Poet Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan joins physicist Prof. James Millen on a journey of exploration into the quantum world. “Art and science are just different languages trying to understand the what, the why, and the how in everything around us."
The James Webb Telescope has revealed the earliest stages of the story of galaxy formation – in stunning detail. It’s gone all the way back to the first few hundred million years after the Big Bang itself. Dr Adam Carnall of Edinburgh University’s Institute for Astronomy shows images of stars and galaxies formed over 13 billion years ago and tells the story of their detection – and of more mysteries ahead.
There are numbers beneath the surface in music: you can count notes, bars, words and letters of accompanying text …. So, says musicologist and composer Dr John Purser, music offers a rich potential for composers interested in patterns of numbers. He provides examples: the late 13th-century Inchcolm Antiphoner, the 16th-century Carver Choirbook, and William Wallace’s Creation Symphony in the late 19th-century. He shows number patterns in music and words, illustrated too by some of his own work, played by Iain Campbell (piano) and Elizabeth Sullivan (violin).
