Re: [Phys-l] physics in music

[chuck britton <britton@ncssm.edu>]

Paula Abdul

It's a natural fact
Opposites attract

	Electric charges, magnetic poles  - - it keeps coming up with great  
glee.

	Then (if) we get to parallel and anti-parallel currents - - oops,  
what now?




On Mar 15, 2008, at 9:22 PM, Brian Blais wrote:

> On Mar 15, 2008, at Mar 15:9:01 PM, Anthony Lapinski wrote:
>
> > I'm a big music fan, and just wanted to share this lyric info with  
> > the
> > group. Anyone know of other science lyrics in popular songs?
>
> In class I mention "Drops of Jupiter" from Train, which has:
>
> "Tell me did you sail across the sun
> Did you make it to the milky way to see the lights all faded
> And that heaven is overrated"
>
>
> where, if they are already in the solar system, then they don't need
> to make it to the milky way.  I also have used from "Don't say
> goodbye", Paulina Rubio:
>
> "
> Even though We'll be apart
> We'll see the same stars
> Just close your eyes
> And I'll be where you are
> Don't say goodbye
> Cuz if you say that word my heart won't survive
>
> "
>
> I ask my students if they believe the singer was intending that her
> boyfriend was going to move to somewhere on the same latitude, given
> that they'd see the same stars.
>
>
> and there is a song "Want to" by Sugarland, with
>
> "Whole world could change in a minute
> Just one kiss could stop it spinning
> We could think it through
> But I don't want to, if you don't want to
> "
>
> which would be an extraordinarily powerful kiss.  :)
>
>
>
> 				bb
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> Brian Blais
> bblais@bryant.edu
> http://web.bryant.edu/~bblais
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