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The Geometry of Music
An anonymous reader notes a Time.com profile of Princeton University music theorist Dmitri Tymoczko, who has applied some string-theory math to the study of music and found that all possible chordal music can be represented in a higher-dimensional space. His research was published last year in Science — it was the first paper on music theory they ever ran. The paper and background material, including movies, can be viewed at Tymoczko's site.
Am I the only one who immediately thought of the computer scientist in Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency?
Lots of people found out exactly this in the sixties.
...or, maybe it wasn't the music, but the copious amount of hallucinogens that were taking them to higher dimensions.
Just -1, Troll talking to another.
Dice, shmice. More cowbell is all that's needed to solve the equation.
Well, thanks to the Internet, I'm now bored with sex.
Finally there's a hard piece of work that demostrates the usefulness of String Theory.... oh wait.... it doesn't.
Quit channeling Stockhausen ;).
I don't need no instructions to know how to ROCK!
"I'd want solid evidence"
Yeah, Science will print any crackpot theory...oh wait...dammit...I've conflated Slashdot and Science, again! Second time this week...
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.