Song 8 of 26 - Big Bang to Entropy

The eighth of the 26 songs is called "Big Bang to Entropy". Scroll down below the following videos for the lyrics and a brief discussion of how this song ties into the project. A blog post which lists all 26 songs, including 1 video for each song can be found by clicking here.



A direct link to the above video can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-atlgyfQkOc


A direct link to this video can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIeOd-TlzEo


A direct link to the above video of me at my hundred year old player piano singing this song can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygAeyQMwQJI

Here's a quote from the book, in the section that uses this song as a reference:

Think of one of your favourite songs from when you were a teenager. Now think of every time you have heard that song since then, and the connections in time and space that were made every time that song came back. This is an example of a longer groove than most of us are used to thinking about. But the interlocking system of beliefs and instinct that make up an individual can stretch across time much further than the duration of a single life: trying to imagine what it would feel like to be one of those much longer timespan systems is an interesting exercise.
Graham Hancock, in his book “The Mars Mystery”, tells of a system of mirrors that were left behind on the moon by the Apollo astronauts. From 1973 to 1976 researchers used a 107-inch telescope to direct more than 2,000 laser beams at these mirrors. These laser beams allowed extremely precise measurements to be made and revealed a 15-meter oscillation of the lunar surface about its polar axis, with a period of about three years. Astronomer David Levy suggested that the moon is behaving “just like a huge bell after it has been clanged”. Scientists proposed that this must be the result of a relatively recent major impact, and that this ringing will die out after 20,000 years or so. Imagine, now, that you are somehow able to slow down your awareness to the point where you are able to hear the ringing of that bell.

BIG BANG TO ENTROPY
words and music (c) by Rob Bryanton (SOCAN)
I slowed down
Till I heard the moon
I heard the moon ringing
Ringing like a bell

I slowed down
Till I felt the earth
I felt the plates sliding:
Skaters on a pond

And I finally felt the long groove moving underneath
Births and deaths of galaxies pounding out the beat
And I finally heard the whole song at once:
Big Bang to Entropy
Big Bang to Symmetry
Big Bang to Everything

I slowed down
Till I saw the sun
I saw the sun spinning
On a pinwheel’s arm

And I saw the long chain of our DNA
Stretching back to the beginning for so long
And I saw the mighty ocean that surrounds and sustains
Connecting us together in a song

I slowed down
Till I saw the song
Was only one of many
One of many more

And I finally felt the long groove moving underneath
Births and deaths of galaxies pounding out the beat
And I finally heard the whole song at once:
Big Bang to Entropy
Big Bang to Symmetry
Big Bang to Everything

It begins as nothing, silence at the end
Every song’s the same after or before
But the parts in between, there are so very many forms
More than we could ever hope to know


If you're following these songs in order, it should be clear by now that this all about another way of viewing reality which includes the appreciation of how time is an illusion, and the fabric of timelessness is what we are thinking about by the time we have imagined the tenth dimension in this new way of thinking about time and space. Here are some other blog entries that talk about some of the ideas in this song:

Visualizations
The Universe as a Song
E8 and the Semantic Web
How to Make a Universe
Probability Space
Constructive Interference
Quantum Theory and the Multiverse
Time as a Spatial Dimension

Many of the videos for my songs are also available at YouTube, if you search for videos by 10thdim. You can audition and buy a high-quality mp3 of this song (and others by Rob Bryanton) at amiestreet.com.

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