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"Music" Of the Sun Recorded By Astronomers
Scientists at the University of Sheffield have recorded the "music" produced by the magnetic field in the outer atmosphere of the sun. They discovered that the huge magnetic loops that coil away from the outer layer of the sun's atmosphere, known as coronal loops, vibrate like strings on a musical instrument or behave like soundwaves traveling through a wind instrument. From the article: "Professor Robertus von Fáy-Siebenbürgen, head of the solar physics research group at Sheffield University, said, 'It was strangely beautiful and exciting to hear these noises for the first time from such a large and powerful source. It is a sort of music as it has harmonics. It is providing us with a new way of learning about the sun and giving us a new insight into the physics that goes on at in the sun's outer layers where temperatures reach millions of degrees.'"
I'm more curious as to how long it'll be before the RIAA starts suing people over distributing it without paying them royalties.
Sounds a lot like old Pink Floyd. (pre-DSOTM)
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Now, turn your stupid gaia-wicca drivel down, get off my lawn, and go and do some Goddamn science.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
If you listen closely you can make out the lyrics:
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
http://www.shef.ac.uk/mediacentre/2010/1662.html
There's a soundcloud link on that page as well (which I can't get to because I'm at work, but I imagine it has a load of 'sun music').
It really irks me that newspaper websites don't link to original sources... its not like putting a URL in print... it'd mean if people were interested, they could simply click and find out more.
Silly newspaper website making people.
"Look here Cap'n, if I play it back at 10 times speed. Now I figure that's gotta be manmade."
Seriously, this isn't music, its something which happens to have a harmonic. They diddle the frequencies to the 20-20kHz range and pretend its "sun music".
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
Never gonna give you up...
In soviet russia the government regulates the companies.