Echoes
Kathryn Cramer posts about her father, a physicist at the University of Washington, creating a simulation of what the Big Bang sounded like. I gather it’s been Slashdotted and everyone’s talking about it and everything. Cool stuff. But what I haven’t seen mentioned is that you can also hear what the remains of the Big Bang sound like. Robert Wilson discovered the background radiation left over from the Big Bang in 1963 along with Arno Penzias, both of Bell Labs. There’s an audio recording on the Bell Labs web site of a lecture Wilson gave some years ago that includes the actual sound of the background radiation left over from the Big Bang all these years later.
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