Hi,

If you go back to the works of Plato and/or Aristotle, you’ll find that they said things like “the Universe is made of numbers” and they spoke of the Music of the Spheres.

Numbers and music are related, of course. But neither one or the other is the complete universe, they are just different modes, different dimensions, different ways of looking at the universe.

The second website you listed seems to just say that musical scales relate to mathematical sequences. That’s kinda obvious. I think both websites obfusticated things unneccesarily, that could be why your acquaintance told you to go surf the websites – he maybe didn’t completely understand what was going on himself. I think it could be because both websites are trying to sell products that you would deem unneccesary if you understood the concepts fully.

I think they both drew on the sayings of a wide range of famous people, in order to sell a wide range of products.

Anyway, yerrr, it’s true, music is one way of analysing the universe, and so is mathematics.

For example, computer aided design is based on mathematics right? And thus you can model chemical molecules, big big molecules composed of thousands of atoms, and you can rotate them on a computer screen and thus work out the shape of a drug that would block or enhance that molecules activity. And running away with the thought strand of chemistry, the Periodic Table of chemical elements – before it was formulated by Mendeleyev, there was a British chemist and musician called Sir John Newlands who proposed that the elements organised themselves into series, like musical octaves. This was called Newlands’ Theory of Octaves. And he was basically right. So we go from mathematics to music.

Matter is based on scalar quantity. Energy is based on quality.
Quantity = numbers. Quality = aesthetics = music.
The Universe is a duality of matter and energy. E = mc 2 … energy = matter, just 2 different ways of looking at the same thing, i.e. this Universe.

Nae bother with “Therapy harps” or wall calendars 😉