Reading about the music of the spheres—the Pythagorean belief that the distance between planets creates music that we cannot hear but that can be heard by the soul. And came across the disovery of a star system—TOI-178, about 200 light-years away—composed of six planets, five of which create patterns that repeat, aligning every few orbits, a phenomenon called resonance.
A model of the music (linked below) that the TOI-178 planets create was made by assigning each planet a note on the pentatonic scale—the sound is eerie and fascinating—hinting that the ancients were indeed on to something?…
And a poem from our own solar system:
O bright sun, how happy you are to gaze,
Day after day, upon your lover's face:
And you, his sister, in Endymion's embrace,
So fully sated with love's honeyed taste.
Mars looks upon Venus: Mercury the bold
Ventures from Sky to Sky, & every place
Jupiter revisits still bears the trace
Of his reckless youthful days of old.
Such is the force of Heaven's harmony
That bonds the gods in their variety:
But if what they loved lay far in space & time,
All their harmony & regularity
Would drift into error & vagary:
All their travails would be as vain as mine.
--Louise Labé (c. 1516-1566)
Amazing I listened with my eyes closed and the body responded
So freakin' cool.