Wed, 01 May 2024 18:20:21 -0400WeeblyMon, 02 Jan 2023 05:00:00 GMThttp://marcwagnon.com/musicscience/a-cosmic-misunderstandingDuring my second trip on the Big Island of Hawai’i, a trip that turned out to be as spectacular as the first one, was made quite unique by the fact that the Mauna Loa volcano started erupting the day we arrived. This made me quite happy, especially since the weather predictions were not looking too good for the week. If I was not able to see and photograph the fire in the sky (i.e. stars), I would get to see it coming out of the ground. But this post will not be about this event, but about the ongoing controversy regarding Mauna Loa’s neighbor volcano Mauna Kea and the telescopes sitting atop it decoding the universe. Full article here]]>Sat, 06 Jun 2020 14:15:12 GMThttp://marcwagnon.com/musicscience/about-the-monochordUntil recently, I had some difficulty explaining the origin of the link between music and science. Of course, I understood this deep connection, that frequencies are ultimately numbers, and they relate to each other in rational intervals. This understanding is due to the fascinating fact that the ear has both qualitative and quantitative abilities: it has the ability to understand the moods/colors and the ratios of sounds. This ability makes it a pretty unique sense; in fact, it is the only sense that can accurately measure and “feel” at the same time. Full article here
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