For film aficionados, Walter Murch is legendary as the most admired sound editor in the world. Outside of the studio his passion is astrophysics, and in particular a theory regarding the patterns by which planets and moons array themselves in gravitational systems across the universe. In this book, Lawrence Weschler brings Murch's quest alive and, probes the impasse between conventional scientists and so-called outsider physicists—how do we know what we know and who gets to say?
Lawrence Weschler is a critic, journalist, and author who was a staff writer at the New Yorker for more than twenty years. His books have been shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize and have been awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has written for the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Nation, Salon, Truthdig, and Harper's, among others.
Walter Murch's career as a film sound editor includes Apocalypse Now, Godfather I, II, and III, The Conversation, and The English Patient. He has won three Academy Awards and has been described as "the most respected film editor and sound designer in the modern cinema." Much also pursues interests in the science of human perception, cosmology, and the history of science. Since 1995 he has been working on a reinterpretation of the Titius-Bode law of planetary spacing.
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