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36: Dark Matter, Black Matters and All That Jazz

2020/6/11
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Eric Weinstein: 本段落主要探讨了蓝调音乐的定义和起源,以及其在摇滚乐和R&B等音乐类型中的影响。他从个人经历出发,讲述了对蓝调音乐的发现过程,并指出蓝调音乐是黑人音乐,但其影响力已超越种族界限。他还探讨了白人音乐家对蓝调音乐的商业利用,以及不同种族对蓝调音乐的理解和态度差异。 此外,他还谈到了黑人文化中竞争和优胜劣汰的传统,以及他对黑人天才的敬佩和对黑人社会某些负面现象的批判。他认为,白人社会对黑人文化的态度在崇拜和妖魔化之间摇摆,缺乏真正的了解和友谊,解决种族问题需要真正的友谊和理解,而不是互相指责。 Stephon Alexander: Stephon Alexander主要从音乐和物理学的角度阐述了他的观点。在音乐方面,他分享了他与Ornette Coleman学习音乐的经历,并探讨了音乐与数学、物理学之间的联系,以及不同文化背景对音乐创作的影响。在物理学方面,他讨论了暗物质问题,并解释了暗物质的性质和研究方法。他还谈到了超对称理论以及大型强子对撞机的实验结果,并对理论物理学领域的现状和未来发展方向进行了展望。 此外,他还谈到了他在学术界遇到的种族歧视问题,以及他如何克服这些困难,并为年轻的黑人学生创造机会。他认为,多元化和包容性应该促进不同的视角,而不是降低标准,并呼吁理论物理学领域的革命,以打破现有权力结构,为更多不同的声音创造机会。

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Stephon Alexander is a first class jazz musician as well as a first rate physicist and a professor at Brown University. As the New President of the National Society of Black Physicists, Eric sits down with Stephon over a good deal of wine to discuss particles, politics, blackness and STEM, and other matters as they look back on the last decade of their friendship and their sprawling discussions across music, politics, mathematics, physics and beyond.  

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