In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called “Is the end in sight for theoretical physics?” Hawking, who later became my ...

In this example we considered the free response of a fixed-fixed string to a set of initial conditions that resulted from pulling the string at its midpoint and releasing it from rest. We found that ...

Back on 2012, Paul Vo and Moog revealed a working prototype of a device that took control of acoustic string vibrations to provide a harmonic soundscape behind whatever the player was picking. After ...

Rival Consoles is back with new track "Vibrations on a String", the second single and opening track from his forthcoming album Articulation. "Vibrations on a String" follows on from May's lead outing ...

Band Industries has announced the availability of Roadie 2, the second incarnation of its automatic guitar tuner. The device analyses the vibrations from a picked string to know its current pitch, ...

In my last post, Artificial Intelligence and the Shape of Reality, I jumped off the deep end and explored an idea that surprised even me as I wrote it—that the high-dimensional space in which large ...