from The Wall Street Journal
Friday, February 12, 2016
Clash of black holes helps team confirm unproven portion
of relativity theory
by Robert Lee Hotz
“After decades of searching, scientists on Thursday announced they have directly detected gravitational waves for the first time, caused by a cosmic clash of black holes so violent, its shock waves rippled the ethereal fabric of space and time across a billion light years of distance… As they travel, gravitational waves stretch and compress space, encoding the physics of the event that produced them. They can be translated into sounds.
‘Not only can we explore the universe with neutrinos and cosmic rays, see it with light across a huge range of wavelengths, but we can now hear it, too, with gravitational waves,’ said Caltech physicist Chiara M. F. Mingarelli, who studies them. ‘Imagine hearing the universe for the first time.’”
Not mentioned in the article is the pitch at which the universe vibrates, so I held my Korg chromatic tuner up to a speaker as the tone played on the BBC’s report of the discovery. The pitch registered as an “A”.
Greek philosopher Pythagoras (c. 570 – c. 495 BCE) proposed that the Sun, the Moon, and the planets in our solar system all emit their own unique “hum” or orbital resonance in relation to each other, creating mathematical ratios that correlate to musical intervals. Pythagoras called it Musica Universalis, or the Music of the Spheres. Credit is due for his insight, and to the many unconventional thinkers/experimenters interested in visualizing and audiating waveforms of all types.
Friday, February 12, 2016
Clash of black holes helps team confirm unproven portion
of relativity theory
by Robert Lee Hotz
“After decades of searching, scientists on Thursday announced they have directly detected gravitational waves for the first time, caused by a cosmic clash of black holes so violent, its shock waves rippled the ethereal fabric of space and time across a billion light years of distance… As they travel, gravitational waves stretch and compress space, encoding the physics of the event that produced them. They can be translated into sounds.
‘Not only can we explore the universe with neutrinos and cosmic rays, see it with light across a huge range of wavelengths, but we can now hear it, too, with gravitational waves,’ said Caltech physicist Chiara M. F. Mingarelli, who studies them. ‘Imagine hearing the universe for the first time.’”
Not mentioned in the article is the pitch at which the universe vibrates, so I held my Korg chromatic tuner up to a speaker as the tone played on the BBC’s report of the discovery. The pitch registered as an “A”.
Greek philosopher Pythagoras (c. 570 – c. 495 BCE) proposed that the Sun, the Moon, and the planets in our solar system all emit their own unique “hum” or orbital resonance in relation to each other, creating mathematical ratios that correlate to musical intervals. Pythagoras called it Musica Universalis, or the Music of the Spheres. Credit is due for his insight, and to the many unconventional thinkers/experimenters interested in visualizing and audiating waveforms of all types.
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