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Non-Wargaming Discussion => Chat & News => Topic started by: Techno on 18 October 2017, 06:49:09 AM

Title: How unimpressive !
Post by: Techno on 18 October 2017, 06:49:09 AM
Is this the best noise that two neutron stars can make when they collide ?

I mean....I know it didn't happen just down the street....(Just as well, really)....It was 130million light years away ....But I'd have expected a slightly grander noise than something that sounds like a fuse blowing.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-41640256

If astronomers ever detect the sound of the Big Bang.....What's that going to sound like....."phwppppt" ?

Cheers - Mr Disappointed.
Title: Re: How unimpressive !
Post by: toxicpixie on 18 October 2017, 09:00:00 AM
Try this -
- just right for the new Ghost Arcipelago game :D
Title: Re: How unimpressive !
Post by: Lord Kermit of Birkenhead on 18 October 2017, 09:51:08 AM
Takes so much to please some people !
Title: Re: How unimpressive !
Post by: toxicpixie on 18 October 2017, 10:12:09 AM
I demand the music of the universe be free form experimental jazz!

Mmmm nice...
Title: Re: How unimpressive !
Post by: FierceKitty on 18 October 2017, 11:36:54 AM
Nah, clean eternal laws of order on an 18th century organ.
Title: Re: How unimpressive !
Post by: toxicpixie on 18 October 2017, 11:46:29 AM
No reason you can't make experimental free form jazz on an c18th organ!

It'll probably sound like '70s prog rock shenanigans via the magic of the Moog, but hey.

Just because you can love the universe, doesn't mean the universe loves you ;)
Title: Re: How unimpressive !
Post by: FierceKitty on 18 October 2017, 02:26:17 PM
You have a point.
Title: Re: How unimpressive !
Post by: Dr Dave on 18 October 2017, 02:27:34 PM
Well, strictly speaking, it's not a sound anyway. Sound being a longitudinal wave it cannot propagate in space which is a vacuum. Also, if it could, then the "sound" has spread into a sphere and it is an awful long way away. The further away the quieter it is!

Jazz, uhmmm, smooth, uhmmm... shi£e.  :D
Title: Re: How unimpressive !
Post by: d_Guy on 18 October 2017, 02:52:24 PM
If two neutron stars colllide in space and no receiver is tuned to detect, do the still propagate a waveform?
Title: Re: How unimpressive !
Post by: O Dinas Powys on 18 October 2017, 07:51:28 PM
Quote from: d_Guy on 18 October 2017, 02:52:24 PM
If two neutron stars colllide in space and no receiver is tuned to detect, do the still propagate a waveform?

:-B :-bd =O