Song 14 of 26 - I Remember Flying

The fourteenth of the 26 songs is called "I Remember Flying". 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 is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffS0X0arG7M


A direct link to the above video is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Soe2swgtsE


A direct link to the above video is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuCZFvjgNYw


I REMEMBER FLYING
words and music (c) by Rob Bryanton (SOCAN)
I remember flying
Flying so high
I’d push off from the ground
And pull into the sky
I would leave the surly bonds
Of gravity behind
I remember flying
From some other time

I remember floating
Ascending to the clouds
Achieving elevation
Then descending to the ground
I remember thinking
It was natural as can be
To be up there floating

I remember moving
In languid slow motion
Like some giant creature
Deep in the ocean
Flying, diving, swooping, soaring, climbing, looping, laughing, haha, yeah

I remember flying
From so long before
And I think that there will come a day
I’ll be flying once more
I remember flying
From more than my dreams
I know that I'm flying
Right now, right here,
always and forever.

Time for another quick review.

In song 13, "Blind Faith", we talked about how there must be some thing that just is. In Imagining the Tenth Dimension, that would be the unobserved whole of quantum indeterminacy, which is equivalent to the enfolded zero of timelessness which Gevin Giorbran describes so well in his book "Everything Forever".

In "The Anthropic Viewpoint", we talked about the physics concept of the multiverse, and how it tells us there are many other universes other than our own that would each be tiny slices of that unobserved quantum fabric, different manifestations resulting from the push and pull between grouping and symmetry that occasionally result in universes as organized as our own.

In The Unseen Eye, we talked about the role of the quantum observer, and how each of us are really our own quantum observer operating within our own observer-region, collapsing/observing one reality chosen from the many realities available to each of us at any particular moment via probabilistic branches at both the quantum and macro level. In songs like Burn the Candle Brightly, Connections, and Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep we explored ways that part of that quantum observer could be the underlying driving force behind life itself, as the thing that connects us to each other, and as the set of patterns in the information that is reality, which can exist outside of linear time.

This song continues that line of reasoning. How common are dreams of flying? According to the popular Flying Dreams FAQ by Linda Lane Magallón, more than a third of the populace recall having had dreams of flying. Such dreams have been reported in ancient civilizations around the world, so they are part of the human condition and not just a product of modern times. This song springs from a simple question: why are flying dreams so common? It proposes the answer: because if each of us part of a system of beliefs and memes that exist outside of our limited 4D spacetime, then we might be able to at least subliminally remember what it was like/will be like to be part of that system when that "tiny spark within us" moves outside of our body. Is this about the eternal soul? If you like to describe it that way, sure. Is this about the nature of memes as organized patterns within the information that is our reality? That's another way of thinking about this.

Dreams of flying can and do happen. They have not been invented to explain this way of visualizing reality, but this way of visualizing reality offers of a way of explaining why those dreams are so common. Have you ever had an out-of-body experience? Do you know about lucid dreaming? Are you able to use meditation (or other altered states of the mind) to visualize and connect to other modes of being, other realms, other dimensions, other probabilistic branches? These ideas are all part of the same discussion. Hopefully, if you have been following the logic of these songs, you will see that we are exploring a way to explain these manifestations that acknowledges that the scientific and the metaphysical viewpoints are both pointing at the same thing.

Here are some blog entries that discuss ideas surrounding these songs:
FAQ 12 - Is this about consciousness and the quantum observer?
I Remember Flying
Death?
The Bicameral Mind
Spirituality, Connections, and the Tenth Dimension
Time as a Spatial Dimension
Quantum Theory and the Multiverse
Waveforms in the Ten Dimensions

You might also enjoy Ben Q's blog on Lucid Dreaming. Here's a link to an interview he did with me about Imagining the Tenth Dimension:
Rob Bryanton Visits Dreaming Life

Next song: 15 of 26 - What Was Done Today

Song 13 of 26 - Blind Faith

So, we're half way through, how are you doing so far? The thirteenth of the 26 songs is called "Blind Faith". Scroll down below the following video 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 above video is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vppy4BOdSJ0

BLIND FAITH
words and music (c) by Rob Bryanton (SOCAN)
Isn’t it incredible?
This beautiful, crazy world that we’re livin in
Seems so impossible
That only dumb chance
And blind happenstance
In a clumsy cosmic dance
Collided and created this all

To be an evolutionist
You gotta have faith in a force that’s so mystical
Pulling strings behind the scenes
You believe it directs
Creatures one to the next
And it’s never perplexed
When the form that’s between couldn’t stand a chance

