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Published online 2 April 2009 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2009.212
Column: Muse
Physics by numbers
A suggestion that the discovery of physical laws can be automated raises questions about what it means to do science, says Philip Ball.
Two decades ago, computer scientist Kemal Ebcioğlu at IBM described a computer program that wrote music like Johann Sebastian Bach. Now I know what you're thinking: no one has ever written music like Bach.
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