Listening To the Big Bang – In High Fidelity

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Listening To the Big Bang – In High Fidelity

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday April 4, 2013 @10:22PM from the big-bang-music dept.

First time accepted submitter vinces99 writes "A decade ago, spurred by a question for a fifth-grade science project, University of Washington physicist John Cramer devised an audio recreation of the Big Bang that started our universe nearly 14 billion years ago. Now, armed with more sophisticated data from a satellite mission observing the cosmic microwave background – a faint glow in the universe that acts as sort of a fossilized fingerprint of the Big Bang – Cramer has produced new recordings that fill in higher frequencies to create a fuller and richer sound."

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thanks, guys... by Tastecicles · 2013-04-04 22:24 · Score: 2

...you didn't warn me, now my ears are bleeding.

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Ummmm by Impy+the+Impiuos+Imp · 2013-04-04 22:26 · Score: 4, Funny

I hate that Sheldon guy, who the hell wants to hear his voice better?

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All together now... by maroberts · 2013-04-04 22:48 · Score: 3, Funny

Our whole universe was in a hot dense state, Then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started Wait....

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Re:paid for a pip squeek ? by flyneye · 2013-04-04 23:16 · Score: 2

They will definitely be backing tracks to some future recordings of mine.
Nice of them to open the permissions.

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Re:Big Banng by chill · 2013-04-04 23:31 · Score: 2

Honestly? The Dolby THX sound was the first thing I thought of.

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Recordings? by opusman · 2013-04-04 23:42 · Score: 3, Insightful

Are you sure that's the right term? Somehow I doubt it's actually a recording :)
1. Re:Recordings? by AlecC · 2013-04-05 01:06 · Score: 2
  
  Why not? The energy was extracted from the environment and converted into a sound file playable on your computer. It may have been post-processed a bit, but it is a record of fluctuations created by the Bug Bang.
  
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Disney now owns the Universe b/c of you. by Anonymous Coward · 2013-04-04 23:44 · Score: 2, Funny

Honestly? The Dolby THX sound was the first thing I thought of.
Oh Great! Well, Disney bought LucasArts which owned THX, so now Disney is going to claim Copyright ownership of the Universe!
And you - YOU - had to post your comment giving them prior art or something!
Great! Just great!
Re:idiotic artisti bullshit by femtobyte · 2013-04-05 03:13 · Score: 2

Why are you arguing using numbers for shockwave formation in atmospheric-pressure air? Do you not realize that sound can propagate in a variety of media, with different speeds (thus different thresholds for shockwave generation), and that the early universe wasn't filled with atmospheric-pressure air? Come back when you've re-calculated shockwave conditions in the state of matter prior to recombination; and if you can't do that, then don't flaunt your ignorance by spouting wholly irrelevant numbers.