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Definitely, I don't think this song was composed by one person, I think it was passed down orally and by rote over generations before Romani music was notated and people added flairs and such along the way. Then Sergei Orekhov did his arrangement when recording mediums were available.

Мар Дяндя is a traditional Russian Romani song. Sergei Orekhov arranged it for guitar in the last century (you can find original recordings but the recording quality is poor due to age of records). Here's a modern performance for six-string in the same style Sergei played it: And here's a...

Melodies can resolve too. For example, drone music and Dastgahs both understand the function of the tonic. Mostly laymen, but also the weak version of the Sapir Whorf can influence how even an expert thinks about borrowed terms like "resolve". Are you suggesting that musical preference is...

Yes, again resolving a chord is an objective process defined by a set of rules. Whether somebody likes it or not is the subjective part. Why we percieve "resolution" (thats a bad word for it since its easy to equivocate with e.g. conflict resolution) is an area of neuroscience. For example...

that's an interesting perspective, considering that the majority of music theories developed around the world conform to Pythagoras. While you can create music with music theory, that's generally not what it's for. You create music by feeling (the art), but you analyze what works and why with...

There are two primary hypotheses for the purpose of sleep: 1) cellular maintenance (neuron are busy cells that undergo a lot of physical stress between electroactivity and chemical activity, rest periods help the cells "regenerate" (clear out waste, restock neurotransmitter, reinforce structural...

It depends on what you mean. At the molecular level, it's not any different than physics. It's just diffusion with ions (which also have electrical properties). Diffusion in the real world co-exists with turbulence and eddie currents (super diffusion) and crowding and tight geometry...

Hmm, I'm not sure of the context here. Was MH370's engine not leased? *I see. It was not. So I guess, what about non-leased engines then?

Maybe somebody who has a lot of satellites in the sky pre-armed with surface-facing telescopes could start some kind monitoring and tracking system. *edit: Not sure if telescopes for visual would even be necessary until there's a problem, maybe some other kind of sensing or signal analysis...

I think that sort of demonstrates my point, that we smoosh QM with relativity and classical physics (since it's incomplete on its own) - and further, we still don't get an arrow of time. I know we can always patch different domains together in creative ways - quantum chaos, pchem, decoherence...

I don't want to hurt QM's feelings, but I think it's incomplete - particularly as any kind of description of spacetime.

I wonder if you can really define arrow of time without thermodynamics or expansion of universe. is 2nd law really just statistical? Prigogine didn't think so and that led to a theory of dissipative structures. dispersion and irreversibility are classical and deterministic The observer in wave...

I avoid plastic as much as possible and try to stick to whole foods, but it's inevitable. Microwaving plastic containers also seems sketchy to me (not anything magical about microwaves - mostly just that heated plastic off gasses at higher volumes and its in contact with the food). I also hate...

I think we are interpreting things differently. To be clear, I'm only demonstrating why the book on the fundamental laws of physics is not largely closed. The game is changing, but it's more like a new chapter than a conclusion.

I'd definitely challenge this as a variant of human hubris. We've uncovered about 100 questions for every question we've answered - we've opened a pandora's box in the last century. The modern physics revolution may lure us into a false sense of completion, but there's still lots of interesting...