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Alexander, Stephon.
Subjects
Cosmology.
Special relativity (Physics)
Space and time.
Musicology.
Music -- Acoustics and physics.
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Universe.
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Alexander, Stephon.
Cosmology.
Special relativity (Physics)
Space and time.
Musicology.
Music -- Acoustics and physics.
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Universe.
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The
jazz
of
physics
: the
secret
link
between
music
and the
structure
of the
universe
/ Stephon Alexander.
by
Alexander, Stephon.
Basic Books, a member of Perseus Books Group, [2016]
Call #:
523.1 A378j
Subjects
Cosmology.
Special relativity (
Physics
)
Space and time.
Musicology.
Music
-- Acoustics and
physics
.
Music
-- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Universe
.
ISBN:
9780465034994 (hc.)
Description:
viii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Giant Steps -- Lessons from Leon -- All Rivers Lead to Cosmic
Structure
-- Beauty on Trial -- Pythagorean Dream -- Eno, the Sound Cosmologist -- Thriving on a Riff -- The Ubiquity Vibration -- The Defiant Physicists -- The Space We Live In -- Sonic Black Hole -- The Harmony of Cosmic
Structure
-- A Journey into Mark Turner's Quantum Brain -- Feynman's
Jazz
Pattern -- Cosmic Resonance -- The Beauty of Noise -- The Musical
Universe
-- Interstellar Space.
Summary:
Physicist and
jazz
musician Stephon Alexander uses
jazz
to answer
physics
' most vexing questions about the past and future of the
universe
. This cosmological journey accompanies Alexander's own tale of struggling to reconcile his passion for
music
and
physics
, from taking
music
lessons as a boy in the Bronx to studying theoretical
physics
at Imperial College, London's inner sanctum of string theory. Playing the saxophone and improvising with equations, Alexander uncovered the connection
between
the fundamental waves that make up sound and the fundamental waves that make up everything else. As he reveals, the ancient poetic idea of the "
music
of the spheres," taken seriously, clarifies confounding issues in
physics
. Stephon Alexander is a professor of
Physics
at Brown University. He is also a
jazz
musician and recently finished recording his first electronic
jazz
album with Erin Rioux. Alexander lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
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