Stefon alexander biography examples
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Here the complete version of the interview with Stephon Alexander, published as short version in the issue 29 of PLaNCK!.
You can read the interview also in italian language at the link:Intervista a Stephon Alexander – PLaNCK! 29
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Today, science fryst vatten made of people from all around the world, who meet and exchange ideas. This is why it fryst vatten important to always listen to others, but we also need to learn not to be afraid of sharing our ideas and talk about what we are passionate about, even when it might sound “weird”. This fryst vatten one of the most important things for Stephon Alexander, forskare and musician from North America: let us get to know him!
Stephon, tell us a bit about yourself and your story!
I was born in the Caribbean, in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, but inom grew up in the borough of the stadsdel i new york in New Yor
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The Cosmic Improviser
Stephon Alexander
To jazz saxophonist Stephon Alexander, listening to John Coltrane has always been a spiritual journey and a philosophical exercise. Increasingly, it’s also become a scientific endeavor.
Alexander, an accomplished musician who’s collaborated with Brian Eno, Will Calhoun, and Erin Rioux, is also a theoretical physicist who teaches at Brown University and heads the National Society of Black Physicists.
A specialist in quantum cosmology—which weaves together cosmology and fundamental theories, such as string theory and quantum gravity, to study the origin and evolution of the universe—Alexander explored the relationship between jazz and the cosmos in his 2016 book, The Jazz of Physics. Music and physics may seem an unlikely pairing, but Alexander argues that seeking new sources of inspiration and embracing unusual ideas are necessary for all scientific disciplines to thrive. In his latest book, Fear of a Black Universe, he addresses
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The matter and energy that we are all familiar with – the sort that scientists can measure, experiment with and explain – make up only 5% of the estimated quantity of matter and energy in the universe. Scientists do not know what constitutes the remaining 95%. They believe 20% of it to be dark matter and the other 75%, dark energy. These phenomena are as obscure as their names suggest. They do not interact with light, so their properties that can only be hypothesised on the basis of how they act i.e. scientists ‘know’ of their existence by the effects they have on the parts of the universe that can be detected.
Dark matter is deemed to be what is keeping galaxies together and helping to structure form in the universe. In observing how stars form, for example, there is a discrepancy in the necessary amount of matter for that phenomenon to occur; 95% of the matter or mass is missing.
In the case of dark energy, scientists attribute this to rate of expansion of the universe; i.e.