Can you write a song about physics that is actually a good song? Not a joke song or a spoof song; not a song whose only purpose is to teach you the parts of an equation. A song that is on its own simply a good song, but that is also somehow about physics.
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To do that you have to understand at a deep, intuitive level what physics tells us about our world. And then you have to translate that into music.
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I know of one person who can do it. Sabine Hossenfelder has just released two new songs, "Catching Light" and "Schrödinger's Cat". To go with the songs, there are two excellent videos that include short explainers of the physics from Sabine. I am happy to say the videos were funded by an FQXi mini-grant.
As well as a songwriter and videomaker, Sabine is a physics research fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, where her research is supported in part by an FQXi grant for her project on spacetime defects.
There is more information about the videos on Sabine's blog.
(And for an earlier song, which won "best/worst earworm" in our FQXi video contest, watch "I saw the future".)