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Stephon Alexander: Einstein, Coltrane… and the Universe

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

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Music Is an Analogy to the Structure of the Universe

Music is an analogy for then ers, which i think is one of your real contributions to thinking about the universe. You know, at first i thought it was just an exercise, a a fascination of mine. I love music, i love physics. Just figure out how these things are connected. And naturally, for systems as rich and as complicated as music is, or innor simple or ful, you're going to find these connections. One place where i found these connections have to do withi vibration and energy and and harmony and rhythm and improvisation. The idea is, to what extent ar physicists in the act of creation? Is that like a group in provesation?

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