Stephon Alexander: Physics Dreams
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2014
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Physicist Stephon Alexander feels overwhelmed until the father of quantum gravity himself helps him find inspiration in his subconscious. Stephon Alexander is the Ernest Everett Just 1907 Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Dartmouth College. Stephon was born in Trinidad and grew up in the Bronx, NY. He is a theoretical physicist specializing in the interface between cosmology, particle physics and quantum gravity (String Theory and Loop Quantum Gravity). He received his BSc (1993) from Haverford College and PhD (2000) from Brown University. He held postdoctoral fellowships at Imperial College, London and The Stanford University Linear Accelerator Center. Stephon is also a Jazz Saxophonist and Author, and will release his new album (in Colaboration with RIOUX) Here Comes Now in Aug, 2014. His upcoming Book will explore the secret link between music and cosmology.
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.8 | Is NYU a scientist the... |
| 0:06.6 | I felt... |
| 0:07.4 | I was so... |
| 0:08.7 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:09.6 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:12.8 | Because science was on my side. |
| 0:26.4 | Hey, everyone. I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, |
| 0:29.0 | where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:31.7 | This week's stories from Stefan Alexander. |
| 0:40.3 | The story was recorded in July 2014 at Oberon in Cambridge, Massachusetts. So I was born in Trinidad, and I grew up in the Bronx, New York. |
| 0:47.3 | And, you know, one of the good things about that move was the move away from voodoo. And you'll understand that in a second after you hear the rest of the story. |
| 0:58.0 | So one of the, my favorite, you know, when I was a kid, |
| 1:02.0 | my favorite hero was Iron Man. |
| 1:05.0 | And, you know, once I discovered that Tony Stark was a physicist, that was it. |
| 1:08.0 | I knew I wanted to become a physicist. |
| 1:10.0 | So fast forward, 30 years, I finished my PhD, |
| 1:16.1 | and my dream to become a physicist is realized. |
| 1:19.0 | And I get my first job as a professional physicist |
| 1:22.9 | at Imperial College in London. |
| 1:24.5 | So here I am in London, jump out the tube station at the Gloucester Road |
| 1:29.0 | station in South Kensington, and life can be more perfect. I walk outside and I see the |
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