The sound of God (particle)
June 23, 2010 - 10:30pm
Scientists have simulated the sounds set to be made by sub-atomic particles such as the Higgs boson when they are produced at the Large Hadron Collider.
Their aim is to develop a means for physicists at Cern to "listen to the data" and pick out the Higgs particle if and when they finally detect it.
so lmao
I think they have to look at it before it's real, or at least, this is the way it is according to Eugene Wigner. We all exist only because someone observes us and we decohere from wave form to definite atomic state. But if no one observes Sara over there, is she not real? What sentient, omnicious and omnipresent being can observe lonely Sara to make her real?
I thought this was the sound of god - or in any case, what remains of the bang which began time and space:
http://spacecollective.org/fredjc/3081/The-Sound-of-Cosmic-Background-Ra...
Hard to imagine a vibration could last 13 billion years.
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And seeing as scientist have for years looked for elements by looking at the prisms of light that passes through them, listening for a particle isn't all that odd - or equally amazing, depending on your perspective. Interesting article.
HINT: They can't see it, the so called god particle, because it is not in our range of sight abilities, as we HEAR and see at set vibrational frequencies. We can know there are other sound frequencies, we just can't HEAR them, just as we can know there things we cannot see.
So...it is pretty damn funny to me, when people start carrying on about seeing and hearing things that it is not possible for us as humans to hear and see.
Most certainly something has, and can be, built to see or hear what we cannot and then tell us there is something registering that we cannot hear or see. And thus we do and would know there are things we cannot see or hear existing, but we still could not see or hear it, as it actually is.
I think I know what you mean. There are things they can see with RADAR which are not normally visible. Sonar can be used to find schools of fish in session. Infrared cameras see things we can't with normal vision. Geophysical surveys using electrical and electromagnetic methods can be used to find mineral deposits etc. Maybe they need Star Trek Data's eyeglasses, or something. Kaku says we/they will have invisibility technology someday. Maybe God and his particles won't be able to detect us in future.
HINT: They can't see it, the so called god particle, because it is not in our range of sight abilities, as we HEAR and see at set vibrational frequencies. We can know there are other sound frequencies, we just can't HEAR them, just we know there things we cannot see.
So it is pretty damn funny to me, when people start carrying on about seeing and hearing things it is not possible for us to hear and see.
Most certainly something could be built to see or hear what we cannot and then tell us there is something registering that we cannot hear or see. And thus we would know things are there we cannot see or hear, but we still could not see or hear it, as it actually is.
You can't hear anything on a subatomic level anyway (or in space), because what you actually hear is a medium like air or water being moved by the energy wave - not the wave itself. No air means no sound. So the experience of hearing is itself a second-hand perception of the actual source - the wave.
Likewise, there are a lot of things that we see, even though we require a device to do so. The glasses on my nose reading these words are a good example. Same thing for using a telescope to collect enough light so that our eyes can see it (some nebulae that we cannot see are actually as big as the moon) or using a camera to pick up the colour in nebulae that we never see through a telescope withour eyes.
News media use that kind of inaccurate but useful shorthand all the time, because they are terms that lay people will understand without having to take a university course.
It is a very simple thought process if you actualy think about it, eh...
We humans hear sounds that are between about 20Hz and 20kHz, some more some less on that scale. We cannot hear anything on either side of the range amounts, even though there are 'sounds' that exist outside of that range. For example, dog whistles. We know they work, as we can see the result, but that does not mean we can hear the sound they make. We can have a machine tell us what the Hz is, but we still cannot hear it.
Our eyes can only see in the neighbourhood of 400-800 THz, or in other words wavelengths that are from about 400 to 750nm. We know things exist outside of this frequency range, but we cannot see them.
Just as we cannot 'see' the so called " god-particle" (the name of this should have been met with outrage btw) we would not be able to 'hear' it either, as it is not within our range of "hearing".
That's easy for you to say.
Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin limit
The Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin limit (GZK limit) is a theoretical upper limit on the energy of cosmic rays from distant sources.This limit was computed in 1966 by Kenneth Greisen, Vadem Kuzmin and Georgi Zatsepin, based on interactions predicted between the cosmic ray and the photons of the cosmic microwave background radiation. They predicted that cosmic rays with energies over the threshold energy of 5×1019 eV would interact with CMB photons to produce pions. This would continue until their energy fell below the pion production threshold. Therefore, extragalactic cosmic rays with energies greater than this threshold energy should never be observed on Earth.
Unsolved problems in physics: Why is it that some cosmic rays appear to possess energies that are theoretically too high, given that there are no possible near Earth sources, and that rays from distant sources should have been absorbed by the cosmic microwave background radiation?A number of observations have been made by the AGASA experiment that appear to show cosmic rays from distant sources with energies above this limit (whimsically dubbed Oh-My-God particles). The observed existence of these particles is the so-called GZK paradox or cosmic ray paradox.
