Does the chord sound kinda ... off to anyone else? I'm wondering whether this is because the note ratios aren't <i>quite</i> right to fall into a western twelve-tone scale, or whether it's just me!<p>Also - the headline isn't really very accurate. The puzzle (how the planets' resonance intervals could have remained stable over a long period of time) isn't actually fully understood; it's just that a paper has explained how it could stay stable for longer than previously thought. And the jazz musicians weren't even involved in that paper - they're only really involved in communicating why the problem is interesting.
While there is a puzzle as to why the orbits of the planets have the relationship they do and how stable it appears to be, in no way is it accurate to that the musicians have somehow "cracked" or explained it. They've taken the pattern and arranged music based on it. That is cool in and of itself, but this title reaches much too far.