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The jazz of physics : the secret link between music and the structure of the universe / Stephon Alexander

Author
Alexander, Stephon
Published
New York : Basic Books, a member of Perseus Books Group, [2016]
Physical Description
1 online resource (viii, 254 pages) : illustrations
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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
"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.
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ISBN
9780465098507 (electronic bk.)
0465098509 (electronic bk.)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-241) and index.
Source of Acquisition
Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries); 2016
Endowment Note
Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)
View MARC record | catkey: 19169232