Title

The Sound of the Big Bang

Author

John Cramer Revision date

2003-11-10

Description

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.' Apparently the idea for the project came from an 11 year old.

Subjects

Arts and Humanities > Music Science > Physics > Astrophysics Wolfram Technology > Front End > Sound Keywords

Big Bang, sound

URL

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/30/1317249

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994320

http://www.npl.washington.edu/AV/

Downloads

WMAPdata.txt (2.1 KB) - Text file BB_Sound_2.nb (11.6 KB) - Mathematica Notebook BigBangSound_2.wav (781.3 KB) - Unknown MIME type BigBangSound_2.zip (192.2 KB) - Same as .wav file, zipped