PHENOMENOLOGICAL MECHANICS - OVERVIEW

Overview - physics, phenomenology, and music

That physics has encountered consciousness cannot be denied.

In a meeting with Albert Einstein, Bruce Rosenblum notes Einstein’s concern about the quantum
problem — the apparent connection between physics and what is essentially phenomenology.
He quotes Einstein’s words as below:

I have thought a hundred times as much about the quantum problem as I have about
general relativity theory.2

This dissertation is not about the quantum problem. Rather, it is the opposite.

Whereas quantum physics at its peripheral edge seeks to relate the laws of motion to concepts of phenomenological experience (observation) — the quantum problem — in this dissertation, I am seeking to describe a phenomenological experience by relating it to the laws of physics.

That phenomenological experience is the experience of vectorial (i.e., directional) motion in music.