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does light make sound?
by vectorEQ 8y ago
does light make sound?
- espeed 8y agoGravitational waves resonate at audio frequencies [1], but I am not aware of any findings on that wrt light. However, you can convert light into sound through the photoacoustic effect [2], and curiously enough, you can recover sound from images through light [3]. [1] Listen to the sound of the kilonova -- the Gravitational Waves Announcement Chirp https://www.ligo.org/science/GW-Inspiral.php https://www.ligo.org/science/GW-Inspiral.php https://theconversation.com/explainer-why-you-can-hear-gravitational-waves-when-things-collide-in-the-universe-92356 https://theconversation.com/explainer-why-you-can-hear-gravi... [2] Converting sunlight into audible sound by means of the photoacoustic effect: The Heliophone [pdf] https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/80794107.pdf https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/80794107.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoacoustic_spectroscopy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoacoustic_spectroscopy [3] Veritasium: Can You Recover Sound From Images? [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUzB0L0mSCI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUzB0L0mSCI See the research Abe Davis is doing on visual vibration analysis: http://abedavis.com http://abedavis.com