Nobel Prize-winning and famously brainy physicist Albert Einstein once said, “If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.”
If you ever thought that perhaps there wasn’t a correlation between science and the world of music, think again. Not only are the two, like science and everything else, intrinsically linked, but science has taught us a hell of a lot about music.
To celebrate this beautiful marriage, we’ve compiled 15 of the weirdest and most interesting things that science has taught us about music, spanning topics from rock and racism, to sex and vinyl. Prepare to have your mind blown.
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