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Listen To The Universe On Your iPod
ptorrone writes "The New York Times had a great story about Dr. Mark Whittle, a professor of astronomy at the University of Virginia who has taken the cosmic background radiation of the universe and made a series of sounds. The folks over at Engadget made the sounds available in MP3s so you can listen to them on your computer, iPod or whatever. Also, If you'd like to read more about Dr. Mark Whittle's work visit his site, there are a lot of presentations and information regarding Big Bang Acoustics."
Frankly your whining is tiring. The original article carries an almost identical headline.
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The original article carries an almost identical headline, the /. editors have just taken it from there. RTFA? Try RTF Headline.
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The entire book is excellent, and I can't recommend it strongly enough.
There are some other good soundclips on the Sounds of Jupiter site as well; e.g., Jupiter's lightning and the "bow shock."
Try clicking the friendly links in the submission. The headline on the linked story is the same (well, almost)
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I don't understand why the headline had to read iPod instead of mp3. Why not just say you can listen to the mp3? I think more people listen to mp3's from other players (be it computer or a Creative product, etc...) than the iPod.
Perhaps I'm just silly, but I don't think of the iPod as soon as I find an mp3 or a new sound.
This is really old news, folks. Fiorella Terenzi has been making sounds out of "cosmic noise" for years.
www.fiorella.com
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Um, you guys did go to the linked engadget site before posting didn't you?
The title of THEIR article is:
"Listen to the sound of the Universe on your iPod"
and there's even a picture of an iPod there.
Now everyone just take a deep breath, Slashdot and Apple are not out to get you.
A set of CDs called "Symphonies of the Planets" which are recordings of magnetic flux in deep space as recorded by voyager probes. I had the fortune to pick up one of the cds on a whim at a Tower Records in about 1992. The one I have is *EXTREMELY* cool and my favorite thing to listen to if I am having trouble sleeping.
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I think these are all files for individual orbits, while the ocean sound I generated came from the addition of thousands of individual binaries. But of the ones given on that page, I think the eccentric orbits are the most interesting (i.e., they generate the most complicated and varied waveforms).
The ones I like best are called (humorously) zoom-whirl orbits, because the inspiraling mass makes one or two large orbits [low-frequency]followed by a series of very fast, close orbits [high-frequency] - the result is a kind of funny popping sound superimposed on the more-slowly varying sound. There are more details in this paper by Scott Hughes. (See page 37 for a graph of a zoom-whirl orbit.)
Unfortunately I don't have sound on this computer to double-check which of the sound files on his page are the ones I'm thinking of, but try the ones under "Generic Kerr Inspirals, Kludgy Results" with e=0.95 or 0.7 for starters.