Monday, February 21, 2011

Our Universe's Several Dowers

Today's reflection has to do with the many references to "heavenly music" and the "music of the spheres" in the works of Shakespeare.  Late the other night, I happened upon a BBC World Service report about the Kepler space telescope and its recent discovery of some 1200 new planets/planet-like structures.  The end of the report provided a real treat: the sound of a heartbeat of a star!  I'd never heard anything like it.  Wish I could have found the exact recording, but this clip (and some of the others available) should do it justice.  Sounds like Holst out there!  Pythagoras is beaming....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7TfNrIBKGI

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