I came across this video today on the way in which fire reacts to music and thought I should share it here. It’s already got 1.4 million views on Youtube so maybe you’ve seen it before. But it’s the first time I came across it, so perhaps it will be new to some of you as well.

I think this (copy/pasted below) YouTube comment is interesting (what are the chances?) too. It puts this experiment in a bit of historical context. And of course there’s no understanding without context.

“this apparatus published in 1905 help in part to proove out the body of mathmatics that allowed the algorithmic description of waveforms enabling digital music. In spirit you are looking at the first iPod. Other such useless experiments will eventually create your space ship. Energy however is never free because in this household we obey the laws of thermodynamics.”

Reality is pretty amazing. Which really gets to my whole idea of how my religion is the truth, but I’m not sure I have a good way of explaining the concept just yet.