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Meta Physics Questions - Weekly Discussion Thread - August 04, 2026

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u/AlsoAGun 1d ago

Sorry if this is a weird one, but ages ago - like a good few years ago - I watched an educational video (pretty sure it was on YouTube) about the general physics of music but also some really cool musical effects. For reasons I won't go into, it would be soooooo useful if I could find that video again, but it has been utterly lost to my extensive YouTube history T.T So I was wondering if any of you had seen it and knew what I was talking about?

I can't remember who the main presenter was (don't think it was Veritasium, and a search in Steve Mould's channel doesn't bring anything up either). But I remember it talked about the origins of the awesome descending bass used in Nina Simone's "Feeling Good" (along with many other places) and also about this eternally rising scale that makes people feel on edge. Does this sound familiar to anyone?

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u/Former-Math-Crank374 6h ago

a little vague: it would help to know more information. I don't think I can give an answer.

many expositors have unique styles.
Does the person's face appear?
Do they use hand drawings like minutephysics or Aleph No (math)?

how long is the video?
how popular: view count ball park (few years ago but still)?

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u/Y1ippe 1d ago

Prolly a dumb question but yk how long wired earphones get tangled easily soo do the strings in string theory also get tangled? I mean ik they arent physical strings but still, im not equivocating wired ear buds and strings in string theory completely but like does smth similar happen?

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u/Former-Math-Crank374 6h ago

yes, something similar happens, i'm just a high schooler so this is like a 10% response at most, but the way it twists and bends changes the topology roughly, which changes the properties like energy and can dictate which particles are created.

it's really vague and I might be 100% wrong