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Riffing on the universe

19 May 2016
Taken from the May 2016 issue of Physics World

Trevor Cox reviews The Jazz of Physics: the Secret Link between Music and the Structure of the Universe by Stephon Alexander

Purple silhouette of a person playing a trumpet and musical notes emerging from it, superimposed on a background of a starry sky
Universal Themes Stephon Alexander’s new book draws parallels between physics and jazz. (Courtesy: iStock/angelinast/Ping Chau Chan)
Music and physics might seem like polar opposites, one having great emotional potency and the other

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Trevor Cox is professor of acoustic engineering at the University of Salford, UK, and author of Sonic Wonderland, e-mail t.j.cox@salford.ac.uk
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