If you were to travel through space alongside a photon,what music should play?

[Frog march]

I think Einstein said something about imagining traveling alongside a photon.
But what music would you choose to go with this?

I think perhaps Tubular Bells

[farmerjumperdon]

Particle Man. Definitely.

[Swift]

Lite rock?

[Disinfo Agent]

That's a trick question, isn't it? The answer is Gyorgyi Ligeti, of course. ;)

[Fazor]

I'd be too busy shouting "Commence ludicrous speed!" to hear any music

[Mister Earl]

Don't do it, Fazor! You'll go plaid!

[speedfreek]

I'm tempted to suggest something by the Electric Light Orchestra, or maybe Einstein-A-Gogo. ;)

But seriously (or semi seriously!), I would have to consider the effects of time dilation on my musical experience, and thus go for a track that came to a peak just as I reached c itself, whereupon I would stop experiencing time for the duration I was travelling at c. As I began to (somehow) slow down again, the music would continue from the crescendo! I would have to have the best part just after I had travelled at c if I can't have it during...

Hmmmm... what track to pick? Let's see... I'm thinking majestic but awesomely heavy.... why am I thinking of a scene in a car from Wayne's World all of a sudden?

"Mama mia,mama mia,mama mia let me go.
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me,for me,for me...."

<discontinuity>

Bang that head! :D

[eburacum45]

4' 33" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4%E2%80%B233%E2%80%B3) by John Cage. The abridged version, naturally.

[Celestial Mechanic]

Only problem is if you did ride along with the photon, no proper time would pass. You'd arrive instantaneously without any elapsed time to listen to anything. :(

[Half Wit]

Only problem is if you did ride along with the photon, no proper time would pass. You'd arrive instantaneously without any elapsed time to listen to anything. :(


So it doesn't really matter what you choose then ;)

[eburacum45]

That was the point of my suggestion. For those who don't know, and didn't read the link, 4'33" is a piece of modern(ish) music consisting of four minutes and thirty three seconds of silence.

The abridged second version is zero seconds of silence; 0′00″, Cage called it. That is the only music one would hear travelling alongside a photon.

[Occam]

Tripping The Light Fantastic (http://www.amazon.com/Tripping-Light-Fantastic-Lit/dp/B000031KHF) would seem appropriate

[Maksutov]

I think Einstein said something about imagining traveling alongside a photon.
But what music would you choose to go with this?...Just about anything marked prestissimo.

[Zachary]

I've always imagined a gushing roar kinda sound, no music. Maybe I just have no imagination :p

[Swift]

Only problem is if you did ride along with the photon, no proper time would pass. You'd arrive instantaneously without any elapsed time to listen to anything. :(
So maybe we would want Chicago's "Does anyone really know what time it is (does anyone really care)?"

[novaderrik]

"Negasonic Teenage Warhead" by Monster Magnet.

[Eric Vaxxine]

The noise made by the charge of the 'Light Brigade'.

[V-GER]

Don't stop me now by Queen.