Same boat, different oar
Same sea, nothing more
If this is a creation, then there must be a Creator
Blind faith can say the question is resolved
But if there’s a Creator, how was He created
Blind faith can say that God just evolved
And round and round the whole thing revolves

Where’s it all comin from
You can follow the cause and effect through eternity
Evolved or created?
You must still reach a spot
When you connect all the dots
That the first thing you’ve got
At the start is just something that “is”

Same boat…

Isn’t it incredible?
This beautiful, crazy world that we’re livin in
Seems so impossible
That only dumb chance
And blind happenstance
In a clumsy cosmic dance
Collided and created this all

Same boat, different oar
Same sea, nothing more
If this is a creation, then there must be a Creator
Blind faith can say the question is resolved
But if there’s a Creator, how was He created
Blind faith can say that God just evolved
And round and round the whole thing revolves

Here's a link to a New York Times article written by cosmologist Paul Davies about a similar idea to this song:
www.nytimes.com/2007/11/24/opinion/24davies.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

The article is called "Taking Science on Faith". It caused quite a furor when it was published in November 2007, and the following link includes a rebuttal and clarifications from Paul Davies in response to those criticisms:
www.edge.org/discourse/science_faith.html

Quite frankly, I knew I was going out on a limb when I wrote this song, since it was an "equal-opportunity-offender", and it looks like Dr. Davies knows what I'm talking about here.

It comes down to this: has the universe always existed? No. Cosmologists tell us it's 13.7 billion years old, religion tells us God created it. What was before the universe? Well, some process created the universe. God? Let's say we agree it was God. Who or what created God? Well, God has always existed, so nothing created God. Hmmm. Well then, let's say we don't call it God, let's just say it was some process that created the universe. Then what created that process? That process always existed, so nothing created that process.

In other words, no matter what the preferred storyline, be it faith-based or science-based, you have to end up starting out with something that just IS ("I'll have to stop you there, your majesty... from there on it's turtles all the way down"). I wrote this song to be a bit tongue-in-cheek, but so far I haven't heard any chuckles from the crowd... maybe it still hasn't found the audience it's looking for, the people who will see why you just have to laugh by the time you're facing this, one of the biggest mysteries of all. No matter how deep you go, you will still be left with one question: what is outside the system? And whatever that underlying structure turns out to be, where did IT come from?

Other blog entries that discuss some of the ideas in this song:

How to Make a Universe
Google, Memes and Randomness
FAQ 9 - Does God and Spirituality Fit Into This?
The Universe as a Song
Tens, Google, and the Expanding Universe
Constructive Interference
Living in the Fifth Dimension
Everything Fits Together in the Zero at the End

Next song: 14 of 26 - I Remember Flying

Song 12 of 26 - The End of the World

The twelfth of the 26 songs is called "The End of the World". 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 is at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2Y9m34iJVY


THE END OF THE WORLD
words and music (c) by Rob Bryanton (SOCAN)
The end of the world
Oft predicted, never realized
The end of the world
Never here, it’s such a surprise
How could millions be so wrong?
The end of the world
The end of the world
Has already been, it’s come and gone

Looking back through history
We oft encounter prophecies
Of end times so very very near
Next year, five years, ten from now
A state of flux, some way somehow
The process of postponement never clear

The end of the world…

With space and time a continuum
Of everything that is to come
And might have been, in one infinite ball
Multiple timelines, now I see
Apocalyptic destinies
Prophets proven prophets after all

The saucers?
Already landed
Our star bodies?
Already attained
Y2K? The global pandemic?
Huge disasters
The big freakin’ asteroid?
Destroyed the world

The end of the world
Oft predicted, never realized
The end of the world
Never here, it’s such a surprise
How could millions be so wrong?
The end of the world
The end of the world
Has already been, it’s come and gone
The end of the world has come and gone

This song, which is more of a tongue-in-cheek show tune, could be thought of as a companion piece to the song we just looked at, "The Anthropic Viewpoint". Here are song blog entries that talk about the ideas within this song:
FAQ 13 - Is this about The End of the World, the Mayan Calendar, Kurzweil's Singularity?
The End of the World, Death, and the Tenth Dimension
How to Make a Universe
Addictive Personality
The End of the World
The End of the World 2
Spirituality, Connections and the Tenth Dimension

One thing that should be clear from all this is that we're not necessarily talking about an apocalypse or an environmental catastrophe (or whatever) here: any of the other big shifts people are currently talking about qualify just as much as, let's say, World War III would, for creating an end to the world as we know it now. This is why I'm happy to lump the Mayan Calendar's accelerated world consciousness, or Kurzweil's Singularity, or everyone attaining their star bodies (and so on) under the general heading of "That End of the World". Again: no matter what prediction you care to look at, eventually it will either come true, or we will still all be here asking the people who made the predictions "how come nothing happened?". With songs like Everything Fits Together, The Unseen Eye, and The Anthropic Viewpoint, we have now arrived at a place where we can see that all of those other timelines may continue to exist as potential within the multiverse: they're just not part of the spacetime tree we're currently on.

