{"id":19040,"date":"2016-12-27T15:53:24","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T21:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=19040"},"modified":"2017-01-31T09:20:57","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T15:20:57","slug":"new-stuff-tuesday-december-27-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/19040","title":{"rendered":"New Stuff Tuesday &#8211; December 27, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/jazzofphysics.jpg\" height=\"300px\" alt=\"The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link between Music and the Structure of the Universe book cover\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Jazz of Physics: <\/strong><br \/>\nThe Secret Link between Music and the Structure of the Universe<br \/>\nby Stephon Alexander<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" title=\"call number\" href=\"http:\/\/uw-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com\/WW:WW_VOY:UWI71386286590002121\">QB981 .A54 2016<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>New Arrivals<\/strong>, 2nd floor<\/p>\n<p>John Coltrane combined physics and geometry with music over 50 years ago and now Stephon Alexander is doing the same with physics and jazz. The melding of these spheres actually goes back as far as Pythagoras and includes other brilliant scientists such as Albert Einstein, all inspirations to Alexander. Jazz musician and theoretical physicist Alexander uses his keen abilities to improvise and explore to discover the connection between the fundamental waves of sound and those of everything else. He uses jazz as an analogy when explaining the process of discovery in theoretical physics research, from the tiny quantum world to our much larger universe. The book explores modern physics, relativistic cosmology, and music theory through the eye of an expert, but in the language of the common person. There are some, perhaps complex, equations, but in the words of the author, \u201cI encourage you to skip [them] and continue reading\u201d if you don\u2019t get them.<\/p>\n<p>Watch Stephon Alexander speak about The Jazz of Physics on TEDx Talks, TEDxSanDiego (16:35)<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Jazz of Physics | Stephon Alexander | TEDxSanDiego\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v9_ZzY99-6U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Coltrane combined physics and geometry with music over 50 years ago and now Stephon Alexander is doing the same with physics and jazz.  <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/19040\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[3062,132,229],"class_list":["post-19040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-stuff-tuesdays","tag-jazz","tag-music","tag-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19040"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19047,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19040\/revisions\/19047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}