Stephon Alexander Boeken

A cosmologist argues that physics must embrace the excluded, listen to the unheard, and be unafraid of being wrong. Years ago, cosmologist Stephon Alexander received life-changing advice: to discover real physics, he needed to stop memorizing and start taking risks. In Fear of a Black Universe, Alexander shows that great physics requires us to think outside the mainstream -- to improvise and rely on intuition. His approach leads him to three principles that shape all theories of the universe: the principle of invariance, the quantum principle, and the principle of emergence. Alexander uses them to explore some of physics' greatest mysteries, from what happened before the big bang to how the universe makes consciousness possible. Drawing on his experience as a Black physicist, he makes a powerful case for diversifying our scientific communities. Compelling and empowering, Fear of a Black Universe offers remarkable insight into the art of physics.

A spectacular musical and scientific journey from the Bronx to the cosmic horizon that reveals the astonishing links between jazz, science, Einstein, and Coltrane More than fifty years ago, John Coltrane drew the twelve musical notes in a circle and connected them by straight lines, forming a five-pointed star. Inspired by Einstein, Coltrane put physics and geometry at the core of his music. Physicist and jazz musician Stephon Alexander follows suit, using jazz to answer physics' most vexing questions about the past and future of the universe. Following the great minds that first drew the links between music and physics-a list including Pythagoras, Kepler, Newton, Einstein, and Rakim -- The Jazz of Physics reveals that the ancient poetic idea of the Music of the Spheres," taken seriously, clarifies confounding issues in physics. The Jazz of Physics will fascinate and inspire anyone interested in the mysteries of our universe, music, and life itself.

Żeby odkryć, czym naprawdę jest fizyka, trzeba podjąć ryzyko, przestać się bać nawet pozornie najbardziej szalonych pomysłów. W „Lęku przed czarnym Wszechświatem” Stephon Alexander dowodzi, że wielkie teorie zawsze rodzą się poza głównym nurtem, a ich rodzicami są intuicja i improwizacja. Podążając właśnie tym tropem, mierzy się z największymi wyzwaniami współczesnej fizyki – od pytania, co było przed Wielkim Wybuchem, poprzez ciemną materię i energię, po rozważanie, czym jest świadomość. Stephon Alexanderjest profesorem fizyki na Uniwersytecie Browna, uznanym saksofonistą jazzowym, a także autorem książki „Jazz i fizyka” (Prószyński i S-ka, 2015). Urodził się na Trynidadzie. W 2020 roku był prezesem National Society of Black Physicists.