A theoretical physicist and jazz musician combines his two loves to present a new theory of the universe: sound as the link between Einstein's relativity with quantum mechanics.

Giant steps -- Lessons from Leon -- All rivers lead to cosmic structure -- Beauty on trial -- Pythagorean dream -- Eno, the sound cosmologist -- Thriving on a riff -- The ubiquity of vibration -- The defiant physicists -- The space we live in -- Sonic black hole -- The harmony of cosmic structure -- A journey into Mark Turner's quantum brain -- Feynman's jazz pattern -- Cosmic resonance -- The beauty of noise -- The musical universe -- Interstellar space.