Muziek en wetenschap

Mooi conclusie in een (zeer) onverwacht artikel in Financial Times met onder andere een interview met Dopplereffekt:

Du Sautoy reminds me that the most famous sequence of numbers in the world was discovered by a group of Indian musicians experimenting with rhythmic possibilities, long before a certain 13th-century mathematician named Fibonacci got there. “Often a musician can arrive at a new structure which has scientific resonance. Music can raise questions for us that we’ve never really thought of before.” From techno to relativity theories, he continues, “we are moving into an age where people who are making the big progress are those who are prepared to straddle several areas.”

 (Overigens, ligt het aan mij of worden steeds meer online-artikelen volgestopt met afbeeldingen?)

De muziek van de kleinste deeltjes

During the whirlwind introduction, Fontana spent some time at the starting point of the LHC. There, atoms of hydrogen are stripped of their electrons so only positively charged protons remain. An electric field begins to accelerate the protons while a series of magnets focus them into a beam.
Fontana recorded the sounds. The popping, tapping dance beat of the protons’ regular release is underlaid with the hiss of cooling water and the heavy clang of the magnets charging and discharging. 

Bill Fontana neemt geluiden op van de Large Hardon Collider. Techno snobs als ondergetekende denken meteen: is de fantasie niet mooier dan de realiteit?