Physics pops up everywhere, even in pop culture. My sister’s recent visit to California brought with it some new music. I’ve spent a good deal of time listening to “Muse”, with particular interest in the album “Black Holes and Revelations”. The song “Starlight” has the refrain,\n<\/p>\n
Our hopes and expectations<\/p>\n
Black holes and revelations<\/p>\n
Our hopes and expectations<\/p>\n
Black holes and revelations<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nThe song following this on the album, “Supermassive Black Hole”, is a strange dance-like tune that repeats the chorus,\n<\/p>\n
(You set my soul alight)<\/p>\n
Glaciers melting in the dead of night<\/p>\n
And the superstars sucked into the supermassive<\/p>\n
Supermassive black hole <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nThe recurring theme of the black hole in these songs is enchanting. The image of invisible death, ice monoliths vanishing in the dark or majestic stars ingested by an insatiable dead star, is a stark one when the comparison is a love ignited under false pretenses.\n<\/p>\n
\nI’ve always loved this part from Coldplay’s “The Scientist”:\n<\/p>\n
\nI was just guessing at numbers and figures<\/p>\n
Pulling the puzzles apart.<\/p>\n
Questions of science, science and progress<\/p>\n
Don’t speak as loud as my heart.<\/p>\n
Tell me you love me, and come back and haunt me,<\/p>\n
Oh, when I rush to the start<\/p>\n
Running in circles, chasing tails<\/p>\n
coming back as we are.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
\nThat little gem helped me survive my thesis. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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