Einstein's violin : a conductor's notes on music, physics, and social change /
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| Author / Creator: | Eger, Joseph, 1920-2013 |
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| Imprint: | New York : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, c2005. |
| Description: | xiv, 417 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5617203 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. How I came to write this book
- 2. Guns in my face : music at my back
- 3. How it all began - back to 1951
- 4. Fun in music and physics
- 5. What it's like to be a musician
- 6. What is music?
- 7. Songs of praise
- 8. Music as context
- 9. Music's dagger
- 10. Personal wars
- 11. Conductors, consistency, and change
- 12. The audience revolution
- 13. Beethoven, my hero
- 14. Beethoven's music
- 15. Fantastique : Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
- 16. Einstein the person
- 17. Music and science
- 18. The quantum revolution
- 19. The science of music : the music of science
- 20. Superstring theory
- 21. Race toward the goal
- 22. Superstrings : my neighbor's territory
- 23. Up scale and down scale
- 24. Newton to Einstein to Bohr to Witten : still seeking a home-run century of revolutionary science
- 25. Physics and music : music waves
- 26. Proof?
- 27. Kepler's world harmony to the rescue
- 28. Appearance or essence?
- 29. Modern physics
- 30. How about us? : are we made of waves, particles, or music?
- 31. Quantum mysticism
- 32. What is real?
- 33. Extraterrestrial music
- 34. Are we all on the Newtonian path?
- 35. Creativity
- 36. Context and frames of reference
- 37. Is the universe really made of music?
- 38. Molecular friends and enemies
- 39. Alchemy : the "black magic"
- 40. How is a symphony orchestra like a hologram?
- 41. Peripheral imagery
- 42. The mystery of coincidence
- 43. Physicists and the music of brain waves
- 44. Mathematics : skip this chapter (but I urge the reader not to take my advice)
- 45. More connections
- 46. God, appearance, and reality
- 47. Absolute truth : design versus evolution
- 48. A crisis in physics
- 49. Social change according to Einstein
- 50. Music's dangers
- 51. Arts and science power
- 52. Eleanor Roosevelt and our nation's capital
- 53. Artistic freedom
- 54. Music : agent of social change
- 55. The crisis deepens
- 56. Our post-human future
- 57. Science and religion
- 58. God gets into the ring with causality
- 59. A free violinist and a free atom
- 60. Theory and reality : does the music work?
- 61. What is being done?
- 62. Science courts music's vibes
- 63. Music and culture
- 64. Language power
- 65. The unanswered question
- 66. Art power
- 67. The physics of music : the music of physics
- 68. A revolution in physics and music
- 69. Civilization and the good society
- 70. Is it too late?
- 71. Beginningism and endism
- 72. Doomsday : the end of the end
- 73. Music and physics to the rescue?
