Math is quite a good universal language, and atomic theory apparently. I believe that is what SETI uses to search for exterrestrial life.
That's what I was referring to. Even though I don't understand complext math at all, I really appreciated what some people can do with it. The book
Contact by Carl Sagan is an excellent example. Of course all of you who have seen the movie get the general idea of the story line.
And even music is difficult: my husband is a jazz-freak, and I just don't get the beauty of a Miles Davis improvisation. Maybe Mozart's music touches the hearts of all people in the world?
I was just speaking of music in general. You do like music right? Maybe not necessarily jazz (I only like some of it, but have never much liked Davis's fusion style...I do appreciate what he did though). I don't like Mozart all that much either, I find him boring. But basically, music moves people. It's vastly different, but it's something that can bring us together. I'm a musician and I've worked with people from different countries and we couldn't speak the same language. But we were able to sit down and play music together and that's something wonderful I think.
In a way it all comes back to math though. Music is based on mathematics. There are intervals and the break down of beats, not to mention sound waves are all based on physics. That sort of thing doesn't change when you cross a country border or an ocean....the physics of sound waves doesn't change when you leave this earth. Hence a universal language.