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I like discovering and tracking all of the amazing developments by NASA and their many Space Telescope. Hubble broke open the Universe at Scale. Then the JWST has started us on rethinking everything we thought we knew about: Star Formation,, Galaxy Formation and even the beginning of the Universe.
And the new Vera Rubin has just started Mapping the entire Southern Sky, and already sent back stunning pictures from what is basically the world's largest digital camera lens! Something like 3.2 million pixels.
But we have other lesser known Space Telescopes like Chandra, that study X-Rays or other radiation sources, that the Nerds then turn into pretty pictures...or sounds...so we can grasp what is going on.
So the first thing that "sonification of waves" showed us, is that the Universe has a sound...a specific note. And that note is a "B Flat." But not one you will ever hear. Why? Because it is a "B Flat" 57 octaves below the lowest "B Flat" on a piano.
I think that is cool as heck. The Universe has a Bass Line!
It turns out, by listening to different sources of pressure waves (which have no sound in Space) and assigning them the correct frequencies...Scientists can spot stuff they missed in visual images.
Can you imagine listening to the sound of the Universe...as your day job?
It can tell them if a Star is about to explode, if there is a Black Hole burping nearby and stretching out the hot Plasma.
And the little Rover up there on Mars, caught the first sounds of "Wind" completely by accident, simply because the microphone was on, just when a dust devil hit the rover.
The first picture I posted, is the Chandra Sonification in false color. The second is the first image from the new Vera Rubin telescope. I swear when we look outside ourselves, the Universe is an amazing place.
And the new Vera Rubin has just started Mapping the entire Southern Sky, and already sent back stunning pictures from what is basically the world's largest digital camera lens! Something like 3.2 million pixels.
But we have other lesser known Space Telescopes like Chandra, that study X-Rays or other radiation sources, that the Nerds then turn into pretty pictures...or sounds...so we can grasp what is going on.
So the first thing that "sonification of waves" showed us, is that the Universe has a sound...a specific note. And that note is a "B Flat." But not one you will ever hear. Why? Because it is a "B Flat" 57 octaves below the lowest "B Flat" on a piano.
I think that is cool as heck. The Universe has a Bass Line!
It turns out, by listening to different sources of pressure waves (which have no sound in Space) and assigning them the correct frequencies...Scientists can spot stuff they missed in visual images.
Can you imagine listening to the sound of the Universe...as your day job?
It can tell them if a Star is about to explode, if there is a Black Hole burping nearby and stretching out the hot Plasma.
And the little Rover up there on Mars, caught the first sounds of "Wind" completely by accident, simply because the microphone was on, just when a dust devil hit the rover.
The first picture I posted, is the Chandra Sonification in false color. The second is the first image from the new Vera Rubin telescope. I swear when we look outside ourselves, the Universe is an amazing place.
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@kevin Hughes I imagine listening to the universe as my day job, as being scary. It is just too much like listening to Heaven, without trying to build the tower of Babel.
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SGT Kevin Hughes
The music of the spheres...is a real thing! Suppose god was a Bass, or maybe Barritone?
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PO3 Phyllis Maynard
SGT Kevin Hughes oh trust me, I do not disbelieve or discount any of it. I am just not brave in heart to witness it from this side of eternal life.
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SGT Kevin Hughes Check out http://apod.nasa.gov. It is updated every day.
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
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SGT Kevin Hughes
Aloha Major! I have that on my computer...and check it daily. I do two Science Podcasts a Day...and one "General Interest " one by Joe Scott. I swear, if this stuff had been available when I was ten years old, not only would I have ended up in a different career...I would have graduated college at ten too! LOL
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SGT Mary G.
SGT Kevin Hughes Interesting, and sad, too. I can truly relate to that! I was amazed listening to a radio program about atoms when I was six years old. First I had ever heard anything that I was truly interested in (other than having learned to read)! It was the most fascinating thing I had ever heard. An Atom, that everything is made of - wow! I could just see what was being described! Much more interesting than Dick and Jane, Sally, Puff, and Spot in our readers. lol
Never heard another word about atoms in school, until Chemistry in HS. It was interesting, however it did not tell me what I wanted to know about atoms, nor did physics, later. Gas laws, fluid dynamics, gravity that was far too vague without a solid definition was nothing I could argue with, and surely "electromagnetism" was a combination that needed to be reduced to individual aspects for better understanding. Clearly there were unfinished stories!
Finally started learning what I needed and wanted to know back at university after the Army. And over 10 years ago have been learning about research that was has been more or less newly "discovered" bit by bit - which rang true with me.
I've observed as new theoretical research has required years of peer review, before "peers" stop laughing and name calling the folks who are zeroing in on unity physics, until they too actually started looking at the work and have been able to comprehend and recreated it.
In my opinion it was obviously cutting-edge results from the get-go! When you know, you know. OF course I couldn't provide evidence of any of it but others have been able to - mostly mathematical and with new ways of described relationships among variables that are more accurate, more simple, and more elegant because of picking up where earlier folks were at a dead end, partly because of tech that was not available until much later.
The work does away with some place holder "mysteries" in physics that researchers have become very attached to even though the concepts have never been clearly defined - so it is difficult for people to steer a body of scientific knowledge beyond that point, except very slowly and very diplomatically when someone is fitting the pieces of the puzzle together in a different way that provides a clearer more universal picture.
Eventually it has started to result in folks saying "it is so obvious, why didn't we think of it in that way, sooner!", as it starts to become accepted as common knowledge. It's a great time to be alive to see the research coming to fruition.
Never heard another word about atoms in school, until Chemistry in HS. It was interesting, however it did not tell me what I wanted to know about atoms, nor did physics, later. Gas laws, fluid dynamics, gravity that was far too vague without a solid definition was nothing I could argue with, and surely "electromagnetism" was a combination that needed to be reduced to individual aspects for better understanding. Clearly there were unfinished stories!
Finally started learning what I needed and wanted to know back at university after the Army. And over 10 years ago have been learning about research that was has been more or less newly "discovered" bit by bit - which rang true with me.
I've observed as new theoretical research has required years of peer review, before "peers" stop laughing and name calling the folks who are zeroing in on unity physics, until they too actually started looking at the work and have been able to comprehend and recreated it.
In my opinion it was obviously cutting-edge results from the get-go! When you know, you know. OF course I couldn't provide evidence of any of it but others have been able to - mostly mathematical and with new ways of described relationships among variables that are more accurate, more simple, and more elegant because of picking up where earlier folks were at a dead end, partly because of tech that was not available until much later.
The work does away with some place holder "mysteries" in physics that researchers have become very attached to even though the concepts have never been clearly defined - so it is difficult for people to steer a body of scientific knowledge beyond that point, except very slowly and very diplomatically when someone is fitting the pieces of the puzzle together in a different way that provides a clearer more universal picture.
Eventually it has started to result in folks saying "it is so obvious, why didn't we think of it in that way, sooner!", as it starts to become accepted as common knowledge. It's a great time to be alive to see the research coming to fruition.
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