[extropy-chat] Music and Science

[The Avantguardian]

--- pjmanney <pj at pj-manney.com> wrote:
> Are there any other scientists you know who have
> achieved intellectual breakthroughs or more general
> inspiration while either playing or listening to
> music?

Johannes Kepler was greatly inspired by what he though
of as the "music of the spheres". A concept first
proposed by Pythagoras the ancient Greek. Kepler's
three laws of planetary motion still hold their own
under General Relativity, faring much better than
Newton's laws in this regard. Here is a site that
discusses it:

http://www.skyscript.co.uk/kepler.html

Warning: the site is an astrology site but there was
not a big difference between astrology and astronomy
in Kepler's time.




Stuart LaForge
alt email: stuart"AT"ucla.edu

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." - Phillip K. Dick


 
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