Thread: Can anyone speak to the Physics of the Ainulindale?
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Old 03-24-2003, 07:16 PM   #32
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"The music of the Ainur is in no meaningful way analogous to vibrations in the medium of the early universe."

hmm why not?

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Tolkien's universe does not operate in terms of quantum mechanics or even (on the grandest scale) entropy.
can you elaborate a tiny bit without it being too involved?
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