Friday, January 4, 2013

All Hail Heisenberg

It's the day after the apocalypse.  You are the only person alive.  The world is need of a leader and the only piece of the old world left is the 5 season box set of Breaking Bad.



- "All Hail Heisenberg"

The first post of many more to come.

There are two things that I love; music and neuroscience.  I do not major in either of the respective fields of  studies, but I have come to take a liking to both.  In both of the respective fields, the software used by the engineers to compile data uses visual inputs and outputs on a monitor that displays the waves across a temporal slope.

In the music industry the engineers measure the sound waves (input) and displays these waves across the temporal slope (output).  In the neuroscience profession the brain waves (input) are also displayed over a temporal slope (output).  The question that comes to mind when I think  of the two is whether or not  serotonin levels in the brain can be equalized to the same frequency as the brain's response to the music if both were measured as waves.  If both the serotonin levels and the brain waves can be measured and displayed across the same temporal slope, would there be an intersection between the time of the fluctuating differences between the highs and lows in the music and the brain waves reaction to music as serotonin levels in the brain?

If so, this would mean an intersection of time and space at a microscopic level.  It's awesome to think of  the similarities of music and why it means so much to cultures.  Music can affect your mood according to Xiao Hu of the University of Illinois.