People often ask the question "What is Music?", and there are many different answers given. But most of these answers ignore a cold hard fact about our understanding of music, which is that we don't know what music is.

A very important achievement of my theory is how it unifies explanations of pitch perception and rhythm perception.

How to make a billion dollars by solving what might be (or might not be) a simple puzzle ...

The Internet is a great place to find answers to questions, and search engines are the usual starting point if you have a new question. But if you actually type a question into the search field of popular search engines, the result is not quite as useful as it could be.

There are many ways that you can reach this website, but one way you cannot reach it is to search for the quoted phrase "what is music?" on Google. This is because whatismusic.info is stuck in the infamous Google Sandbox.

These days there are many theories about scientific subjects proposed by those outside the mainstream. An immediate problem with most of them is that they ignore or contradict orthodox science.

But the science behind the super-stimulus theory is very orthodox indeed.