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It's been quite awhile since I last read the paper but as I recall the author - who was young and whose education so far was not in physics (evidently earning him the nickname "the kid") - speculated that sound (pressure waves) gave rise to light (photons.)

Also, as I recall, his paper was thick on theology and thin on science.

My interest was due to this observed correlation between light and sound, which betty boop and I cite in our book Timothy:

“The MAXIMA, BOOMERANG, and DASI collaborations, which measure minute variations in the CMB [cosmic microwave background radiation], recently reported new results at the American Physical Society meeting in Washington, D.C. All three agree remarkably about what the ‘harmonic proportions’ of the cosmos imply: not only is the universe flat, but its structure is definitely due to inflation, not to topological defects in the early universe.

“The results were presented as plots of slight temperature variations in the CMB that graph sound waves in the dense early universe. These high-resolution ‘power spectra’ show not only a strong primary resonance but are consistent with two additional harmonics, or peaks.

“The peaks indicate harmonics in the sound waves that filled the early, dense universe. Until some 300,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe was so hot that matter and radiation were entangled in a kind of soup in which sound waves (pressure waves) could vibrate. The CMB is a relic of the moment when the universe had cooled enough so that photons could “decouple” from electrons, protons, and neutrons; then atoms formed and light went on its way.”

Paul Preuss, “The Universe May Be Flat But It Is Nevertheless Musical,” Science Beat, Berkeley Lab (June 5, 2001); read it at http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/cmb-harmonics.html

After reading his paper, it was apparent to me that he had a long way to go before his speculation could be taken as a hypothesis or theory.

And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. - Genesis 1:3

[[It’s been quite awhile since I last read the paper but as I recall the author - who was young and whose education so far was not in physics (evidently earning him the nickname “the kid”) - speculated that sound (pressure waves) gave rise to light (photons.)]]

Yep- that was him- His work does have soem hteory- but it’s also backed up by experiments by prominent scientists in the lab- creating light using high pressure sound-

[[After reading his paper, it was apparent to me that he had a long way to go before his speculation could be taken as a hypothesis or theory.]]

I dunno- I’ve seen ‘theories’ of other sciwentists that are based on much less than Dakota presents