{"id":2563,"date":"2017-05-24T22:37:53","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T21:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theculture.net\/radio\/?p=2563"},"modified":"2023-05-10T01:46:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T00:46:12","slug":"coltrane-einstein-and-the-bomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theculture.net\/radio\/coltrane-einstein-and-the-bomb\/","title":{"rendered":"Coltrane, Einstein, and the Bomb"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Coltrane, Einstein, and the Bomb\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2017-05-24T22:37:53+01:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Dartmouth professor and astrophysicist Stephon Alexander describes his jazz epiphany as occasioned by a complex diagram Coltrane gave legendary jazz musician and University of Massachusetts professor Yusef Lateef in 1967. \u201cI thought the diagram was r...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/isotopica\/www.theculture.net\/radio\/wp-content\/uploads\/podcasts2016\/isotopica-25-april-2016-high-pitched-jazz-physics-pod.mp3\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"99.9\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3634\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/isotopica\/www.theculture.net\/radio\/wp-content\/uploads\/podcasts2016\/isotopica-25-april-2016-high-pitched-jazz-physics-pod.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('3634','https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/isotopica\/www.theculture.net\/radio\/wp-content\/uploads\/podcasts2016\/isotopica-25-april-2016-high-pitched-jazz-physics-pod.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theculture.net\/radio\/wp-content\/uploads\/powerpress\/playsimp2long5.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><p>Dartmouth professor and astrophysicist Stephon Alexander describes his jazz epiphany as occasioned by a complex diagram Coltrane gave legendary jazz musician and University of Massachusetts professor Yusef Lateef in 1967. \u201cI thought the diagram was related to another and seemingly unrelated field of study\u2014quantum gravity,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he writes in a Business Insider essay on his discovery, \u201cWhat I had realized\u2026 was that the same geometric principle that motivated Einstein\u2019s theory was reflected in Coltrane\u2019s diagram.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <a href=\"https:\/\/about.me\/jonesjoshua\">joshua jones<\/a> openculture.org<\/p>\n<p>in this episode, we bare this beautiful confluence\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0in mind<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2607\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2607\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theculture.net\/radio\/coltrane-einstein-and-the-bomb\/stefan_002-edit-2\/#main\" rel=\"attachment 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sight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dartmouth professor and astrophysicist Stephon Alexander describes his jazz epiphany as occasioned by a complex diagram Coltrane gave legendary jazz musician and University of Massachusetts professor Yusef Lateef in 1967. \u201cI thought the diagram was related to another and seemingly&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theculture.net\/radio\/coltrane-einstein-and-the-bomb\/\">Tune in to this episode<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Coltrane, Einstein, and the 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