Klarinet Archive - Posting 000943.txt from 2004/07

From: ormondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: [kl] The truths (?) hidden in language
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 16:32:43 -0400

OK, this is a bit florid, but....

from "The Elegant Universe" by physicist Brian Greene, Chapter 6:

Music has long since provided the metaphors of choice for those puzzling
over questions of cosmic concern. From the ancient Pythagorean "music
of the spheres" to the "harmonies of nature" that have guided inquiry
through the ages, we have collectively sought the song of nature in the
gentle wanderings of celestial bodies and the riotous fulminations of
subatomic particles. With the discovery of superstring theory, musical
metaphors take on a startling reality, for the theory suggests that the
microscopic landscape is suffused with tiny strings whose vibrational
patterns orchestrate the evolution of the cosmos.

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