Can anyone speak to the Physics of the Ainulindale?

[Vardamar]

Matter cannot be created or destroyed, only converted. Since all the matter in the universe had to have been created during the Big Bang, and that in the universe’s early days its volume was much smaller, the density of the matter in space was much higher. Since sound needs to travel through a medium, it cannot travel though space today, but while the matter in the universe was denser, it could. Don’t forget, before gravity had started to compress certain areas of the universe, the matter was pretty evenly distributed. So the music of the Ainur could of taken place in the universe, before the matter became to thinly distributed.

Hopes this helps, and makes sense. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

[ March 24, 2003: Message edited by: Vardamar ]