Or, even more amazingly, some day we may well find ourselves on one of those timelines where one of these transcendent or frightening predictions do actually come true. This song shows us that a long history of failed predictions that the "end-times are nigh" should not leave us sitting smugly, saying to ourselves that it will never happen: after all, in the multiverse of all possible parallel universes for our universe, those predictions have already come true - somewhere, somewhen. Really, we have no way to prove one way or the other (until we get there!) which predictions will end up being true, and which ones will end up being hot air and much ado about nothing.

Next song: 13 of 26 - Blind Faith

Song 11 of 26 - The Anthropic Viewpoint

The eleventh of the 26 songs is called "The Anthropic Viewpoint". 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 is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du86lNCvOdA


A direct link to the above video is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kfe_3bEH-jE


A direct link to the above karaoke version is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB3MzLoB5uw

THE ANTHROPIC VIEWPOINT
music and lyrics (c) by Rob Bryanton (SOCAN)

(This song combines the concept of the “Anthropic Principle” as advanced by Stephen Hawking in his “The Universe in a Nutshell” with Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems, one of the central points of Douglas Hofstadter’s amazing “Gödel, Escher, Bach”, and throws in some strange ideas of my own. And it’s got a good beat and you can dance to it.)

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain
The only thing that I know for certain
In everything that you say and do
The only thing you know for sure is you
Believe in that and you will be okay
You could live to fight another day, some day

Pay no mind to those tiny little voices
Every day you gotta make some choices
Make ‘em right and you can carry on
Make ‘em wrong and you will soon be gone
And if it seems just a little unfair
Get used to it, cause the stars don’t care, don’t care

In the anthropic viewpoint
The reason we’re here is because we’re here
And if it were impossible
Then we wouldn’t be

If there’s other worlds then we’ve just missed ‘em
No way to know what’s outside our system
We’re like goldfish livin in a bowl
What’s beyond it we can never know
All we can do is theorize
Cause we can never… get outside, outside

In the anthropic viewpoint…

So here we are in the Hydrogen Conspiracy
That’s the way that it certainly appears to be
What’s the reason, where’s the rhyme
How’d we end up on this line
All those other possibilities
They’re just as real, but they don’t have me
It’s no big deal, not worth a fuss
They’re just as real, but they don’t have us, have us

In the anthropic viewpoint
The reason we’re here is because we’re here
And if it were impossible
Then we wouldn’t be


As I say in a previous blog entry about this song, the poor ol' Anthropic Principle has certainly had a rough ride, some people just plain refuse to take this idea seriously. In the wikipedia article about the anthropic principle, you will see there are many different flavors of this idea. Let me try to describe the particular version that appeals to me in the context of what we're imagining here: if there is a multiverse of universes, with each universe springing from its own unique set of initial conditions, most of these universes would be uninhabitable by life as we know it. So how did we get so lucky as to be in a universe fine-tuned to our needs? The answer is that we couldn't exist in those other universes, so that's why "we" (that is to say, "life as we know it") aren't in them. The upshot of that idea, though, is that some of those other universes with completely different basic forces and structures could have within them organized bits of matter and energy that are completely and utterly alien to what we think of as life, and they could be marvelling at how miraculous it is that the universe they live in has been so finely tuned to their own unique needs!

By now it should be clear that even though we are imagining ten dimensions, a concept from string theory (and the jury, of course, is still out on string theory or the need for higher dimensions at this time), most of what we are really talking about with this project is the fascinating world of quantum mechanics. A recurring theme here is that there are surprising leaps that we can make when we recognize that our physical reality of probabilistic outcomes from chance and choice is completely analogous to the quantum world and Everett's many-worlds interpretation. In a blog entry called Infinity and the Boltzmann Brains, we saw one of the ways to take this idea to an extreme. Could every possible universe, no matter how fragmentary or unstable, still have a quantum observer within it? For me, this relates back to the conundrum of what happened in our own universe before life began - how was any version of the wavefunction observed/collapsed when there were no quantum observers? In my blog entry "Boredom and Consciousness Part One", I talk about respected physicist John Wheeler, whose famous diagram of an eyeball looking back at its own tail representing the big bang would be one of the startling ways of resolving this question - could a certain amount of information about our universe have been in an indeterminate state for billions of years, and it wasn't until life began observing/collapsing the wavefunction that the initial conditions for our universe were fine-tuned? Such a wild idea would, I suspect, have been immediately rejected as science fiction if it had not come from an accepted member of the mainstream physics community.

