[quote]Who would have thought that the sound of God would tune on a habanera rhythm?
Researchers say they have "sonified" the data from the Atlas experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland, making it possible to "hear" the newly discovered Higgs Boson-like particle, dubbed the "God particle" by Nobel-prize winning physicist Leon Lederman.
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The result is a melody which resembles the dotted rhythm of the habanera, a Cuban dance which became popular in Spain in the early 19th century.
On Wednesday July 4, scientists at CERN announced that they had found a Higgs-like particle after analyzing results from the Large Hadron Collider. Researchers detected a "bump" in their data corresponding to a particle weighing in at 126 gigaelectronvolts (GeV), consistent with the Higgs Boson, which is believed to give mass to all other particles.
"As soon as the announcement was made, we begun working on the sonification of the experimental data," Domenico Vicinanza, product manager at Dante (Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe), Cambridge, UK, told Discovery News.
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Vicinanza led the Higgs sonification project collaborating with Mariapaola Sorrentino of ASTRA Project (Cambridge), who contributed to the sonification process, and Giuseppe La Rocca (INFN Catania), who was in charge of the computing framework.
"Sonification worked by attaching a musical note to each data. So, when you hear the resulting melody you really are hearing the data," Vicinanza said.
The researchers mapped intervals between values in the original data set to interval between notes in the melody. The same numerical value was associated to the same note. As the values increased or decreased, the pitch of the notes grew or diminished accordingly.
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"In this way any regularity in the scientific data can be naturally mapped to the melody: if the data are periodic (they are marked by a repeated cycle) the sonification will be a music melody which will have the same periodicity and regularity," Vicinanza said.
In the sonification, each semiquaver corresponded to an increase of 5 gigaelectronvolts (GeV). The detection of the Higgs-like particle around the 126 gigaelectronvolt mass-energy range (GeV), was then expressed by a peak made of three high notes (about 3.5 seconds into the recording).
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The bump corresponding to the new particle is represented by an F note which is two octaves above the preceding F note, a C which is the most acute note in the music (also two octaves above the subsequent C note) representing the peak of the Higgs, and a E note.
"The discovery of the Higgs-like particle is a major step forward in our knowledge of the world around us. By using sonification we are able to make this breakthrough easier to understand by the general public," Vicinanza said.
Amazingly, the sonification produced a habanera-like music.
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"After hearing the piano solo version, I created another version, more in tone with the resulting melody. I added bass, percussion, marimba and xylophone," Vicinanza said.
Particularly useful when dealing with complex, high-dimensional data, sonification requires enormous amounts of networking and processing power to produce results. To create the Higgs melody, the researchers relied on high-speed research networks including the pan-European GÉANT network, which operates at speed of up to 40Gbps (it will become 100Gb/s by early 2013) and the EGI grid computing infrastructure, which works by linking together multiple computers in different locations via high speed networks.
"Neither the discovery of the particle or this sonification process would have been possible without the high speed research networks that connect scientists across the world, enabling them to collaborate, analyze data and share their results," Vicinanza said.
Photo: Score of the sonification. The bump corresponding to the new particle is represented by a F note which is two octaves above the preceding F note, a C which is the most acute note in the music, representing the peak of the Higgs, and a E note. Credit: Domenico Vicinanza[/quote]
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This is now the official song of science.
Convert higgs boson into sound
Turns out it's [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXw6znXPfy4]this[/url]
Mother of god
They need to make a longer song out of it! Or maybe make an album called "The sounds of Particles" featuring songs made out of all the sounds of particles.
That sounds really good. Was expecting a mess and jumble of sound or just like a low hum or static but not a song.
All I can picture while hearing the little song is an atom wearing a fruit hat.
[QUOTE=TonyP;36708235]All I can picture while hearing the little song is an atom wearing a fruit hat.[/QUOTE]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/HqpXS.png[/IMG]
[QUOTE=abananapeel;36708067]That sounds really good. Was expecting a mess and jumble of sound or just like a low hum or static but not a song.[/QUOTE]
Are we hearing the same particle song?
Because to me it sounds like a barely-organized melody that brings more pain than enjoyment.
[QUOTE=Dacheet;36708421][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/HqpXS.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]
That's a molecule... CO2 to be exact.
[QUOTE=abananapeel;36708067]That sounds really good. Was expecting a mess and jumble of sound or just like a low hum or static but not a song.[/QUOTE]
That's because they converted the data into the well established tonal system of music. It's not really a very accurate sonic representation of the data. It sounds very musical because they only used pitches that we're used to hearing in music. I could take a shit and assign every molecule of it to a note in the C major scale and it would still sound very musical.
Actually it would probably sound like rap.
Just kidding I like some rap.
But it would sound like most rap.
[QUOTE=commander204;36712747]That's a molecule... CO2 to be exact.[/QUOTE]
I know, but I couldn't find a decent looking 3d model of an atom that wasn't a gif
I can imagine one of those short Google videos where they do a video on the scientists working in the HLC with this song playing in the background.
[QUOTE=commander204;36712747]That's a molecule... CO2 to be exact.[/QUOTE]
CO2 with a fruit hat.
The prime cause of Global Whoring.
[QUOTE=TonyP;36708235]All I can picture while hearing the little song is an atom wearing a fruit hat.[/QUOTE]
It's not an atom, it's a subatomic particle (a down quark). However, it's close enough right? All I could find regarding the higgs is the decay. I couldn't find a picture of another boson (googling boson now means higgs boson..)
[img]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/32793717/quarkfruithat.png[/img]
[QUOTE=Gnomical;36717739]It's not an atom, it's a subatomic particle (it's a down quark). However, it's close enough right? All I could find regarding the higgs is the decay. I couldn't find a picture of another boson (googling boson now means higgs boson..)
[img]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/32793717/quarkfruithat.png[/img][/QUOTE]
Let's get down with the quarks and boogie.
[QUOTE=V12US;36717755]Let's get down with the quarks and boogie.[/QUOTE]
Maybe tomorrow I will do all the quarks, try to find some bosons, some leptons, gluons, and a photon all doing limbo and whatnot. I'm too tired to do it now, it's 3:21 AM. :v:
Groovy.
Reminds me of LHC sound:
[url]http://lhcsound.hep.ucl.ac.uk/page_sounds_collisions/Collisions.html[/url]
This sounds like the Sims
[QUOTE=Gnomical;36717739]It's not an atom, it's a subatomic particle (a down quark). However, it's close enough right? All I could find regarding the higgs is the decay. I couldn't find a picture of another boson (googling boson now means higgs boson..)
[img]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/32793717/quarkfruithat.png[/img][/QUOTE]
I know it's not an atom. I just pictured one wearing it.
[QUOTE=V12US;36717755]Let's get down with the quarks and boogie.[/QUOTE]
I dont like quarks much, they're a bit strange, although some can be charming
[url]http://lhcsound.hep.ucl.ac.uk/page_sounds_higgs/Higgs.html[/url]
That shit sounds creepy...
(The decay of the Higgs)
[QUOTE=commander204;36712747]That's a molecule... CO2 to be exact.[/QUOTE]
Only the Carbon atom is wearing the hat so he's still right, just ignore the fact that the little bugger is wearing Oxygen headphones.
[QUOTE=commander204;36712747]That's a molecule... CO2 to be exact.[/QUOTE]
it could be any any non-specific linear molecule, it doesn't have to be CO2. though that would make sense given the apparent sizes
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