Norman
Allan | ||||
Acoustic
Pattern in the
"...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. "... 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. New York Times, 24 May 2002 Cosmic
Microwave Background Radiation.
Now,
would that tone sound "OM"? |