Wave Meets Note
MIT physicists just showed the double-slit experiment still produces interference even when reduced to its purest quantum form—one atom through one slit at a time. The insight echoes what Pythagoras proposed 2,500 years ago: that musical harmony reflects the order of the universe. He discovered that simple ratios—2:1, 3:2—produce consonant sounds and believed the planets themselves moved in such ratios, creating a “music of the spheres.” The simulator below lets us see what he only imagined: align two frequencies and symmetry emerges; shift them slightly and interference disrupts the field. Dissonance is just physics—whether in atoms, strings, or stars.