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...lofts of Manhattan's SoHo district and marched smartly uptown to the Metropolitan Opera House. Part rock, part raga, part dreamscape and part photo-realism, the minimalist ethos was distilled by composer Philip Glass and theater artist Robert Wilson in a 4 1/2-hour operatic extravaganza called Einstein on the Beach. The sung text consisted solely of numbers and the syllables do, re, mi, etc., while the music was built from a series of simple phrases, insistently repeated. The effect was either riveting or maddening, depending on one's point of view. But few could deny that a powerful new movement...
Glass went on to add Satyagraha (1980) and Akhnaten (1984) to Einstein to form a trilogy of music dramas. Last week in West Germany, Stuttgart's State Theater held what amounted to a minimalist retrospective by staging all three as a complete cycle for the first time. For Glass, for Stuttgart and for new music, the cycle made for three extraordinary evenings in the theater. It was also, in a curious way, a farewell to a style that has changed the face of modern opera...
...physics. The idea that computers are necessarily unconscious and without insight is largely based on his own experience in solving abstract puzzles. And it is true that these mental processes are not explained by existing laws of physics. The answers will come, says Penrose, with the merger of Einstein's theory of relativity, which concerns itself with gravity, and quantum theory, which governs the sub-microscopic world. These two theories are mathematically incompatible, and physicists are hard at work trying to create a quantum version of gravity...
When Albert Einstein unveiled his general theory of relativity in 1916, he predicted several phenomena that could be used to test its validity. Two of them -- that light is bent by gravity and that the orbit of Mercury wobbles in a certain way -- were confirmed within just a few years, convincing scientists that relativity was a revolutionary discovery, not just a mathematical curiosity. But Einstein thought another of his claims would never be proved. His theory predicted that fast-moving, massive objects emit gravity waves, small distortions moving through the fabric of space and time. Einstein said these waves would...
...scientists are suddenly optimistic about finding this missing link in Einstein's theory. A new facility called the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), planned for completion in 1995, could provide the first direct evidence that gravity waves exist. The $192 million project recently got a thumbs-up from President George Bush, who asked Congress for $47 million in start-up funding as part of his proposed 1991 budget. The search for a suitable site has already begun...