"The Ultimate Melody" | |||
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Short story by Arthur C. Clarke | |||
Country | United Kingdom | ||
Language | English | ||
Genre(s) | Science fiction | ||
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Published in | If | ||
Publication type | Magazine | ||
Publisher | Quinn Publications | ||
Publication date | February 1957 | ||
Chronology | |||
Series | Tales from the White Hart | ||
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"The Ultimate Melody" is a science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1957.[1] The story describes the work of a physiologist who attempts to discover the connections between music and the rhythms of the electrical pulses in the brain. He believed that all "hit-tunes" were merely poor reflections of an "ultimate" melody, and he built a machine to search for this tune. By the end of the story, he succeeds, but the influence of the melody is so powerful that he becomes completely catatonic.
The piece was later published as the sixth story in Clarke's collection Tales from the White Hart.[2]
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Transcription
[Morgan Freeman] So. What are we really made of? Dig deep inside the atom and you'll find tiny particles held together by invisible forces. (held together by invisible forces.) Everything is made up of tiny packets of energy born in cosmic furnaces. [Frank Close] The atoms that we're made of have negatively charged electrons whirling around a big bulky nucleus. [Michio Kaku] The Quantum Theory (Quantum Theory) offers a very different explanation of our world. [Brian Cox] The universe is made of twelve particles of matter four forces of nature The universe is made of twelve particles of matter four forces of nature that's a wonderful and significant story. [Richard Feynman] Suppose that little things behaved very differently than anything big. (anything big.) Nothing's really as it seems. It's so wonderfully different than anything big! The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things! It's hard to believe [Kaku] That Quantum Theory (Quantum Theory) is so strange and bizarre even Einstein couldn't get his head around it. In the Quantum world, the world of particles, nothing is certain. It's a world of probabilities. [Kaku] The Quantum Theory offers a very different explanation of our world. [Cox] The universe is made of twelve particles of matter four forces of nature The universe is made of twelve particles of matter four forces of nature that's a wonderful and significant story. [Feynman] It's very hard to imagine all the crazy things that things really are like. (are like. are like.) Electrons act like waves. No they don't exactly. They act like particles. No they don't exactly. [Stephen Hawking] We need a theory of everything (need a theory of everything) which is still just beyond our grasp. (still just beyond our grasp.) We need a theory of everything (need a theory of everything) perhaps the ultimate triumph the ultimate triumph of science. [Kaku] The Quantum Theory (Quantum Theory) offers a very different explanation of our world. [Cox] The universe is made of twelve particles of matter four forces of nature The universe is made of twelve particles of matter four forces of nature that's a wonderful and significant story. [Feynman] I gotta stop somewhere... I'll leave you something to imagine! (Subs by Sam Timmins.)
References
- ^ "Bibliography: The Ultimate Melody". Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Retrieved 11 December 2013.
- ^ Clarke, Arthur C. (1957). Tales from the White Hart. London: Ballantine Books. p. Forward.
External links
- The Ultimate Melody title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database