Theos-Talk Archives (December 2003 Message tt00198)

In a message dated 12/10/03 12:17:58 AM, bartl@sprynet.com writes:

> And, as a physicist, you should know that there are an infinite number
>of colors in the rainbow; it's a continuity, arbitrarily divided (and,
>if you think it's NOT aribtrary, find the indigo!!!). The musical scale
>is also arbitrarily divided; the Chinese scale, for example, has tones.
>And, if you include all the so-called "half steps", then there are 12 
>notes in the Western scale.

But, there are only seven "natural" tones between the doubling of the 
frequencies that complete the octavo. Of course, there are other naturally repeating 
divisions of the continuity of frequencies in both color and sound. For 
example the thirds and fifths. Even theosophy talks about 10, 12, and 14 
repetitive divisions or intervals. Its all in the fractal diagrams that picture the 
involution of primal energy fields that grow out of zero-points, and also in 
the mathematics of 10 dimensional Superstring theories that speak of 7 
hyperspace dimensions plus 3 physical space dimensions. 

LHM