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A Deep Voice From Deep Space
Washington Post ^
| September 10, 2003
| Guy Gugliotta
Posted on 09/24/2003 10:39:57 AM PDT by tang-soo
Edited on 09/24/2003 10:42:36 AM PDT by Admin Moderator.
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Astronomers for the first time have detected sound waves emanating from a supermassive black hole, researchers said yesterday. With a frequency of 10 million years, the wave is the deepest "note" ever found in the universe -- a B-flat that is 57 octaves below a piano's middle C.
Researchers said heat generated by the sound wave may explain why gases moving within clusters of galaxies do not cool down to form more stars -- an anomaly that has puzzled astrophysicists for years.
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4 "Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation? Tell me, if you understand.
5 Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it?
6 On what were its footings set, or who laid its cornerstone-
7 while the morning stars sang together and all the angels (the sons of God) shouted for joy?
Job 38:4-7 (The New International Version)
Given time, science eventually catches up with the Bible.
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posted on
09/24/2003 10:39:57 AM PDT
by
tang-soo
To: tang-soo
AMEN
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posted on
09/24/2003 10:41:39 AM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(Hillary's election to President will start a civil war)
To: tang-soo
How can a B flat be 57 octaves below a middle C [on, or off, a piano]?
To: tang-soo
"Space, b flat"
"No, space be curved!"
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posted on
09/24/2003 10:48:48 AM PDT
by
martin_fierro
(I can't believe jigsaw keeps track of witty taglines)
To: curmudgeonII
How can a B flat be 57 octaves below a middle C [on, or off, a piano]? Just because a note is below the range of a piano keyboard or even human hearing doesn't mean it can't exist.
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posted on
09/24/2003 10:49:06 AM PDT
by
Bacon Man
(Bacon is never wrong but occasionally fried.)
To: curmudgeonII
How can a B flat be 57 octaves below a middle C [on, or off, a piano]? I think he means 57 and two twelfths octaves, but he rounded off...
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posted on
09/24/2003 10:49:48 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: curmudgeonII
By having a wavelength 57 times longer than middle c.
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posted on
09/24/2003 10:51:29 AM PDT
by
eastsider
To: Izzy Dunne
Gotta have a long left arm to hit that note.
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posted on
09/24/2003 10:51:54 AM PDT
by
gitmo
(Zero Tolerance = Intolerance)
To: nuconvert
You need some humor, PING!
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posted on
09/24/2003 10:53:01 AM PDT
by
Pan_Yans Wife
("Life isn't fair. It's fairer than death, is all.")
To: Bacon Man
Just because a note is below the range of a piano keyboard or even human hearing doesn't mean it can't exist. True, but one shouldn't call this "sound".
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posted on
09/24/2003 10:53:02 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
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To: Izzy Dunne
Sound wave would probably be more appropriate.
To: eastsider
By having a wavelength 57 times longer than middle c. Not quite.
Go down ONE octave, the wavelength is twice middle C.
Go down TWO octaves, the wavelength is four times middle C.
Go down THREE octaves, the wavelength is eight times middle C.
Go down 57 octaves, and the wavelength is 2^57 times middle C.
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09/24/2003 10:57:05 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: tang-soo
I thought sound couldn't travel in a vacuum.
To: Izzy Dunne
Picky, picky, picky ...
All right, then, by having a wavelength 57 times longer than the B-flat below middle C. Okay? : )
To: CO_dreamer
I thought sound couldn't travel in a vacuum.I guess we all need to get rid of our XM radios...
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posted on
09/24/2003 11:00:36 AM PDT
by
null and void
(Life is like a sewer, what you get out of it depends entirely on what you put into it. - Hen3ry)
To: tang-soo
A deep voice from deep space: LORD VADER SPEAKS!!!!
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09/24/2003 11:01:51 AM PDT
by
Cronos
(W2004)
To: Howlin; Ed_NYC; MonroeDNA; widgysoft; Springman; Timesink; dubyaismypresident; Grani; coug97; ...
...and when they decoded it, they figured out that it was a really deep voice saying, "ZUUUUUULLLL"Just damn.
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posted on
09/24/2003 11:04:00 AM PDT
by
mhking
(Don't mess in the affairs of dragons; For you are crunchy, and taste great with ketchup...)
To: CO_dreamer; null and void
I thought sound couldn't travel in a vacuum.Space isn't really a perfect vacuum, see this follow up article.
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posted on
09/24/2003 11:05:25 AM PDT
by
KayEyeDoubleDee
(const tag& constTagPassedByReference)
To: null and void
XM radio doesn't receive sound, it receives radio waves and translates them into sound.
To: Izzy Dunne
Congratulations, Izzy. You are today's winner of the Pythagorean Award. You're exactly right, thank you. The correct answer is, "By having a wavelength 2 to the 57th power longer than the B-flat below middle C."
Thanks again : )
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