Ober Dicta

1:32 AM

So simple, yet quite possibly the coolest thing I've heard all week, courtesy of physicist and Analog columnist John Cramer: the sound of the big bang.

"It sounds rather like a large jet plane 100 feet off the ground flying over your house in the middle of the night. You can hear the falling frequencies as the universe expands and becomes more of a bass instrument, the rise and fall of CMB emission, and the interesting counterplay of the frequencies that were measured. It's what you might hear if you could "listen" to the cosmic background radiation during the first 760,000 years of the birth of the universe."