Oh-My-God particle
On the evening of October 15, 1991, an ultra-high energy cosmic particle was observed over Salt Lake City, Utah. Dubbed the "Oh-My-God particle(a play on the nickname "God particle" for the Higgs boson), it was estimated to have an energy of approximately 3 × 1020 electronvolts,equivalent to about 50 joules —in other words, it was a subatomic particle with macroscopic kinetic energy, comparable to that of afastball, or to the mass-energy of a microbe. It was most likely a shock to astrophysicists. Since the first observation, by the University of Utah's Fly's Eye 2, at least fifteen similar events have been recorded, confirming the phenomenon. The source of such high energy particles remains a mystery, especially since interactions with blue-shifted cosmic microwave background radiation limit the distance that these particles can travel before losing energy (the Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin limit). Because of its mass the Oh-My-God particle would have experienced very little influence from cosmic electromagnetic and gravitational fields, and so its trajectory should be easily calculable. However, nothing of note was found in the estimated direction of its origin.You just have to put it into perspective.
The Sound of Gravitational Waves
We can't actually hear gravitational waves, even with the most sophisticated equipment, because the sounds they make are the wrong frequency for our ears to hear. This is similar in principle to the frequency of dog whistles that canines can hear, but that are too high for humans. The sounds of gravitational waves are probably too low for us to actually hear. However, the signals that scientists hope to measure with LISA and other gravitational wave detectors are best described as "sounds." If we could hear them, here are some of the possible sounds of a gravitational wave generated by the movement of a small body inspiralling into a black hole.
With the discovery of sound waves in the CMB, we have entered a new era of precision cosmology in which we can begin to talk with certainty about the origin of structure and the content of matter and energy in the universeWayne Hu See:Sound waves in the CMBWe can't actually hear gravitational waves, even with the most sophisticated equipment, because the sounds they make are the wrong frequency for our ears to hear. This is similar in principle to the frequency of dog whistles that canines can hear, but that are too high for humans. The sounds of gravitational waves are probably too low for us to actually hear. However, the signals that scientists hope to measure with LISA and other gravitational wave detectors are best described as "sounds." If we could hear them, here are some of the possible sounds of a gravitational wave generated by the movement of a small body inspiralling into a black hole.
I did and used the exact same example even. ;)
....double post
Helioseismology is the study of the propagation of wave oscillations, particularly acoustic pressure waves, in the Sun.
(From NASA:) A full-disk multiwavelength extreme ultraviolet image of the sun taken by SDO on March 30, 2010. False colors trace different gas temperatures. Reds are relatively cool (about 60,000 Kelvin, or 107,540 F); blues and greens are hotter (greater than 1 million Kelvin, or 1,799,540 F). Credit: NASA
Source of Picture is taken from here
Remind go through Wayne Hu link and then tell me what you think about the CMB in this way.
Ever wonder who coined the term the God particle?
I found the following clip from the article linked at bottom of Quote. Very funny indeed.
"New? No, wait! You mean the guy in your lab?
"Yeah."
"That's no janitor, dummy, that's Professor Gilberto Bernardini, a world-famous Italian cosmic-ray expert whom I invited to spend a year here to help you in your research."
"Oh, my God!" I gasped and rushed in to repair my damage. Over time, Bernardini and I learnt how to communicate and I began to watch Gilberto. There was his habit of entering a dark room, pushing the light switch: light. Pushing it again: off. On, off five or six times. Each time there would be a loud "fantastico!" Why? He seemed to have this remarkable sense of wonder about simple things.
Then the cloud chamber.
Gilberto: "Wat's dat wire in de middle?"
Leon: "That's carrying the radioactive source."
Gilberto: "Tayk id oud."
Leon: "It makes tracks."
Gilberto: "Tayk id oud."
After a few minutes, tracks appeared. My source had been far too radioactive for the chamber! Now we had a success. See:Life in physics and the crucial sense of wonder
Interesting link have it bookmarked, however I still think about it in the same way. I think, if I get your question correctly
In cosmology, the early Universe was crossed by real acoustic waves generated soon after Big Bang. Such vibrations left their imprints 300 000 years later as tiny density fluctuations in the primordial plasma. Hot and cold spots in the present-day 2.7 K CMB radiation reveal those density fluctuations. Thus the CMB temperature fluctuations look like Chaldni patterns resulting from a complicated three-dimensional drumhead that
This is similar thinking that I showed Fidel in terms of Lagrangian and the relationship of the Three body problem as one looks toward the cosmos and how tunnels in space can be perceived. Satellite rotations and boosts for travel once you understand the ways in which values relate to the sound of things as they relate to moving in the cosmos in the easiest ways.
Radar echos from Titan's surface
This recording was produced by converting into audible sounds some of the radar echoes received by Huygens during the last few kilometres of its descent onto Titan. As the probe approaches the ground, both the pitch and intensity increase. Scientists will use intensity of the echoes to speculate about the nature of the surface.
