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| How I came to write this book | |
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| Guns in my face : music at my back | |
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| How it all began - back to 1951 | |
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| Fun in music and physics | |
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| What it's like to be a musician | |
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| What is music? | |
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| Songs of praise | |
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| Music as context | |
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| Music's dagger | |
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| Personal wars | |
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| Conductors, consistency, and change | |
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| The audience revolution | |
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| Beethoven, my hero | |
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| Beethoven's music | |
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| Fantastique : Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) | |
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| Einstein the person | |
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| Music and science | |
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| The quantum revolution | |
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| The science of music : the music of science | |
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| Superstring theory | |
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| Race toward the goal | |
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| Superstrings : my neighbor's territory | |
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| Up scale and down scale | |
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| Newton to Einstein to Bohr to Witten : still seeking a home-run century of revolutionary science | |
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| Physics and music : music waves | |
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| Proof? | |
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| Kepler's world harmony to the rescue | |
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| Appearance or essence? | |
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| Modern physics | |
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| How about us? : are we made of waves, particles, or music? | |
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| Quantum mysticism | |
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| What is real? | |
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| Extraterrestrial music | |
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| Are we all on the Newtonian path? | |
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| Creativity | |
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| Context and frames of reference | |
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| Is the universe really made of music? | |
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| Molecular friends and enemies | |
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| Alchemy : the "black magic" | |
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| How is a symphony orchestra like a hologram? | |
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| Peripheral imagery | |
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| The mystery of coincidence | |
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| Physicists and the music of brain waves | |
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| Mathematics : skip this chapter (but I urge the reader not to take my advice) | |
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| More connections | |
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| God, appearance, and reality | |
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| Absolute truth : design versus evolution | |
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| A crisis in physics | |
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| Social change according to Einstein | |
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| Music's dangers | |
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| Arts and science power | |
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| Eleanor Roosevelt and our nation's capital | |
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| Artistic freedom | |
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| Music : agent of social change | |
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| The crisis deepens | |
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| Our post-human future | |
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| Science and religion | |
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| God gets into the ring with causality | |
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| A free violinist and a free atom | |
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| Theory and reality : does the music work? | |
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| What is being done? | |
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| Science courts music's vibes | |
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| Music and culture | |
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| Language power | |
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| The unanswered question | |
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| Art power | |
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| The physics of music : the music of physics | |
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| A revolution in physics and music | |
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| Civilization and the good society | |
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| Is it too late? | |
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| Beginningism and endism | |
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| Doomsday : the end of the end | |
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| Music and physics to the rescue? | |