I'm a big fan of the anthropic viewpoint, because it helps us to put things into that biggest-picture-of-all perspective that I'm such a fan of. Because our own universe is already so unimaginably huge, it can be very easy for us to think that's all there is, and could possibly be. With this way of visualizing reality, by the time we've imagined three dimensions of space, three dimensions of time/probability, and three dimensions of organizing patterns that may or may not end up being expressed as probabilistic time or space, and wrapped all of that up into the enfolded, unobserved whole which I describe as the tenth dimension, our own universe is just an infinitesimally tiny subset of all that. Still. With all the different possible expressions of matter and energy which exist as potential within the quantum fabric underlying reality, isn't it an amazing and humbling thing that we get to be a part of all that? That's why the chorus of this song is so gosh-darned happy.

I agree that when you glibly sum up the anthropic principle as "the reason we're here is because we're here", it's easy to dismiss the concept as faulty, circuitous logic. Nonetheless, this song sticks by its guns: all of those other universes exist as potential within the multiverse, and the reason we're in the one we're in is because we couldn't possibly exist in the other universes that would not allow us to. This idea even extends to the parallel universe created by all of the other timelines for own universe which are not accessible to us from our current "now": if it were impossible for us to be in the universe where it was 2008 and the twin towers in New York were still standing, then we wouldn't be. And sure enough, we aren't in that version of our universe! We'll explore that idea more when we get to song 15, "What Was Done Today".


Some of the other blog entries that talk about the ideas from this song:

You Can't Get There From Here
Evidence of Parallel Universes
The Multiverse and Dark Matter
Everything
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. Included at amiestreet are 6 channel "stems" of this song and some of the others for remixing and mashups (and you can click here to play with a six-channel mixer that lets you audition and play with those stems). There is also an instrumental track of this song (and others) available from amiestreet for karaoke purposes. Finally, you can also download this song and other items from the tenthdimension digital store, and the items at that store are released under a Creative Commons license.

Next song: 12 of 26 - The End of the World

Song 10 of 26 - Addictive Personality

The tenth of the 26 songs is called "Addictive Personality". Scroll down below the following video 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 this video of me sitting at the piano singing this song can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFvsd6IUoH4

This song is, in a way, a companion to song 9, "Senseless Violence" because it is also about the fifth dimensional paths each of us are taking, and the important cusps that can define a life. Thinking back to the image of the flatlander on the mobius stip, we can see how our one-eyed jack could be looping around and around, and yet still feel like he was moving forward. By the time we've imagined a reality that is defined by memes and patterns in the higher dimension, we can start see how this trap of the mobius strip could happen to us in the fourth/fifth dimension as well. Here's what the book says about this idea:

We all have to recognize that there are branches that are impossible to get to because they would require a leap through the sixth dimension, but that still leaves a huge range of fifth dimensional paths which each of us truly can get to from where we are at this moment. We are all travellers in the fifth dimension, each of us drawing a fourth dimensional line with our three dimensional bodies.

Sometimes people get caught in loops of addiction and abuse that trap them into circles, causing them to go back again and again to bad relationships, alcohol, or other drugs, with a feeling that there’s no way out. This is one of the pitfalls that the fifth dimension can set for people, as it offers an easy path to fold back to the same negative repetitions over and over again. There’s not much to say about this except that the fifth dimension offers many paths for escape as well, and the hardest part of the problem is usually identifying what is triggering the negative repetition and finding a way to break the pattern

ADDICTIVE PERSONALITY
music and lyrics (c) by Rob Bryanton (SOCAN)

Now it’s really only natural
It’s always been the same
That when something makes you feel good
You want that something again
But when that something starts to hurt you
And you just can’t let it go
And you wake up feelin poorly
But you wake up wantin more

Addictive personality, Addictive personality
Addictive personality
Addictive
Personality

Is it nature, is it nurture
That got you to this place
Where you’re tradin your tomorrows
For what you’re trapped into today?
Is it the constant inundation
Of the media machine
Is it the way that you were brought up
Or just something in your genes?

