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."

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I have a CD of space recordings dated back to 1992. Granted it's out of print these days, but, there is still some info to be found on them.

From the liner notes:
These recordings are the most unique approach to deep level relaxation... hmmm.. let me type the better ones...

These recordings come from a variety of different sound environments:
1)From the intersection of the solar-wind with the planet's magneto-sphere (...)
2. From the magneto-sphere itself.
3. From the trapped radio waves bouncing between the planet and the inner surface of it's atmosphere.
4. Electromagnetic field noise within space itself.
5. From charged particle interactions of the planet, its moons, and the solar wind.
6. From charged particle emissions from the rings of certain planets.

OK, I guess that gets the point across. This stuff dated back a number of years.

FYI, for anyone that knows most of Brian Eno's recodings, this won't sound any different...