A Cosmic Symphony: Molecules as the Chords of Music

In my father's latest email, he shared with me his theory that molecules have a set of vibrations that are determined by their atomic arrangements.  While she has told me a fair share of her fringe ideas, some of which are ludicrous to the point of me feigning interest, this one is actually revealing, and explains something fundamental about chemical theory that I never considered.  A student of chemistry might ask, "Why do atoms share electrons in arbitrary valence shells when they bond?"  The shells follow strict rules in bonding, but nobody asks why the numbers two and eight are such important numbers when it comes to keeping molecules together. 

My father's idea likens the atomic structure to a musical instrument, with the electron arrangements as its chords.  Certain chords from different instruments resonate with each other, like they would in a song, creating a structure of sound so aesthetically pleasing that it's easy to see how one false note would collapse the music.  And since electrons are known to behave like waves, per Young's double-slit experiment that proved they behaved like particles and waves simultaneously, I agree with him that special vibrations must be occurring between atoms in molecules that are undetectable by our instruments.  The only explanation we can think of is that the quantum element in their duality is extending to a higher dimension that we can't see, allowing all the atoms in molecules to vibrate and bond with each other. 

To be clearer, harmony between atoms means they would bond, while dissonance means they wouldn't.  Harmony causes attraction, disharmony repulsion.  Only a special few sounds in nature will ever harmonize to create a pleasing rhythm, while a great many won't harmonize at all, just like the many elements that don't bond with each other in a given arrangement.  Loose ion radicals are what cause the acidic destruction when elements can't find a bonding partner, resulting in chaos, catastrophe, cacophony. 

Furthermore, there is a relation in Pythagorean Tuning stating that aesthetical harmonies are the result of mathematical ratios, similar to the valence ratios of the periodic table.  There is also an association that relates the periodic table with the ratios of a Golden Spiral.  The atomic numbers of all the elements of a given group in the periodic table tend to follow phi, the ratio of the Fibonacci Sequence, the Golden Ratio culminating in the Golden Spiral, as harmonically pleasing an image as you will ever find.  This application to sacred geometry is the only thing that gives the periodic table a meaningful structure, at least to me. 

Perhaps this is all metaphorical, but the idea makes a lot more sense than particle-based valence shells causing elements to bond.  One has to admit the particle-based rules are arbitrary without a "cosmic symphony" orchestrating things.  Since it is arbitrary, a chord-based theory may be more appropriate for explaining the resonance between the elements.