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J.S.Bach appreciation in Duvall

J.S.Bach appreciation in Duvall. Science and Spirituality, by a Road Less Traveled From Bach to Einstein and Beyond Variations on Science, Music and Human Affairs Science, and Music, with Exuberance and Humility To play organ properly, one should have a vision of Eternity (and Infinity)

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J.S.Bach appreciation in Duvall

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  1. J.S.Bach appreciation in Duvall

  2. Science and Spirituality, by a Road Less Traveled From Bach to Einstein and Beyond Variations on Science, Music and Human Affairs Science, and Music, with Exuberance and Humility To play organ properly, one should have a vision of Eternity (and Infinity) Making a Coherent Whole out of Science, Music and Human Affairs Saint Mark’s Sunday Forums, April 11&18, 2010 with Vladimir Chaloupka, Professor of Physics Adjunct Professor, School of Music Adjunct Professor, Jackson School of International Studies Note: links to an online version of the Powerpoint slides, and to the handout, with clickable links, can be found at www.phys.washington.edu/users/vladi

  3. The Saint Mark’s Sunday Forums on Science, Music and Spirituality April 11 & 18, 2010 with Vladimir (“Vladi”) Chaloupka University of Washington Note: for an online version of this handout, with clickable links to additional readings, go to this site: www.phys.washington.edu/users/vladi All comments will be most appreciated at vladi@u.washington.edu

  4. OUTLINE: Part I. (Last week): Laying the Groundwork Recall: 1) Recent Physics Colloquium:“Why is there Something rather than Nothing?” Conclusion: “Maybe there is Nothing, cleverly disguised as Something.” 2) The Basic Problem and the Big Gap 3) “We find in Thomas’s story the beauty that can unfold from an honest expression of doubt. … “ 4) An ordinary truth, and a Great Truth Part II: Homework Part III. (Today): Quantum Physics, Tour of the Universe, and Science and Spirituality. Part IV: (post Forums): More readings

  5. Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could …………………… and I— I took the one less traveled by ….

  6. After E=mc2 last week: another example of Modern Physics: The Central Mystery of Quantum Physics 1) click, click,..

  7. Example of Modern Physics: The Central Mystery of Quantum Physics 2) No clicks

  8. Example of Modern Physics: The Central Mystery of Quantum Physics 3) click, click, …

  9. Example of Modern Physics: The Central Mystery of Quantum Physics 4) No clicks

  10. A brief but Grand Tour of the Universe. Our Sun (8 light minutes away). Note the giant protuberance on the lower right. The size of the Earth is comparable to one of the little specks.

  11. Grand Cosmic Recycling: Exploding star (3,800 light years away) enriches the interstellar medium with heavy elements needed for life. New stars, with planets, will form in a few hundred million years. Every single atom of oxygen, nitrogen carbon,… in your body was in a star before. We literally came from the stars.

  12. The Andromeda Galaxy: 2 million light years away. The most distant object visible by naked eye (you have to know where to look, and find a really dark place, but the experience is very much worth it!) Note: for details on when and how to see Andromeda, see http://www.physics.ucla.edu/ ~huffman/m31.html

  13. Each white dot represent a galaxy (with about 100 billions stars each) as determined by the measurement results of the “2df galaxy survey”. Note the distance scale.

  14. Black hole (a singularity with a mass of 6.4 billion Suns) at center of the galaxy M87 (55 million light years away) with globular clusters (the faint yellow cloud is the billions of the stars of the galaxy itself; the visible dots are globular clusters (see next slide))

  15. Globular cluster Omega Centauri

  16. Hubble telescope photograph of a center of a globular star cluster.

  17. The famous “Hubble Deep Field”.

  18. This was the famous Hubble Deep Field: Magnification is so large that only one star of own Galaxy is in the picture. (See an animation of the process at http://www.phys.washington.edu/users/vladi/phys216/forGrandTour/HST_deep.mpg and the result at www.phys.washington.edu/users/vladi/deep.jpg (get the free, excellent Irfanview; in View set “Original size”, and use sliders on the margins to browse.) Notes: Some galaxies seen on the picture are more than 10 billion light years away. Recall that the Big bang happened about 14 billion years ago. Also recall Steven Weinberg (Physics Nobel Prize 1979) bestseller “The First Three Minutes”. If it sounds impressive to claim to be able to discuss what happened within three minutes after the Big Bang, consider that today, experiments are under way to measure what happened A TINY FRACTION OF A SECOND[sic] after the Big Bang.

  19. Hubble Ultra Deep Field

  20. Only one thing comes to mind: • Psalm 19.1 • [For the choir director; a psalm by David.] The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky displays what his hands have made.

  21. Another glimpse at Infinity • This time the Infinity of Complexity resulting from an absurdly simple formula: the Mandelbrot Set

  22. Complexity of the Mandelbrot set is reminiscent of the complexity of Bach fugues .

  23. Bach fugue in the “physicist’s piano roll” notation

  24. CONCLUSIONS • Physics, properly understood and taught, leads to a highly spiritual, idealistic, non-materialistic worldview that is: 1) Focused on “higher things than yourself” 2) Compatible with Faith 3) Emphasizing Doubt 4) Based on Humility and Awe

  25. Conclusions contd. • Physics is an excellent glue between different Science disciplines • and Music is a glue between Sciences and Humanities • This may make it possible to re-establish the original meaning of the concept of a “University” and of Science as “Natural Philosophy” – so that we deserve our PhD titles! • In human affairs, the basic problem we are facing is the Basic Problem: the gap between our science and our ethics.

  26. Science and Music, with Bach and Einstein (and others, of course) symbolize many aspects and dimensions of infinity and eternity, exuberance and humility, and wisdom and hope. E = mc2

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