This is a matrix in the original sense of "source". It is a "small-world" network, meaning that the nodes (people) inside it are — mirroring human society — within a few steps of everybody else inside it. The matrix was built to allow regional Brazilian musicians to be discoverable steps away from everybody else in the arts world, and by logical necessity this m.o. requires not only that the great Brazilians be matrixed, but so far as possible, all working artists in our time. Ergo:
THIS MATRIX, THOUGH BRAZIL-BORN, IS UNIVERSAL
This Sabine Hossenfelder matrix node is steps away from the entire planet by the well-known small-world ("6 degrees") phenomenon dictating that in human society you yourself are within several degrees of Sabine Hossenfelder.
1 DEGREE FORWARD: Sabine Hossenfelder (node) ROUTES TO THESE ARTIST NODES
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CURATION STATUS
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Who & Where
- Name: Sabine Hossenfelder
- City/Place: Frankfurt
- Country: Germany
Life & Work
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Bio:
Sabine Hossenfelder is a songwriting singer who happens to also be a theoretical physicist (some might turn that phrase around).
In addition to her academic papers she is author of Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray, written for the general public.
Reflecting her vocation and avocation, she has two YouTube channels, one devoted to her music and one devoted to explanations of the physical universe in terms accessible to non-experts.
Media & Markets
- ▶ Book Purchases: http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Math-Beauty-Physics-Astray/dp/0465094252
- ▶ Twitter: skdh
- ▶ Blog: http://backreaction.blogspot.com
- ▶ YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPtRwW9i43BXbCRQa7BJaiA
- ▶ YouTube Channel 2: http://www.youtube.com/user/peppermint78
My Writing
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Publications:
LOST IN MATH: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
In this "provocative" book (New York Times), a contrarian physicist argues that her field's modern obsession with beauty has given us wonderful math but bad science.
Whether pondering black holes or predicting discoveries at CERN, physicists believe the best theories are beautiful, natural, and elegant, and this standard separates popular theories from disposable ones. This is why, Sabine Hossenfelder argues, we have not seen a major breakthrough in the foundations of physics for more than four decades.
The belief in beauty has become so dogmatic that it now conflicts with scientific objectivity: observation has been unable to confirm mindboggling theories, like supersymmetry or grand unification, invented by physicists based on aesthetic criteria. Worse, these "too good to not be true" theories are actually untestable and they have left the field in a cul-de-sac. To escape, physicists must rethink their methods. Only by embracing reality as it is can science discover the truth.
Clips (more may be added)
THE MATRIX WAS BUILT HERE, inspired in (the kabbalah-inspired fiction of) Borges' El Aleph, that in the pillar in Cairo's Mosque of Amr, where the universe in its entirety throughout all time is perceivable as an infinite hum from deep within the stone... The Brazilian "aleph" doesn't hum...it sings!
Sprawled across broad equatorial latitudes
Stoked and steamed and sensual in the widest sense of the word
Limned in prosody and cadenced song
brəˈzɪl / from "brasa" / Latin for "ember"
w/ David Dye for U.S. National Public Radio
Given the immense untapped power of the small-world phenomenon, from Brazilians the matrix was expanded to include nodes per jazz artists, given jazz's common roots with Brazilian music (nodes based in publicly available information; some artists we informed — Bob Mintzer, Kamasi Washington, David "Fuse" Fiuczynski, Vijay Iyer, Greg Osby — and got thumbs up, others we'll get to), and moved on from there. Artists/academics/"creative people" are welcome to create their own nodes and curate (connect to other artist nodes, so that others may follow). BTW, our logo is a cortador de cana, cane cutter. It was designed by Walter Mariano, professor of design at the Federal University of Bahia to reflect the origins of the music the shop specializes in.
MUCH MORE on all of this in the window below (which, if you are logged in, will instead contain instructions on recommending), and in the window within that window (which includes a "radio" called by The Guardian one of "10 of the best music radio stations around the world"):
