David Darling
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first heard Sep 2025
last heard 1 Aug
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Exactly, yeah.
Well if if you look at a a fellow such as Einstein, he was a very, very good amateur musician, violinist in particular, also played the piano and he I think he said that uh, you know, in another life he would have been a musician and and music was vitally important to him.
If he got stuck on something, you know, stuck on an aspect of his theory or the mathematics of it.
Uh general relativity, for example.
He would take himself into another room and he would just play.
And he would play uh composers that he believed were inspired, and by that I mean
Composers that believed that the music they composed was not coming from themselves, but was coming from outside.
They they act as like as aerials.
And I think a lot of musicians say this, you know, that they that they they just received a song or they received a piece of music.
They were just receptive to it, you know.
And Einstein was very much into this way of thinking.
So he would play pieces that he believed had been essentially given to these composers.
And and he and he's m said many, many times in his writings and his speeches that that's where he got inf uh inspiration for his science.
He would do this, he would play his music, and then he would sit down again, and very often there was the answer because he believed that the inspiration for his theories again came from outside.
It wasn't him thinking away and being a genius and inventing stuff.
He was just being responsible.
Receptive.
He was open enough to these uh ideas that were already out there in the cosmos, and he was able then to put them down on paper.
So he drew a direct parallel between musical inspiration and scientific inspiration, and he used music to drive his own progress.
And so did Max Planck as well.
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