I followed all the links in this article and watched Alexander's TEDx talk. The only "link" I could find is a rather loose one, mentioned at the end of the TEDx

I followed all the links in this article and watched Alexander's TEDx talk. The only "link" I could find is a rather loose one, mentioned at the end of the TEDx talk[1]. A cyclic ('big bounce') cosmology is proposed as a solution to the fine-tuning problem, and this is likened to a jazz soloist trying different things over a repeated chord progression. The associated paper[2] doesn't mention jazz or music. Perhaps a tighter crossover between physics and music lies in the use of Grassmann algebra to study both scattering amplitudes[3] and musical scales[4][5]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9_ZzY99-6U&t=14m5s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9_ZzY99-6U&t=14m5s [2] http://arxiv.org/pdf/1507.00727.pdf http://arxiv.org/pdf/1507.00727.pdf [3] https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.5605 https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.5605 [4] http://xenharmonic.wikispaces.com/Regular+temperament http://xenharmonic.wikispaces.com/Regular+temperament [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Ward_Smith#Music_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Ward_Smith#Music_theory