{"id":571842,"date":"2010-05-20T12:02:36","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T16:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/?p=9538"},"modified":"2010-05-20T12:02:36","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T16:02:36","slug":"i-swear-subatomic-particles-are-singing-to-me-discoblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/571842","title":{"rendered":"I Swear: Subatomic Particles Are Singing to Me! | Discoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Large Hadron Collider physicists have heard the voice of the “god particle,” the Higgs boson, and it sounds a bit like a child\u2019s music box. Lily Asquith, a physicist searching for the Higgs boson–the elementary particle believed to give everything in the universe mass–is using more than her eyes. With artists and other physicists, she started the LHCsound project to hear subatomic particles. New Scientist reports that the idea arose from a conversation between Asquith and percussionist Eddie Real:
\n\u201cI was actually doing impersonations of different particles and trying to get him to develop them on his electronic drum kit.\u201d
\nThey decided to use real data about particles (and theoretical data for the yet unseen Higgs) to make some noise. In the process that Asquith calls \u201csonification,\u201d the researchers match, for example, the particle\u2019s momentum and energy to pitch and volume. The project’s various simulations demonstrate that Higgs won\u2019t be auditioning for Glee anytime soon. Still, Asquith believes that physicists might use her particle music as an analysis tool, since human ears can detect small differences in a sound’s direction (within around three degrees) and frequency (around 0.3 percent). The aim of the project is to combine each particle’s data from the LHC\u2019s ATLAS detector into …<\/p>\n

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Large Hadron Collider physicists have heard the voice of the “god particle,” the Higgs boson, and it sounds a bit like a child\u2019s music box. Lily Asquith, a physicist searching for the Higgs boson–the elementary particle believed to give everything in the universe mass–is using more than her eyes. With artists and other physicists, she […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}