The jazz of physics
Subtitle: the secret link between music and the structure of the universe
By: Stephon Alexander
Publisher: Basic Books, a member of Perseus Books Group
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780465034994; 9780465098507
Subjects: Music; Acoustics and physics; Philosophy and aesthetics; Musicology; Special relativity (Physics); Space and time; Cosmology
Description: "A theoretical physicist and jazz musician combines his two loves to present a new theory of the universe: sound as the link between Einstein's relativity with quantum mechanics,"--Amazon.com.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Giant Steps; title: Lessons from Leon; title: All Rivers Lead to Cosmic Structure; title: Beauty on Trial; title: Pythagorean Dream; title: Eno, the Sound Cosmologist; title: Thriving on a Riff; title: The Ubiquity Vibration; title: The Defiant Physicists; title: The Space We Live In; title: Sonic Black Hole; title: The Harmony of Cosmic Structure; title: A Journey into Mark Turner's Quantum Brain; title: Feynman's Jazz Pattern; title: Cosmic Resonance; title: The Beauty of Noise; title: The Musical Universe; title: Interstellar Space.