{"id":11204,"date":"2013-05-28T09:17:09","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T16:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/?p=11204"},"modified":"2013-05-28T09:17:09","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T16:17:09","slug":"the-universe-on-a-stratocaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/28\/the-universe-on-a-stratocaster\/","title":{"rendered":"The Universe on a Stratocaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are those who believe that music brings meaning to an uncaring universe. It&#8217;s only natural, then, to try to capture the essence of reality on a musical instrument. <\/p>\n<p>Sadly, the true essence of reality remains unknown. But we are able to sum up the physics underlying the world of everyday experience in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/04\/the-world-of-everyday-experience-in-one-equation\/\">a single equation<\/a>. So mathematician <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.toronto.edu\/nhoell\/\">Nicholas Hoell<\/a> did the obvious thing &#8212; or at least, what should be obvious &#8212; and painted that equation on his Stratocaster. (Click to embiggen.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Guitar_pic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Guitar_pic-1024x764.jpg\" alt=\"Guitar_pic\" width=\"640\" height=\"477\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-11205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Guitar_pic-1024x764.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Guitar_pic-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note the depiction of a few complex arrangements of the underlying reductionistic constituents, providing a nod to the importance of emergent phenomena in encompassing a complete view of the world.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure that the perfect solo, played on this guitar, would reveal how to quantize gravity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are those who believe that music brings meaning to an uncaring universe. It&#8217;s only natural, then, to try to capture the essence of reality on a musical instrument. Sadly, the true essence of reality remains unknown. But we are able to sum up the physics underlying the world of everyday experience in a single [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11207,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11204\/revisions\/11207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}