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Particle Pings: Sounds Of The Large Hadron Collider
Asquith, like many physicists, spends a lot of time thinking about particles like the elusive Higgs boson — the subatomic particle that scientists say endows everything in the universe with mass. Proving the existence of the Higgs boson is one of the main goals of the collider.
“You tend to personify things that you think about a lot,” she says. She gives particles personalities, colors and sounds. “I think electrons, perhaps, sound like a glockenspiel to me.”
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She wondered what would happen if she used music composition software to turn data from the collider into sound. So she fed in a sample of the LHC data — three columns of numbers.
“So we’ll map, for example, the first column of numbers, which may be a distance, to time,” Asquith says. “And we may map the second column of numbers to pitch, and the third, perhaps, to volume.”
What she got isn’t quite music, but sounds that are more out of this world — bells, beeps and clangs.
via NPR
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Particle Pings: Sounds Of The Large Hadron Collider
Asquith, like many physicists, spends a lot of time thinking about particles like the elusive Higgs boson — the subatomic particle that scientists say endows everything in the universe with mass. Proving the existence of the Higgs boson is one of the main goals of the collider.
“You tend to personify things that you think about a lot,” she says. She gives particles personalities, colors and sounds. “I think electrons, perhaps, sound like a glockenspiel to me.”
[…]
She wondered what would happen if she used music composition software to turn data from the collider into sound. So she fed in a sample of the LHC data — three columns of numbers.
“So we’ll map, for example, the first column of numbers, which may be a distance, to time,” Asquith says. “And we may map the second column of numbers to pitch, and the third, perhaps, to volume.”
What she got isn’t quite music, but sounds that are more out of this world — bells, beeps and clangs.
via NPR
audio clip of physics at the link
