The Music of the Spheres

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🗓️ 28 March 2013

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

From the physics of sound to the healing power of song, groove to the universal sway of music with guests Moby and Jonathan Coulton.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk, your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.6	Star Talk begins right now.
0:15.9	Welcome to Star Talk Radio, I'm your host, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and director
0:20.9	of New York City's Hayden Planetarium.
0:23.6	My co-host this week is not other than comedian Eugene Merriman, Eugene Welcome Back to
0:29.5	Star Talk Radio.
0:30.5	It's great to be back.
0:31.5	I love having you, because you see things that no one else sees in it.
0:35.3	Like into the future.
0:37.3	Yeah, just, it's like, you know, I never thought of it that way.
0:40.8	Yeah.
0:41.8	I'm about 45 minutes ahead of my time.
0:45.2	So tonight's episode is titled Music of the Spheres, the correspondence between music and
0:52.3	the universe.
0:53.3	It goes way back, way back to like the 1400s way backer than that.
0:59.1	Well, there are only what 2000 years old, maybe two and a half.
1:02.6	In your cosmology, for sure, might even less than like a fundamentalist.
1:08.7	So what I decided to do is bring some musicians around who are inspired by scientific technological
1:14.7	themes.
1:15.7	They're not even hard to find.
1:17.3	No.
1:18.3	Later, we will get to my interview with none other than Moby, what a following he has from
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