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Band Uses Nuclear Isotopes To Make Music
Velcroman1 writes "Every second in your body, thousands of tiny isotopes are bursting with radioactive decay. And, all around you, imperceptible gamma rays explode in a brilliant but invisible lightshow. And they've just formed a live band. Yes, you read that correctly. But it's all for science: The Radioactive Orchestra 2.0 is part of a Swedish project to help us understand how low-energy radiation works, by showing the energy patterns of nuclear isotopes. Swedish musician Kristofer Hagbard conceived of the orchestra about a year ago and released an album last spring, but the new 2.0 version of 'the band' allows him to perform live in front of an audience. 'This can be looked at as a piano for high energy photons, so every detection gives us a note,' Hagbard said. 'The musical instrument is as good as the gamma spectrometer we are using.'"
All great bands are highly energetic, yet their halflives are so short.
A pair of Bose isotope isolating headphones
http://youtu.be/eaScyfSHc-Y
Should be "Band Uses Nuclear Isotopes to Make 'Music'."
I think this takes the concept of "heavy metal" music a little too far, don't you think?
High energy protons by Juno Reactor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeD-hpqaDfk
This kind of music encourages teens to enrich uranium. Just look a these lyrics.
"Topin' all night like a motherfucking physicist.
Now every third world arab nation in the world wanna get with this."
Topin' and Freakin'
They isolate any rogue gamma radiation or radioactive decay and line up the charges so I only receive the purest electrons...
Some of the more abstract tracks remind me a lot of music from the post WWII era! (Think forbidden planet, etc)
"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place." George Bernard Shaw
showing the energy patterns
A good musician can create something resembling music with just about anything. I remember Steve Allen doing it with a picture of birds sitting on power lines. But claiming there are "energy patterns" in the mist random process in nature is just, purring it kindly, B.S.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
And that's not all! Instead of being a way to classify atoms that have a given combination of protons and neutrons, isotopes are now the actual atoms themselves! This, friends, is truly the premium form of misused scientific terminology. Nothing like synecdoche to start off your morning. (And by synecdoche, I mean a cup of synecdoche, by which I mean...)
Anyway, all you've really proven is that the submission sucks, not that it reflects on the viewers. We're very proud of our complaints about poor editing, you know that.
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Just by smoking a cigarette, you inhale radioactive Polonium isotope 210.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=radioactive-smoke
From TFA link:
Tim Lundström, a physicist at a Swedish nuclear safety and training organization called KSU, told FoxNews.com that the radioactive orchestra is a good way to represent nuclear energy because it correlates so accurately to what we know about radioactive material. Lower energy beams produce colors like blue or green whereas higher level radioactive materials produce red tones.
Shouldn't red be lower energy etc? (I think this is cool stuff, just nit-picking with the physicist...)
sigs are for losers (except to point out that sigs are for losers)
To skip the talking and jump right to the "music", go to 11:30.
Take A Chance on Me
Set your phasers on "funky"!
It is low energy. At least, in the same way that your microwave oven is high energy.
Ezekiel 23:20
I have been scouring the internet and can't seem to find a detector that looks like the end of that device. Anyone know? I am sure it is outside my price range though.