Alexander, Stephon,

The jazz of physics : the secret link between music and the structure of the universe / Stephon Alexander. - viii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- 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 of 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 -- Epilogue.

9780465034994 (hardcover) 9780465098507 (ebook)

2015050500


Cosmology.
Universe.
Special relativity (Physics)
Space and time.
Musicology.
Music--Acoustics and physics.
Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

QB981 / .A54 2016

523.1