Can MT detract from or ruin the experience of music?
No, far from it. However, a general negativity toward allying knowledge with experience can. This is commonly known as a “closed mind”. In the same sense, a knowledge of astronomy cannot make one unappreciative of the experience of the heavens. In fact, it can only add to or enhance the experience. It cannot subtract from it. The sister of the great physicist Richard Feinman related, “Anyone can look up at the stars and appreciate the beauty of the heavens. Anyone can see the points of light on the celestial sphere and appreciate the beauty of the night sky. But astronomers see more than pretty points of light — they see enormous distances, a vast time machine, immense suns, glowing nuclear furnaces and profound cold, [gravity so intense that it squeezes time and space out of existence, stars so dense that a teaspoon of their matter weighs as much as the entire earth, etc]. So, I cannot help but think that when an astronomer looks up at the stars, he sees more than an ordinary person.
