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stunt_muppet) wrote2010-06-26 04:38 pm
stunt_muppet) wrote2010-06-26 04:38 pm
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Science is, in fact, amazing.
Scientists have converted the theoretical energy signature that the Higgs boson will produce if it's created in the LHC into a set of sounds, which will allow scientists to listen to the data and pick out the Higgs boson by sound instead of having to search through the energry readings.
Even just listening to it, reproduced on the computer, is a little staggering - thinking about those bell-like noises integrated into every part of the material world. It's like we've taken the medieval idea of the "music of the spheres" and turned it on its head. Only it's real. (Maybe.)
Of course, in a shocking twist, scientists will then actually run the Atlas experiment and find that the Higgs boson sounds exactly like a vuvuzela.
Speaking of vuvuzelas, apparently an American Army employee in Germany grew so annoyed with his neighbors' vuvuzela-blowing that he threatened them with an axe. Who ever said soccer wasn't interesting?
Even just listening to it, reproduced on the computer, is a little staggering - thinking about those bell-like noises integrated into every part of the material world. It's like we've taken the medieval idea of the "music of the spheres" and turned it on its head. Only it's real. (Maybe.)
Of course, in a shocking twist, scientists will then actually run the Atlas experiment and find that the Higgs boson sounds exactly like a vuvuzela.
Speaking of vuvuzelas, apparently an American Army employee in Germany grew so annoyed with his neighbors' vuvuzela-blowing that he threatened them with an axe. Who ever said soccer wasn't interesting?
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