Gravity is the force that pulls two masses together. Since
the earth has varied features such as mountains, valleys, and
underground caverns, the mass is not evenly distributed around the
globe. The "lumps" observed in the Earth's gravitational field result
from an uneven distribution of mass inside the Earth. The
GRACE mission will give us a global map of Earth's gravity and how it
changes as the mass distribution shifts. The two satellites will
provide scientists from all over the world with an efficient and
cost-effective way to map the Earth's gravity field.
The primary goal of the GRACE mission is to map the Earth's gravity
field more accurately than has ever been done before. You might ask,
how will GRACE do this? Two identical spacecraft will fly about 200
kilometers apart. As the two GRACE satellites orbit the Earth they are
pulled by areas of higher or lower gravity and will move in relation to
each other. The satellites are located by GPS and the distance between
them is measured by microwave signals. The two satellites do not just
carry science instruments, they become the science instrument. When
mass moves from place to place within the Earth's atmosphere, ocean,
land or frozen surface (the "cryosphere"), the gravity field changes.
"...in two years running we're going to put Fermilab out of business...": CERN CERN turning up the volume
How perception is used upsets you?
Given that you now have some knowledge about a particular subject seeing that it has been synthesized in a modal sense, then the sense on how one looks toward something has been changed. Perception then, is different? If you look around you, the foundational basis with which you engage the reality has been altered. Awareness?
I'll give you a "direct physical response that originates with how one perceives" without any slight of hand tricks so that you might think about the way in which we have compartmentalized the way we all see reality.
Hearing Colors, Tasting Shapes By Vilayanur S. Ramachandran and Edward M. Hubbard
Kandinsky, himself an accomplished musician, once said Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul. The concept that color and musical harmony are linked has a long history, intriguing scientists such as Sir Isaac Newton. Kandinsky used color in a highly theoretical way associating tone with timbre (the sound's character), hue with pitch, and saturation with the volume of sound. He even claimed that when he saw color he heard music.
Article
Modern scientists have known about synesthesia since 1880, when Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, published a paper in Nature on the phenomenon. But most have brushed it aside as fakery, an artifact of drug use (LSD and mescaline can produce similar effects) or a mere curiosity. About four years ago, however, we and others began to uncover brain processes that could account for synesthesia. Along the way, we also found new clues to some of the most mysterious aspects of the human mind, such as the emergence of abstract thought, metaphor and perhaps even language.
ABSTRACT: Synesthesia (Greek, syn = together + aisthesis = perception) is the involuntary physical experience of a cross-modal association. That is, the stimulation of one sensory modality reliably causes a perception in one or more different senses. Its phenomenology clearly distinguishes it from metaphor, literary tropes, sound symbolism, and deliberate artistic contrivances that sometimes employ the term "synesthesia" to describe their multisensory joinings. An unexpected demographic and cognitive constellation co-occurs with synesthesia: females and non-right-handers predominate, the trait is familial, and memory is superior while math and spatial navigation suffer. Synesthesia appears to be a left-hemisphere function that is not cortical in the conventional sense. The hippocampus is critical for its experience. Five clinical features comprise its diagnosis. Synesthesia is "abnormal" only in being statistically rare. It is, in fact, a normal brain process that is prematurely displayed to consciousness in a minority of individuals.
Yellow, Red, Blue
1925; Oil on canvas, 127x200cm; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Lets just say that when we concertize the experience we have fundamental accepted the way in which we associate with reality. A good example is that when children are born, does the synthesis conform as many who do who compartmentalize?
We can box experience in terms of measures that we use.
For instance calorimeters.
Iron wedges of the CMS forward calorimeter-Source from Quantum Diaries Survivor.
If new detectors will ever be built to explore a yet higher energy regime than the one about to be probed by LHC, calorimeters will be as necessary as they are today. The following characteristics will be desirable in a design of new generation:The future
* self-triggering (the ability of independent portions of the system to identify and measure a signal, interpreting it and sending an accept signal to the data aquisition system)
* stand-alone tracking (the ability of the calorimeter system to independently determine the direction of crossing particles)
* an integrated time-of-flight measurement (the capability to separate different particle signals based on the delay between their arrival time and the interaction time)
* high resolution and granularity (attainable with silicon technology)
The needs of these fancy features, however, rests on the specific hunt that we will decide to embark on. Which, in turn, critically depends on the discoveries that the Large Hadron Collider will produce!Calorimeters for High-Energy Physics - part 2, by Tommaso Dorigo
Calorimeters for High Energy Physics experiments - part 1
Calorimeters for High-Energy Physics - part 2 April 11, 2008
Strangelets, Black Holes and the GOD particle - by Tom Termotto
http://opednews.com/articles/Strangelets-Black-Holes-a-by-Dr-Tom-Termott...
"The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest and highest energy particle accelerator that straddles the border of France and Switzerland is quite busy lately playing with the most basic ingredients of the universe. Much of humanity is completely oblivious to what is taking place there, even though the elemental forces of creation are being manipulated as never before.
Perhaps it's time to take a closer look...?"
somewhat flaky but good info on the LHC nonetheless
Higgs Boson running out of places to hide stanjames.com taking bets on Higgs