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Tuesday, June 08, 2004

Here is an extreme close-up of the white noise event occurring at ~200,000 years into the Big Bang. On the first graph, it is just a line. It measures about 2,000 years and probably extends vertically well beyond the scale of the graph. 7:55:11 PM    comment []

I’m a sound guy, not a physicist, so what I see here is that the beat began about 52,000 years (peak-to-peak: see the ascending secondary vertical plume on the right) and harmony started about the same time (see the overtone bands clearly formed, from the twisted rope, on the far right). The bass player (lowest horizontal band) kicks in there too, slightly ahead of the beat like you want a good bass player to do. But what I wanna know is, who said “a-vunna a-two” before the first downbeat? And where was the trombone player?   (credit once again to D. Mark Whittle)   6:53:23 PM    comment []

This is a frequency spectral graph of the sound of the Big Bang, as realized by D. Mark Whittle. The sounds were sub audible, of course, but with no matter in the surrounding media and no one around to hear it that doesn’t matter. A tree fell in the forest long ago ago and how you can go here and hear it. In the graph (time L-R on the X axis, frequency on Y, intensity by color) 1 million years are represented by 5 seconds. Note the cascading bands from the beginning until ~400,000 years, where there is a white noise event (to the top of the frequency spectrum) followed by dispersed frequencies that appear to have passed through a low-pass filter. It is an incredible sound, as you should expect given the event, and it looks downright pretty too – thanks to my new Adobe Audition 1.5 software that lets you visualize (and manipulate!) sound in this domain.   Thanks also to awamabm for providing the link that took me here.   6:17:29 PM    comment []

Shenzhen was just a word for me until today, when I submitted travel forms to go there late August/early September. It is where some of our computers are manufactured and I’d learned to associate it with a serial number prefix, but mentally it was just a dot “somewhere in southern China.” As you can see (you probably know already), it is “right close” (it is “southern”) to Hong Kong. At Shenzhen Travel Information, I learned that local highlights include “Longgang Sanhuang Chicken, Nantou Lichee, Nanshan Peach, Shiyan Pear, Jingui Orange, Longhua Square Persimmon, dragon-dances, lion-dances and steed-dances.” Exotic fruits, a specialty dish, and mythical animal dances, that’s all I need to know for now. I really don’t want to go, jet lag from there turns me into an exotic vegetable for weeks afterwards. Still, the prospect is exciting. 2:30:41 AM    comment []