Understanding the Universal Music

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Adult
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Since Pythagoras, scientists and philosophers have seen connections between periodic motions, whether in the different orbital periods of planets or in the notes of a scale. Today, that same mathematics underlies fields as diverse as tuning theory in music and quantum mechanics.

Speaker Bio:

Jonathan Rebelsky is an Analytical Chemistry PhD Candidate in the Department of Chemistry. Jonathan earned a Bachelor’s of Arts degree from Grinnell College in Music and Chemistry and works in the Widicus Weaver lab studying prebiotic ions and radicals in the interstellar medium.

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