Listening to Jupiter
Call it what you like The music, the language of the cosmos is ours The expanding universe, the supernova; red-shifting light from distant stars Does it matter if dark energy exists, filling the space between galactic islands; engimatic energy imagined but forever unseen Far-off galaxies bending space and time across the vast dimensions, the observable universe. Can we glimpse our past? Tweak gravity. Particles are good vibrations: music. An ensemble of invisible strings. Science may confuse it yet planets sing, and underlying unities of nature hear. I have listened to Jupiter; am sure of the music of the spheres. ©June Palmer April 2015 Music of the spheres is an ancient philosophical concept that regards proportions in the movements of celestial bodies - the Sun, Moon, and planets - as a form of "music" not usually thought to be literally audible, but a harmonic, mathematical or religious concept. The idea continued to appeal to thinkers about music until the end of the Renaissance, influencing scholars of many kinds, including humanists.
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