The Eternal Orchestra-Light Atoms and Music

[saxenaashish17]

loved this video.. could you please explain the light pushing the electron setting up a resonant pattern a little more. thank you.

[LoveMattersMost]

@saxenaashish17 The atom has an electron and nucleus which are pulling on eachother by electric attraction. Compare to a weight supended by a spring. It needs a push to start oscillating up and down. The push must be neither too long and slow or too short and fast. If it gets the right size push it can swing up and down (resonate) for a long time. It so happens that light waves can push on electrons. And they are the right size to cause the electron to start oscillating around the nucleus.

[EvannRachel]

I love this! Reminds me of Carl Sagan's old videos, some of my favorite stuff ever. Great video sir!

[LoveMattersMost]

@EvannRachel Oh, thank-you so very much! I'm glad it gave you some "food for thought". I make these videos in hopes of tickling people's minds to think or experience something new. : ) Brian. (The truth is, though..I benefit as much as everyone else!)

[Ebiczebulanious]

It always amazed me that the “Pythagorean Theorem” applied to everything in Nature from tuning a guitar string to electronic Impedance. With the New String Theory I would not be surprised if the Theorem would be a part of a “Unified Field Theory”. But what do I know.

[LoveMattersMost]

@Ebiczebulanious Yeah, that is one of the great beauties and mysteries of the Universe-Why is math so useful? And why does math describe nature's behavior? (since math is man-made, it's not garaunteed to always work) But, like you mentioned the Pythag. Thm.; some how it describes nature as diverse as plane geometry to Phasor impedances (haha! not many people know what they are!) Cheers, Brian.

[ASAngelo]

I feel this energy, this motion at all times in music and art. In life.

Very well put Brian!

A.S.Angelo

[LoveMattersMost]

@ASAngelo You confirmed my suspicions..that Artists are more sensitive to the ebb and flow of Nature's Energies! I feel it too. When I'm still and calm, and in a good mood, I feel that all of Nature is in harmonious, rhythmic, motion. I probably feel it most at the Seashore. The crashing waves and the way they crawl up and down across the sand..It totally hypnotizes me! : ) Brian.

[nickharvey7]

This is a very nice video!! I liked this video a lot it was very straight forward!

[stickeah]

Great video. Thanks for making a new one! I was excited when I logged into youtube and saw you made a new one.

Very educational, thanks again!

[LoveMattersMost]

@stickeah I think you got me out of my state of laziness which was lasting for months through the Holidays. Thank-You. Brian.

[stickeah]

@LoveMattersMost Good deal! Glad I could inspire you :)

[EmeraldxFairy]

Hi LoveMattersMost! This is a very beautiful video, and very educational too. I learned a lot from watching this - I did not know that atoms glow when heated, that is very interesting! And I really liked the demonstration you did with your stovetop fire too. The world certainly is an incredible place. :)

[LoveMattersMost]

@EmeraldxFairy It's true, atoms do "shine" in their own way. Although sometimes they need to be quite hot to shine, so normally we don't see it happen. In fact, one of the great moments of science was when someone looked at the stars and the sun with a spectrometer! What an amazing experiment! Since stars are hot, all the atoms are "shining" and each element has it's own "fingerprint." It's light spectrum. Guess what they found out? Our sun is full of Helium and Hydrogen (who knew?) : ) Brian.

[TheFaustianMan]

Welcome back!

I loved how you used the tactile aspect of things, and included music to explain things like atoms. Quite ingenious of you!

Using the "Feeling" quality to explain things, as Einstein said, makes things as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Walter Lewin is great in that respect too!

Absolutely amazing how these little things somehow gain consciousnesss and then self-examine themselves - so to speak.

[LoveMattersMost]

@TheFaustianMan Hi Faust Wonderful comments. As always, your comments are thought-provoking in themselves and leave many doors open..Remember, it was you who told me the MIT site was downloading new vids awhile back. I was thinking of you while making this video because of that connection. Yes, it was a huge challenge to try and talk about a hardcore science subject and use no math. I tried a lot of everyday comparisions and "hand-waving" Glad to hear it was a success! : )

That comment of yours

[LoveMattersMost]

@TheFaustianMan PS: That comment of yours, "Absolutely amazing how these little things somehow gain consciousnesss and then self-examine themselves - so to speak." Is worthy of many books or movies alone.