Recent discoveries in physics reveal that the world is not made up of positively and negatively charged matter or anti-matter, no matter what. On the contrary, it is strings, very much like those on a violin, that keep the universe from imploding and birds from dropping out of the sky - at least for the next couple of billion years. In order to prove this, mathematicians are now working with ten dimensions, making all this research fairly esoteric. I mean, most of the time I am thinking in just one dimension and even that is tough. I always thought that this was a metaphor for keeping everything in focus. Now, all of a sudden, these fellows are out to either prove or disprove that e equals mc squared.
We at Tokyo Journal are not here to either approve or disapprove of such scientific shenanigans. We are also reluctant to comment on the efforts of some astronomers to measure the weight of the universe - presumably to check whether it all adds up, or whether the universe's combined mass (or matter, for that matter) is large enough to either expand forever or to eventually implode like a sick TV tube. Personally, I favor the implosion theory, because I would certainly enjoy another Big Bang. In fact, according to my own calculations that would be the fifteenth Big Bang, making our universe relatively young, compared to those yet to be discovered.
What seems odd about all this astro and whatnot physics is that it took these people such a long time to discover what musicians have known for millennia. Namely, that it's vibrations, audible or otherwise, that hold us all together. Even the very first edition of the Bible had the goods on it: "In the beginning was the Word . . ." It's sound that started it all. And it's the sound that holds it all together. Not to mention the word . . .
Now, let's enjoy some music.
stephan hauser