Addictive personality, Addictive personality
Addictive personality
Addictive
Personality

Every day is a new day
Every day you’re back to one
And today can be the new day
When you say you’re finally done
Or you can find some more excuses
That today will be the same
Cause it’s easy to continue
When you say you’re not to blame

Addictive personality, Addictive personality
Addictive personality
Addictive
Personality

Here are some other blog entries that talk about ideas from this song:

Addictive Personality
See No Future
Selfish Genes and Selfish Memes
Vibrations and Energy
Probability Space
Your Sixth-Dimensional Self
What Do You Want to Change?
Remembering the Future

Next song: 11 of 26 - The Anthropic Viewpoint

Song 9 of 26 - Senseless Violence

The ninth of the 26 songs is called "Senseless Violence". Scroll down below the following video 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 this video can be found at revver.com/video/384964/senseless-violence/

For most of the the 1980's and into the 90's I was music director/composer for the local professional theatre company here in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, the Globe Theatre. I wrote the music and lyrics for this song originally for a "musical comedy about what drives people to fascism" called Resuscitation of a Dying Mouse back in 1986 (spoken text and original concept for the play was by the Globe's playwright-in-residence, Rex Deverell). Ron Scott created the above video using footage from archive.org, while the version of the song we're hearing here is still the original 1986 recording, which is why it sounds the way it does, with 80's drum machine and samples.

So what does this song have to do with this way of imagining the dimensions? One of the important ideas is "cusps": if the fourth dimensional line of time comes from a probability space in the fifth dimension, then there can be long stretches where we all go about our lives uneventfully, but then an important "branch" happens that moves us to a very different trajectory. Some of those branches are good, some are bad, some are just branches where we were faced with a choice which we made or chose not to make. To quote from the book:

We all have parts of our day where we are completely unaware of the passage of time. In the Julian Jaynes point of view, these would be the parts of our day when the “narrator voice” of our consciousness ceases its constant monologue, and we merge back into the unified point of view of our ancestors, and, indeed, of most other living things. At those moments, we continue to act as quantum observers, but there is nothing remarkable about the process to stick in our memory.
What we do remember are the moments where an important branch occurred in the “straight” line of our fourth dimensional experience. Thinking fifth-dimensionally, our personal timeline (or “world-line”) might be proceeding uneventfully, but then we reach the moment where a major decision, a random event, or the actions of others resulted in a blossoming or a branching extending out from that “straight” line of our life-path. Everyone remembers what they were doing the moment they saw the World Trade Center towers collapse. Everyone remembers the day they won a big prize or the day they saw a loved one die. And even with perfect strangers, we are drawn to the moments we recognize as being important cusps in that person’s life. This is why it is human nature to want to drive slowly by the car accident, trying to catch a glimpse of what happened, or why we all will look at the newspaper picture of the latest lottery winner. No matter whether the event was good or bad, fortunate or unfortunate, we all have a tendency to think “what if that had been me?”

SENSELESS VIOLENCE
words and music (c) by Rob Bryanton (SOCAN)
Senseless violence (Senseless violence!)
Crime in the streets (Crime in the streets!)
Don’t talk to strangers (Don’t talk to strangers!)
Or people you meet (Cause they could be just as dangerous!)
These are dangerous times that we live in
These are dangerous times that we live in
Senseless violence (and you can’t get away)

All the latest atrocities on the six o’clock news
Everybody’s cranin their necks to see the view
And you are too
Somebody killed a cop parked at a roadside restaurant
Somebody went crazy pulled out a gun
Shot up the place, just for fun

Senseless Violence (Senseless violence!)
Crime in the streets (Crime in the streets!)
Don’t talk to strangers (Don’t talk to strangers!)
Or people you meet (Cause they could be just as dangerous!)
These are dangerous times that we live in
These are dangerous times that we live in
Senseless violence (and you can’t get away)

You got your foot on the brake
Cause you can’t take your eyes off the car crash scene
You’re all movin so slow, wonderin who it might have been
It’s a little obscene
When you see the need to feed upon such butchery
Get some popcorn and coke and find a seat
It’s solid entertainment on the silver screen

Senseless Violence (Senseless violence!)
Senseless Violence (Senseless violence!)
Senseless Violence

Here are some other blog entries that touch upon the ideas from this song:

FAQ 7 - Isn't Free Will and Illusion?
You Can't Get There From Here
Infinity and Impulse Control
See No Future
Your Sixth-Dimensional Self
The Dark Side
Death?

Next song: 10 of 26 - Addictive Personality

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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