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the images on the new album/tour dates pages is taken from here:

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1343753/The-sound-particle-pings-Scientists-turn-Large-Hadron-Collider-data-music.html?ITO=1490

 

 

generated by LHC data

 

i liked the sounds they have produced. creepy. I recall the idea Matt had to issue an album with three parts, one of which would be some ultrasounds noone can really hear. brainwashing

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i liked the sounds they have produced. creepy. I recall the idea Matt had to issue an album with three parts, one of which would be some ultrasounds noone can really hear. brainwashing

 

Do you have a link to that quote at all? I remember reading it before but I can't for the life of me, remember where I read it.

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the images on the new album/tour dates pages is taken from here:

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1343753/The-sound-particle-pings-Scientists-turn-Large-Hadron-Collider-data-music.html?ITO=1490

 

 

generated by LHC data

 

i liked the sounds they have produced. creepy. I recall the idea Matt had to issue an album with three parts, one of which would be some ultrasounds noone can really hear. brainwashing

 

What struck me which is how it starts with lots of activity which then reduces to almost nothing. I suppose it's kind of obvious that would happen, but is this what has been described as entropy?

 

It's kind of the reverse of what has happened in evolution. Evolution being based on the idea of continued progress through adaptation. The Hadron Collider doesn't seem to explain very much. Unless it explains the long haul and predicts that after a spurt of energy everything eventually settles into nothing.

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What struck me which is how it starts with lots of activity which then reduces to almost nothing. I suppose it's kind of obvious that would happen, but is this what has been described as entropy?

 

It's kind of the reverse of what has happened in evolution. Evolution being based on the idea of continued progress through adaptation. The Hadron Collider doesn't seem to explain very much. Unless it explains the long haul and predicts that after a spurt of energy everything eventually settles into nothing.

 

Er, I think in those tests from which the sound file is from, there is a short collision of the lead ions, but they cannot sustain a continous collision, so that's why the sounds die off. That's not about entropy at all (well except that the tests take a lot of energy, which in turn causes heat emissions and entropy increase, but there is nothing specific in this experiment). In general I don't think the album theme has anything to do with the particle collision tests, this work has been going on in CERN etc for decades, it's about looking for certain particles predicted by theories on different forces between particles... Really I don't see it has anything to do with environmental problems on Earth, or even with energy availability considerations.

 

I suppose it must be a bit disappointing however if he has worked hard to include cryptic little messages, in the video, or even a more blatant message and no one has noticed it.

 

Made me start to think a bit more about the video. There is the possibility of deliberate use of intertextuality. There seems to be a copy the cover of Absolution, in the shadows of people running, so perhaps this relates to an Apocalypse (so unusual for Muse! ). There appears to be the blatant use of the third eye of course, and I was wondering if there was significance in the use of both the tv and the robot screen, possibly the idea of robotic reporting that doesn't convey reality, but reality still finds it's way through the cracks, hence the reality is panic and terror maybe, looking at the flashes of the reporter's face, but it's sanitised. Also it could be a reference to the idea of economic man, the faulty assumption that people make decisions like machines.

 

I'm not sure there are any hidden messages on the video, but there are things I don't quite understand... Like what has the couple running in the woods to do with the theme (except that it seems like a continuation to NSC)? Escape from reality? In general there seems to be a lot of people running, escaping, in the video. And yeah there is the news reader and the robot (it makes me think more of a computer screen) telling ugly truths. Where do you see anything from Absolution? Hmm, I still think the idea of the screen telling the truth is more convincing than the screen (robot) being about machinistic decisions.

 

I guess the stock exchange panic shots are there to show the frenzy for growth which is then all unsustainable.

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I'm not sure there are any hidden messages on the video, but there are things I don't quite understand... Like what has the couple running in the woods to do with the theme (except that it seems like a continuation to NSC)? Escape from reality? In general there seems to be a lot of people running, escaping, in the video. And yeah there is the news reader and the robot (it makes me think more of a computer screen) telling ugly truths. Where do you see anything from Absolution? Hmm, I still think the idea of the screen telling the truth is more convincing than the screen (robot) being about machinistic decisions.

 

I guess the stock exchange panic shots are there to show the frenzy for growth which is then all unsustainable.

 

Why is this in this thread?

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Why is this in this thread?

 

Seemed like the best thread considering the new album discussion is in this section of threads, and video is sort of visual artwork. It doesn't really belong to twitter thread, and news section is difficult in general, the video is hardly news anymore and in News section threads do not bump up with new posts.

 

Of course, feel free to move discussion to a more suitable thread in case you have anything to say about the video or comments made about it.

