NEWTON PREDICTED IT.
Sir,-Your writer in "Radio Viewsreel" continues to amaze us all. His cunningly constructed analogy between Newton’s Second Law of Thermodyriamics and the increase in unclassified programmes suggests that some . music critic (equally well read in ‘science) may be able to detect even more suggestive links between science and music. Two examples occurred to me which may be of interest. Aristotle’s Quantum Theory has an obvious parallel in the use of the semitone as a unit of pitch. Would Bach’s introduction of quarter tones necessitate halving the constant, h? Again, Bechstein’s famous theory of relativity which denies the validity of anything involving the concept of absolute rest surely finds its musical analogue in Mozart’s atonal works.
R.O.
D.
(Dunedin).
(Our correspondent has omitted to mention the even more fundamental case of the Magdeburg Concertos (Bach-Guericke) which first demonstrated the Parallelogram of Horses, or sixty-four-fold leg-pull,-Ed.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 351, 15 March 1946, Page 5
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147NEWTON PREDICTED IT. New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 351, 15 March 1946, Page 5
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