This work creates a parallelism between sound waves and electromagnetic waves. The five straight lines normally found in a music staff are replaced by waves of decreasing wavelengths as they get higher on the sheet. This is explained by an increase of frequency as a sound wave gets higher pitched, represented by higher notes placed in the staff. Also, the waves are changing colors, from red to violet, as their wavelength decreases. This establishes a relation between sound and light: a sound gets higher pitched where a light goes from red to purple, as their wavelengths decrease. In another perspective, the quantum theory can be applied when referring to the musical notation. This notation places all notes on a certain definite level of pitch or frequency and cannot be subdivided further than the smallest interval possible, a half-tone. This interval can be seen by two notes completely side to side on the keyboard seen below, for example C to C♯ or E to F. Furthermore, the eight “quantized” notes of the basic C major scale can also represent eight electrons on their quantized levels; ranging from the lower C (the first note), which can be considered as on the ground state, to the higher C (the last note), which has been ionized, or noted by n=∞.

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