Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Sub-atomic sounds

Many years after Blondie's 'Atomic', here's CERN's 'sub-atomic': here you can listen to the simulated sounds produced by sub-atomic particles, the most famous of which is the ever-elusive Higgs boson, aka 'God particle', when they are generated in the Large Hadron Collider. There's a definite sci-fi feel about the littlw tune, I must say. More about the project on the BBC.


The image represents the electronic signatures produced by collisions of protons and antiprotons in the Tevatron accelerator at Fermilab (image via Science Daily, courtesy of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory).

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