[Astrophe (John)]

Markbakovic, Thank you for your extensive response, but there is no need to be so defensive, as I was speaking in the 'round' not in the specific. Much of the learning and knowledge of the ancient Greeks, Egyptians, etc, has been lost, so it is not at all fair to allude to them (as you appear to), as being mere 'thought spinners'.

I'll just go to one point for the moment. The Music of the Spheres, was a concept based on the assumption that all matter is made up of vibrations....that there is no real solid matter at all, but that everything is at base.....music...or sound....vibrations. This conclusion is not as foolish as it might seem at first glance, because, as we know, atoms are made up of vibrating particles and while the ancients obviously had no first hand knowledge of the existence of protons and neutrons, etc, they appear to have had access to knowledge which hinted at the existence of infinitely small particles and that the world of the senses, was, by and large, composed of ever finer grades of matter and that these particles made 'music' as they went about their business. It is a somewhat poetical way of expressing things, but nonetheless, apposite.