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Pitch sequences are classificed disregarding the effects of five musical transformations: octave shift, permutation, transposition, inversion, and cardinality change. These may be modelled according to 32 families of quotient spaces for octave , transposition, triad permutations etc. Theses structures are moduli spaces.

The general question asked is then what commonality do you think there is between music physics and the foundations of the universe?

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That's a really vague question, and besides it doesn't solicit useful answers in its current form because you're basically just polling opinions. You could improve the question by not asking what people think, but asking about what has been studied, and by being more specific about the kind of commonalities you're looking for. I'm guessing you're going for something more than "they both have symmetry groups." ;-) – David Zaslavsky♦ Jan 28 '11 at 3:58
I have run across a paper that related music theory to moduli spaces. Perhaps that is what @Lawrence was referring to. But yes, without that reference or some further clarity on what the OP wishes to ask this question is not useful. – user346 Jan 28 '11 at 4:54
Such ideas: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musica_universalis never die :=( At the time of greek speculators this could be forgiven, today not – Georg Jan 28 '11 at 12:04

closed as not a real question by David Zaslavsky♦ Jan 28 '11 at 3:58

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