• Question: do you believe in karma or god? and what is you're houghts on how the earth was created? and do you think you could envolve music in science? and could you explain how? because i LOVE! LOVE! LOVE! music and it would make it a bit more....exciting for me to know thanks

    Asked by blackveilbridesmaid11 to Davie, Gemma, James P, James V, Nuala on 27 Jun 2012.
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      James Pope answered on 27 Jun 2012:

      Hi blackveilbridesmaid11,

      I don’t believe in God or Karma, but I do believe that it is important to always try and do the right thing and to look out for your family and friends as they are always important in life!

      As for music in science, they go hand in hand. While apart from listening to it all day at work to help me get through my work, music can’t be involved in my science, there are plenty of universities in the UK which offer course such as Music with Physics, because music has a large element of physics to it, because every note we hear is caused by sound waves moving through the air compressing and expanding the air around us. So it is very possible for you to study both science and music and combine both in a career. Hope that is what you wanted to hear!

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      Nuala Carson answered on 28 Jun 2012:

      Hey blackveilbridesmaid11,

      I do actually believe in Karma in a round about way. I do think that if you do good things then good things will happen to you. I think people always get what the deserve in the end.

      Yeah there are loads of cool ways you can combine music and science! My friends is researching music in video games. Theres loads of science involved in that, trying to work out how certain music affects us in different ways.

      Music is such an important part of lots of peoples lives which makes it an interesting topic to study and know more about! So if you really are interested then keep at it and you could be a really famous scientist one day if you discover something interesting!

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      James Verdon answered on 28 Jun 2012:

      Hi blackveilbridesmaid11,
      Like James P, I don’t believe in karma or god. You should always try to do the right thing in life, not because you might get punished by god or karma if you don’t, but simply because it’s the right thing to do!

      There is a whole area of science dedicated to how sound waves behave. It’s called acoustics. Check it out on wikipedia. Acoustic scientists play a really important role in things like designing concert halls to ensure that the sound quality from the orchestra is as good as possible. They’re also really important for designing recording studios and things like that.

      Weirdly, there’s a lot in common with what I do and what acoustic scientists do. Earthquake waves moving through the earth are basically like very large, very low frequency sound waves. So a lot of the methods and techniques we use to model how earthquake waves travel through the earth are also used by acoustic scientists to model how sound waves travel around an auditorium.

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    blackveilbridesmaid11 commented on :

    i’ve done soundwaves and things like that oin my science class and we had a test on it and i surprisingly got a 6B in it because it was a really intresting topic for me and even though i’m not to keen on science thhat was a boost for me lol, and if i need to create an account of something i will make sure that my fave band is the name lol (blackveilbrdesmaid11=black veil brides)

    james pope: thanks for answering and i’m trying to see if you could relate religion to science lolz so yeah that kind of was what i wanted to hear 🙂

    Nuala C: first, you have a very cool, unusual name, and i think it’s awesome lol, secondly thanks for replying, thirdly, the games to music ratio is also what we aere studying in music and drama lol so thanks 🙂 and lastly i also believe with every part of my heart that music can save lives and that it is extremely important, and thank you for replying again 😛

    James V: i’m an atheist also, i didn’t know that about building the studios, that’s really intresting thanks 🙂 and lastly thank you for replying 😛

    Never give in,

    blackveilbridesmaid11