The Pythagoras Lectures: Series 1, Episode 1

July 4 2011 by Rhys Phillips in Podcasts |No Comments

Rock Guitar in Eleven Dimensions
 Speaker: Dr. Mark Lewney
What causes the revolutionary, history-changing sound of rock guitar, and how does it help us to understand the nature of the stuff we’re made of? Famelab winner Mark Lewney explains the physics of rock using riffs from Vivaldi to AC/DC, explains the secret of the Stradivarius, and shows how string vibrations might lie at the heart of the Big Questions about the universe.

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