The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe

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More than fifty years ago, John Coltrane drew the twelve musical notes in a circle and connected them by straight lines, forming a five-pointed star. Inspired by Einstein, Coltrane put physics and geometry at the core of his music. Now, physicist and jazz musician Stephon Alexander follows suit, using jazz to investigate physics. Following in the tradition of the great minds that first drew links between music and physics-Pythagoras, Kepler, Newton, Einstein, and Rakim-The Jazz of Physics visits both the ancient realm where music, physics, and the cosmos were one and Alexander's own life. For, in Alexander's attempts to reconcile and balance his own passion for music and physics, he uncovered a connection between the fundamental waves that make up sound and the fundamental waves that make up everything else-a connection which reveals that, when the ancient poetic idea of the music of the spheres is taken seriously, it can clarify some of physics' most vexing questions. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 00110394999

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Stephon Alexander is a professor of theoretical physics, the director for the Brown Theoretical Physics Center, and an established jazz musician. He is the author of Fear of a Black Universe, and his work has been featured by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and many other outlets.  He lives in Rhode Island.