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Acoustic Pattern in the
Cosmic Microwave Background
Radiation

 

"...the primordial gases of the early universe should (be) laced with tiny temperature variations, the result of acoustic waves in the rapidly expanding fireball. The fireball was, in effect, ringing like a bell, with a main note and overtones.
    The "notes" on which the early fireball was singing give a direct way to calculate cosmological parameters like the geometry of space-time, the density of the universe ( i have too take this image down, a hump and asmaller hump) and its rate of expansion."

"... Two years ago (scientists) succeeded in detecting the first of those cosmic notes, whose frequency indicates the geometry of space-time. ...  Last year (scientists) found the next two higher notes on the cosmic scale, whose relation helps theorists guage the densities of ordinary and dark matter in the universe.

"The Cosmic Background Imager ... 16,700 feet high in Chile's Atacama desert ... has now found at least four notes, fading in strength as they go higher.
    "This damping at high frequencies is an important result ... because it was consistent with theoretical predictions that the higher notes would be blurred and faces the way low notes persist longer than high notes when a bell is struck"

New York Times, 24 May 2002

Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation.

 

Now, would that tone sound "OM"?