The Nebula stage, "where new stars are born", is the arena for up-and-coming musicians; the Roots stage, situated in nearby woodland, covers folky and acoustic acts; and the Lovell stage, directly behind the famous telescope, will host the headliners, all of whom have a certain scientific flavour.
According to scientific studies into flavour, smell and colour can influence our interpretation of taste, even if there's no difference between the substances.
Ajinomoto, a firm founded in 1909 to make and sell MSG, is now a huge flavourings business.This week, a set of papers in Flavour, a scientific journal, outlines the frontiers of umami and kokumi research.
In 1908, Professor Kikunae Ikeda of the University of Tokyo unlocked the scientific secret of a flavour he named "umami".
The staff, who are forced to wear horrible short sleeved school shirts, spend their long days wrestling with the organisation of a store that stocks both scientific calculators and paprika flavour Walker's Max crisps.
Nevertheless, there is some bestiary flavour – half-scientific, half-imaginative – in the tone of Hughes's voice.
The idea is that each beer has a distinct genome, which they call "the beer's DNA", that these bods can plot on a big family tree of beer to provide a scientific categorisation of beer flavours.
Mr Blumenthal, whose scientific approach to creating new flavours has seen him dubbed the guru of "molecular gastronomy", said the Top 50 was a true reflection of an "incredibly exciting" UK restaurant scene.
He says Dinner won't be like the Fat Duck, his celebrated restaurant, where he applies scientific techniques and pairs unusual flavours and textures, arriving at headline-grabbing dishes such as snail porridge - and a warm welcome from diners, chefs and food writers.
Interestingly, chocolate flavour is challenging to measure in a scientific way as it is made up of hundreds of chemical compounds.
Academic economics, in any flavour or school of thought, is not characterised by steady scientific progress just because economists wish it were so.
