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This paper draws future perspectives of music as a comprising cultural achievement of humans. We discuss the role of music for mathematics and physics from Pythagoras to String Theory, its global human presence, transcending specific fields of knowledge in its synthetical force that unifies distant fields of knowledge and action in the concrete and abstract realms.
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The Internet was invented by Tim Berners-Lee at the CERN to coordinate nuclear research efforts globally.
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Even where music is virtually forbidden, with the Taliban, for example, its force is recognized, and that is why it is forbidden, sad irony.
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These are photons for the electromagnetic force, W and Z bosons for the weak force, gluons for strong force, and hypothetical gravitons for gravitation.
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The number of affine transformations on the local score of the software [8, Ch. 49] is
$$ 10'445'260'466'832'483'579'436'191'905'936'640'000 \approx 1.04453\times 10^{37}. $$ - 5.
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Mazzola, G. (2019). ComMute—Towards a Computational Musical Theory of Everything. In: Montiel, M., Gomez-Martin, F., Agustín-Aquino, O.A. (eds) Mathematics and Computation in Music. MCM 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11502. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21392-3_2
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