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Big Bang Really a Big Hum

Posted by michael on from the letdown dept.

benna writes "The New Scientist reports, '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."

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  1. The "Big Bang" could not have made any sound by dido · · Score: 0, Redundant

    By definition sound is pressure variations in air. Obviously when the big bang happened 15-20 billion years ago there was no air, there was nothing at all besides the expanding universe, which certainly was not made of air. The ultradense, unbelievably hot primordial soup could not have made any sound as it expanded.

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  2. *OLD* news by 514x0r · · Score: 0, Redundant

    didn't the buddhists figure this our a few thousand years ago?

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  3. Re:Big Bang? by I_M_Noman · · Score: 0, Redundant
    You mean that the unvierse has _stuff_ in it? no, no, no... At the big bang it was all empty space on the backs of turtles. Below the turtles were more turtles. Eventually the unverse cooled down and expanded enough that the turtles got sucked in. The process of turtles falling into the universe caused matter to be created.
    Mod parent up, +5 Funny-as-hell.