[adapted from this #Thread] sonon (n): one wavelength ∂s The equivalent of a photon in a sonic universe (soniverse) Over the past 20 years, my stupid, grasping mind has trying to find ways to combine music and cosmology. This began with writing music that I (and others) have struggled to describe verbally. When I first stumbled…
Sounds from the soniverse 2018-02-28
New sounds, based on quasar spectra from “The next generation atlas of quasar spectral energy distributions from radio to x-rays” (http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0067-0049/196/1/2) Source Processed
Listen to the radio-cube of the Antennae Galaxies
Below is the optical image of the “Antennae Galaxies” colliding, as taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Overlaid below is a radio-image taken by ALMA. In the ‘image’ in this case, each pixel is actually represents a spectrum of frequencies across the electromagnetic radio spectrum: the ‘image’ is actually a data-cube. We have transformed this…
Adventures in acoustic cosmology
ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY PRESS RELEASE RAS PR 17/30 (NAM 13) 3rd July 2017 A project that explores whether there is a musical equivalent to the curvature of spacetime will be presented on Thursday 6th July by Gavin Starks at the National Astronomy Meeting at the University of Hull. Starks, who has a background in radio…