[TaraP]

I don't think they were expecting it, but ye they were suprised.... Astronomers find mysterious radio burst Listen to the universe’s primal scream Black hole sings the deepest B-flat---The earliest trumpets date back to 1500 BC and earlier-- trumpet is a musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family.[1] Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments,[2] dating back to at least 1500 BC. They are constructed of brass tubing bent twice into an oblong shape, and are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air column inside the trumpet. There are several types of trumpet; the most common is a transposing instrument pitched in B♭. Not only has it presented astronomers with a new puzzle, it is obscuring the sought-for signal from the earliest stars. But the cosmic static may itself provide important clues to the development of galaxies when the universe was much younger, less than half its present age. Because the radio waves come from far away, traveling at the speed of light, they therefore represent an earlier time in the universe. "This is what makes science so exciting," Seiffert said. "You start out on a path to measure something — in this case, the heat from the very first stars — but run into something else entirely, some unexplained

[thecodont]

I really dig the idea of the Creation taking place in B flat. Can you imagine God's original jazz score? :)

John Coltrane, Giant Steps

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kotK9FNEYU

[boatbums]

Scripture is full of references to space and stars. Here are a few:

Job 38:7 - Stars “sing”. They each give off a certain frequency that can be used to identify them.

I Corinthians 15:41 - Every star differs from another star.

Hebrews 11:12 - The stars are as numberless as the sands of the sea.

[editor-surveyor]

What is translated “trumpet” is Shofar. A shofar is made from a ram’s horn, and is not a musical instrument; it is an instrument of worship. It is blown at Yom Kippur.