arise from variation and change over many scales of time and space..."