| Scar Symmetry – Quantumleaper Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Well, kind of. I think you just have to see this from a physical view. It's about the wave-particle dualism. These are not the only lyrics from Holographic Universe that are - at least partly - about physical phenomenoms, and they always have a philosophic component, too. The wave-particle dualism is one of the most important basics of the quantum theory; it says that every particle, for example an electron, is also a wave at the same time. The frequence is, as far as I remember, dependent from the mass of the particle, and so on. This is something you can for example see when making experiments with light; it can be diffracted like a wave, but it can also behave like a normal particle. I hope I got that right in general.... And the lyrics refer to all this. Humans can't really imagine and understand this dualism, it is an "eerie paradox". This thing, whatever it is ("enigma") is "wave and lepton" it can go through other things (the electron tunneling effect; "chosse where I can't go and I'm there") and so on. And then the next thing, which is also a topic in one or two other songs from the new album: If you observe things, they change. It is like the experiment with the cat Schrödinger once described - things can be described with a function if they are not obeserved, and as soon as they are observed, they have a certain state: "If you rise I'll fall" - if you observe, I become a certain thing (wave or lepton). |
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| Scar Symmetry – The Three Dimensional Shadow Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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The lyrics of Scar Symmetry are better than anything I've seen before. In my opinion, this song refers to Plato's Cave Allegory. It is just written with one additional dimension. While the persons in the cave allegory see only 2d shadows, we can see things three-dimensional - but though, we're just shadows of something ("revealing the concealed"; "to view the paths unknown"). The song tells how humans leave their 3d cave and explore the unknown world (unknown an ocean) outside. At the moment, we know nothing (strangers in our own world), but this will change soon (it's time to turn the page). |
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