I'm Pretty Sure this is a Scale Model of the Universe (Cymatics Video from the 60's)

[warwick.hoy]

I skip past the old guy talking. The good stuff starts about 4 minutes in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05Io6lop3mk

I think this puts a lot of what I've learned about the Universe from the History Channel into a nice little nutshell. Everything is made up of waveforms vibrating at different frequencies.

[My name is Mudd]

Some of the rotating examples at the 5:00 point do look like spiral galaxies.