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Er, I think in those tests from which the sound file is from, there is a short collision of the lead ions, but they cannot sustain a continous collision, so that's why the sounds die off. That's not about entropy at all (well except that the tests take a lot of energy, which in turn causes heat emissions and entropy increase, but there is nothing specific in this experiment). In general I don't think the album theme has anything to do with the particle collision tests, this work has been going on in CERN etc for decades, it's about looking for certain particles predicted by theories on different forces between particles... Really I don't see it has anything to do with environmental problems on Earth, or even with energy availability considerations.

 

Well I tried to understand Higgs Boson for myself but it is beyond me. So hopefully a simple question, do you know what the connection is between the tour artwork and the same picture being included in the article posted by Hyper about the Hadron collider, if it has nothing to do with the Hadron collider?

 

It may have already been posted but I'm a bit lost!

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Well I tried to understand Higgs Boson for myself but it is beyond me. So hopefully a simple question, do you know what the connection is between the tour artwork and the same picture being included in the article posted by Hyper about the Hadron collider, if it has nothing to do with the Hadron collider?

 

I have no idea what could be the connection. Nice picture? ;) No, I don't know particle physics much at all, so I can't really be sure Higgs boson has nothing to do with the entropy considerations, but I also can't see a clear connection. Is there anyone here more interested in the particle physics?

 

So I googled a bit... The picture comes from CERN Atlas experiment, as stated in the Daily Mail pic, and this is the picture text found on the Atlas web site, atlas.ch.

 

Simulated production of a black hole in ATLAS. This track is an example of simulated data modelled for the ATLAS detector on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, which will begin taking data in late 2009/2010. These tracks would be produced if a miniature black hole was created in the proton-proton collision. Such a small black hole would decay instantly to various particles via a process known as Hawking radiation.

 

My understanding of that approaches zero... This was quite funny explanation of the particle physics: http://www.atlas.ch/etours_physics/index.html, see slide 10 :)

 

Why don't you make a "video discussion thread" instead. That way you can discuss the videos of the upcoming singles as well.

 

I guess that's a good idea, but there doesn't seem to be interest anymore for the trailer video. Maybe do one when we get a video for the first single?

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It's basically an image mapping two protons colliding and those lines trace the paths of the particles resulting from it, including what could be a Higg's boson decaying, the means through which such a particle could be detected. You can't detect a Higg's directly but you can detect the particles that would result from it and deduce that they would have to come from a Higg's boson.

 

I guess the connection is that when a particle decays entropy increases, but no, it's not really relevant. I think it's more likely just a cool, physicsy picture that might result from google image searching entropy or something, but I don't know.

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It's basically an image mapping two protons colliding and those lines trace the paths of the particles resulting from it, including what could be a Higg's boson decaying, the means through which such a particle could be detected. You can't detect a Higg's directly but you can detect the particles that would result from it and deduce that they would have to come from a Higg's boson.

 

I guess the connection is that when a particle decays entropy increases, but no, it's not really relevant. I think it's more likely just a cool, physicsy picture that might result from google image searching entropy or something, but I don't know.

 

Thanks Niall, I think that makes sense to me.

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Probably would have helped to explain that when protons collide (hence, large hadron collider) they basically break apart into lots of other particles (the mass of these particles summed together is equal to the energy of the collision, by Einstein's equation equating mass with energy), including potentially the Higg's boson, which decay on their own and break up into lots of other particles. This picture maps the paths of the particles coming out of the collision.

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Unless it explains the long haul and predicts that after a spurt of energy everything eventually settles into nothing.

 

you are right about that. The universe is nothing and everything at the same time. if you are interested, check out this lecture on "Universe of Nothing" by famous physician Lawrence Krauss

 

 

I have no idea what could be the connection. Nice picture? ;) No, I don't know particle physics much at all, so I can't really be sure Higgs boson has nothing to do with the entropy considerations, but I also can't see a clear connection. Is there anyone here more interested in the particle physics?

 

 

Matt is. OOS was partly inspired/based on the book "The Elegant Universe" and I have read it. It explains on a very popular level the particle physics and the strings theory. So if I had to make a connection it would be:

universe - 2nd law (physics) - economy

 

Also, the whole theme of "We are the universe" ( which was used on the last tour) is related to that stream of thinking. There is a theory: people observing the laws of nature and making experiments can interfere with the nature. "Observing ourselves, destroying ourselves". Sort of like the "butterfly effect" by Bradbury. Also used in "Butterflies and Hurricanes" theme. There is a whole controversy about LHC experiments affecting normal development of our environment, weather, etc.

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