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>he signal persisted in the LIGO frequency band for approximately 1 s, increasing in frequency and amplitude over about 55 cycles from 35 to 450 Hz Would love
by heegemcgee 10y ago
>he signal persisted in the LIGO frequency band for approximately 1 s, increasing in frequency and amplitude over about 55 cycles from 35 to 450 Hz
Would love to hear an audio facsimile of what this might "sound" like.
- saboot 10y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyDcTbR-kEA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyDcTbR-kEA From the first detection
- eaq 10y agoFor this particular event, see https://losc.ligo.org/events/GW151226/ https://losc.ligo.org/events/GW151226/, near the bottom of the page
- dev1n 10y agoIt's truly incredible that I can sit here, plug my headphones into this little electrical box and "hear" the gravitational sound of two black holes colliding. If only Mr. Einstein could be here to listen.
- pavel_lishin 10y agoI love that the data-as-sound is so cute: https://losc.ligo.org/s/events/GW151226/GW151226_template_shifted.wav https://losc.ligo.org/s/events/GW151226/GW151226_template_sh...
- jerf 10y agoTruly an unbelievably jaunty little sound considering that it represents the entire mass of our solar system being converted into energy. Yow.
- lisper 10y agoIndeed. And to put that into perspective: "The amount of matter converted to energy in the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima was about 700 milligrams, less than one-third the mass of a U.S. dime." (From http://discovermagazine.com/2010/jul-aug/24-numbers-nuclear-weapons-bomb-stockpile-peace http://discovermagazine.com/2010/jul-aug/24-numbers-nuclear-...)