Re: Article and Media] Big Bang sounded like a deep hum

Fresh from sci.physics....

Apparently, the Big Bang sounded like Thomas Koner...

Robert Karl Stonjek wrote:

> Big Bang sounded like a deep hum
>
> 10:09 30 October 03
>
> The Big Bang sounded more like a deep hum than a bang, according to an
> analysis of the radiation left over from the cataclysm.
>
> Physicist John Cramer of the University of Washington in Seattle has
> created audio files of the event which can be played on a PC. "The sound
> is rather like a large jet plane flying 100 feet above your house in the
> middle of the night," he says.
>
> Giant sound waves propagated through the blazing hot matter that filled
> the Universe shortly after the Big Bang. These squeezed and stretched
> matter, heating the compressed regions and cooling the rarefied ones.
>
> Even though the Universe has been expanding and cooling ever since, the
> sound waves have left their imprint as temperature variations on the
> afterglow of the big bang fireball, the so-called cosmic microwave
> background.
>
> Read the rest at NewScientist
> http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994320
>
> Media file
> http://www.npl.washington.edu/AV/BigBangSound_2.wav
>
> Comment:
> Religions need music, hymns, maybe some tambourine playing.  Now the Big
> Bang has the music - how long will it be before Big Bang cosmologists
> shave their heads and move into monasteries?
>
> --
> Kind Regards,
> Robert Karl Stonjek.