Art Makes Us Human, Music Makes Us

No Matter How Hard You Try To Teach Your Cat General Relativity, You're Going To Fail.

I Have Long Thought That Anyone Who Does Not Regularly - Or Ever - Gaze Up And See The Wonder And Glory Of A Dark Night Sky Filled With Countless Stars Loses A Sense Of Their Fundamental Connectedness To The Universe.

Einstein Comes Along And Says, Space And Time Can Warp And Curve, That's What Gravity Is. Now String Theory Comes Along And Says, Yes, Gravity, Quantum Mechanics, Electromagnetism - All Together In One Package, But Only If The Universe Has More Dimensions Than The Ones That We See.

In Essence, We String Theorists Have Been Trying To Work Out The Score Of The Universe, The Harmonies Of The Universe, The Mathematical Vibrations That The Strings Would Play. So Musical Metaphors Have Been With Us In Science Since The Beginning.

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