Mike Corey

This is where I think, again, the value of looking at the anti-Darwinian, anti-empirical school of science that is rooted in something, I think, more useful has value because looking at harmony, just as an idea, it's something which

has given us so much as a concept.

Those who hold the hypothesis that maybe beyond the chaos of something that appears chaotic, actually there's some form of discoverable reason, some purposefulness or whatever.

And like the planets, right?

Why are they located where they are?

Well, if you read Kepler, who did the most to describe and provide his three laws,

he was holding the idea of Plato as outlined in the Timaeus dialogue that he cites extensively in his harmonies of the world that he published in 1619.

And in that book that outlines how he came to his third law, which is one of the few elements of classical physics that still has application within the domain of quantum mechanics.

His third law is still super useful.

Most other things were thrown out of the Newtonian school, but his was still very useful.

He shows you,

So he's citing Plato, he's citing Plato's Timaeus as what gave him the idea of the hypothesis that there is some musical tempering that is tied to some geometric ratios that are rooted in discoverability.

So the sound of the square, the sound of the triangle, the sound of the pentagon, which Plato's outlining in the Timaeus dialogue.

But Plato didn't have the observational data to necessarily take it to the next level, whereas by the time Kepler was alive, he could.

So, well, with those ratios, he's been able to then test out, well, okay, if we look at the minimum maxima of each of the planets that are knowable in his time, so take the closest and the furthest distances when the planet is moving at its slowest and its quickest speeds, you could take those intervals and then ask, are they...

are they random or is there a reason?

And he was able to then demonstrate that there is a musicality that the earth, for example, within its elliptical orbit is moving from a me to a fa, which he makes a little joke.

He's like, maybe that's why there's so much misery and famine in the world.

Because he's living in the 30 years war, right?

The world is slipping into chaos and he's writing this in order to, and he's very clear in his opening.