Hi Janina, good observation. :) any body for the "a 432" tuning out there? My wife has switched to the a 432 tuning & it is so much more healing! As for the big bang radiation. Behind the big bang is the ultimate big banger! :) Nothing from nothing = nothing! GOD for U is the Creator of the engineers that produced Apple! C.R.
On Aug 19, 2017, at 2:52 PM, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries wrote: > Great points, Scott. I would add only that it was sound that tipped off > the discovery of the Big Bang. Everywhere Penzias and Wilson pointed > their radio telescopes they found the same background noise pattern, > which pointed to the same background em radiation: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_of_cosmic_microwave_background_radiation > > > I find this fact particularly important to convey to blind children who > should know their ears alone could just discover something really, really > important. > > There's, of course, no sound in space, as we humans know sound. But the > vibrations discoverable throughout the univers can certainly be mapped. > Make good musical choices in those mappings and you would indeed get > something quite hauntingly beautiful. So, Scott, please post some links! > > Janina > > Scott Granados writes: >> This topic came up on an Apple list as well and I’d just like to bring to >> the attention of our group here all the wonderful sounds from space that are >> available. An audio representation of the eclipse is a great idea but have >> you ever heard the sound of the rings of Saturn? How about the Northern and >> Southern lights? The sounds of pulsars are startling in their almost >> artificial sound and yes it’s totally possible to hear the echoes of the Big >> Bang from the microwave spectrum. As a young child I remember being under >> attack by all sorts of invisible man in the sky believers and to counter >> this my parents encouraged me to learn about Science. I befriended a local >> science teacher who taught me astronomy (I was about 9 years old at the >> time) and also a fellow from the local phone company who taught me >> electronics where my father’s abilities left off. I mention this here >> because one of the first things I did was scrounge up a huge dish from an >> old satellite ground station and modify it to become a small radio telescope >> in my back yard. One of the first things I picked up was the Smoot >> radiation from the big bang and actually hearing the echoes of the creation >> of the universe hooked me for life. I then started to write software on an >> old Apple 2E to decode that radiation and generate both numeric and visual >> representations of the background radiation which could paint a picture of >> how the massive ripples of the expansion of space and time echoed across >> over 13.5 billion years. It’s such a good way for a blind person, >> especially children to connect with the wonders of nature and science which >> sometimes can be painfully visual. If there’s any interest and nobody >> objects about it being off topic I would be happy to post links to some of >> this audio and big thanks to Janina for pointing this out. >> >> >> >> >> >>> On Aug 18, 2017, at 5:40 PM, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries >>> <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> People living anywhere proximate to the coming solar eclipse might want >>> to look into a special app intended to help blind and visually impaired >>> people experience this upcoming celestial event: >>> >>> https://www.space.com/37746-solar-eclipse-experience-for-visually-impaired.html >>> >>> The app, Eclipse Soundscape, may well be available via Itunes Appstore. >>> I haven't checked, though. >>> >>> Enjoy! >>> >>> Janina >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 >>> sip:jan...@asterisk.rednote.net >>> Email: jan...@rednote.net >>> >>> Linux Foundation Fellow >>> Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org >>> >>> The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) >>> Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa >>> >>> -- >>> The following information is important for all members of the Mac >>> Visionaries list. >>> >>> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if >>> you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners >>> or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >>> >>> Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. 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