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The Jazz of Physics
- The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
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Summary
More than 50 years ago, John Coltrane drew the 12 musical notes in a circle and connected them with straight lines, forming a five-pointed star. Inspired by Einstein, Coltrane had put physics and geometry at the core of his music. Physicist and jazz musician Stephon Alexander returns the favor, using jazz to answer physics' most vexing questions about the past and future of the universe.
Following the great minds that first drew the links between music and physics - a list including Pythagoras, Kepler, Newton, Einstein, and Rakim - The Jazz of Physics revisits the ancient realm where music, physics, and the cosmos were one. 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.
Whether you are more familiar with Brian Greene or Brian Eno, John Coltrane or John Wheeler, the Five Percent Nation or why the universe is less than 5 percent visible, there is a new discovery every minute. Covering the entire history of the universe from its birth to its fate, its structure on the smallest and largest scales, The Jazz of Physics will fascinate and inspire anyone interested in the mysteries of our universe, music, and life itself.
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- Reviewer Tales
- 23-09-23
tenuous but solid
The link between jazz and physics wasn't as explicit as I thought from the title, but still a good book and of interest to those with relevant interests to this title
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- KWV
- 09-09-16
Extremely boring!
What would have made The Jazz of Physics better?
Not interesting
What could Stephon Alexander have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?
More physics and less comparison with music
Who might you have cast as narrator instead of Don Hagen?
Prof. Brian Cox
What character would you cut from The Jazz of Physics?
I would delete the entire book
Any additional comments?
I am sorry for being so tough, but I was interested in the science, in any knowledge it could provide, in the new things I could have learned from the book. Compared with music is completely metaphorical and perhaps a bit philosophical which are two things that I am not looking for in a book about physics. It was a bad way to mix both issues.
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