In the Beginning was The Word...

[Uncus]

quote:The Universe began not with a bang but with a low moan, building into a roar that gave way to a deafening hiss. And those sounds gave birth to the first stars.

Now you are hearing it from an other source : science itself. A low moan... a word ? The sound which created ?

Out of the cosmic microwave background radiation, the original cosmic cacophony has been reconstructed...and, hold on tight :

quote:Translating the observed frequency spectrum directly to sound yields tones far too low for ears to hear - some 50 octaves below middle A - but transpose the score up all those octaves and you can listen to it.

As for volume, the intensity of the variations corresponds to about 110 decibels, as loud as a rock concert. Whittle has also used the best available cosmological models to map the way the vibrations evolved over time, showing how the chords of the big bang changed over the Universe's first million years or so.

About 50 octaves below A, or the human voice.

Was that God's voice ?

The Bible may be right, after all.



Universe started with hiss, not bang http://www.newscientist.com/hottopic...?id=ns99995092

[This message has been edited by Uncus (edited 06-30-2004).]