'Get in the groove': Something I assume nobody will bother implementing ever

You know how when you're driving a long the highway, and you get to a nice stretch where for minutes at a time there are no repairs or the slightest pot holes and you just drive along listening to the beat of the seams of the concrete slabs, and the grooves embedded in the concrete give a certain pleasant drone to the drive? And then you get off the highway and the grooves stop and life is somehow just that little bit more boring?

What makes that droning noise is the tires spinning along the pavement and the tone or pitch of the drone comes from the width of the grooves.

And that is the start of the idea.

The grooves are created at the time the concrete is laid  (this works for a concrete highly which will 'hold' the grooves, on a local street the asphalt is too soft to maintain the grooves). A different groove separation width (not the grooves themselves, but the distance between the grooves) would produce a different tone with the speeding tires.

So the suggestion is to modify the groove tracer mechanism, which scores the soft concrete being laid down linearly by the machine that lays the concrete, modify it so that the distance between tines is not fixed but is instead modifiable. Some sort of caliper action for the whole width of tines. And have this calibrated so that particular notes could be created in succession, allowing melodies to be embedded into the highway. Hey, go wild, you could have two part harmony if you groove differently the left half vs the right half of a lane.

So you could have say the highway leading into the airport playing the melody for 'Stairway to Heaven' or route 95 in northern NewJersey with the view of the Manhattan skyline playing 'New York, NewYork'.

Of course there are issues. Musically, the pitch is determined by groove width and to some extent by tire tread markings. The speed of the car doesn't alter the pitch considerably because the groove width is parallel to the tires' direction. The tempo would certainly change. There's the safety issue of the distraction of hearing this subtly melodic droning as you drive, but it's not as distracting as billboards. There should definitely be some signage alerting drivers to the sound so they don't think they're going crazy, can't get that tune out of my head.

I think this would only be realistically feasible for long stretches of road like a highway. If local streets were paved in such a manner, intersections and other slower cars would impede satisfactory 'playing' of the melody.

So now how to create a monetization model out of this. Commercial jingles, I-57 sponsored by Anhaeuser-Busch with the Budweiser theme? Christos superscale artwork?

Science is all mental

Science is all about figuring things out. How do I move this big rock? Which way do a turn the wheel when parked on a hill? Why is that guy such a jerk?

That's all dealing with real world things but we're doing it with our thoughts. The non-obviously obvious ways of doing it are:

Looking or using memory - You can't just make things up (which memory often does sometimes), so you have to look to to make sure you're not remembering wrong. Your mind may make ideas, but you should check them against reality to make sure you're not wrong/crazy.

Naming - we use language to communicate what we have ideas about with others. But frankly, just for ourselves, giving a name to something, using that name with something the same, giving another name to something that is different, those are all mental tools even for yourself.

Guessing well - names don't always fit perfectly or are vague, but start with one word and if that doesn't fit, then use another or create a new one.