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    Sound waves in a 1-molecule thick liquid

    Imagine a 1-molecule thick layer of liquid, evenly dispersed across a perfectly flat surface. This surface is (for this thought experiment) impenetrable and sound does not pass through it; it is unable to resonate or vibrate. If we apply sound waves or some other frequency/wave generation to...
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    Lingusitics How Do Music, Mathematics, and Descriptive Language Interconnect?

    Here is a breakdown of my theory of music/math/language. Please direct me to any flaws or to where I am misguided. We can describe our world using mathematics. (Assumption) Our world could have turned out differently than it is right now. (Assumption) We can describe those...
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    Lingusitics How Do Music, Mathematics, and Descriptive Language Interconnect?

    Perhaps a better way to phrase my question is, is there such a thing as a "musical function", such that when you have a function (perhaps by playing a series of tones simultaneously), and you enter an argument (the addition of one or more additional tones), you return some result that can be...
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    Lingusitics How Do Music, Mathematics, and Descriptive Language Interconnect?

    This may be more appropriate for the metaphysics forum, but since this is my first post, I'll give this area a shot. What is the relationship between music, mathematics and descriptive language? By descriptive language, I mean any language that describes the world as it really is...
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