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... apparently. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6574059.stmAny suggestions for which organists should be sent there to play the inaugural recital?  |
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« Reply #1 on: 21:17:33, 20-04-2007 » |
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Perhaps we could send the Controller there first to investigate - you know, hot air and that sort of thing. |
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« Reply #2 on: 22:31:23, 20-04-2007 » |
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Puts me in mind of the Pink Floyd song 'Set the controls for the heart of the sun' totally  |
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« Reply #3 on: 22:49:16, 20-04-2007 » |
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Well, I suppose if RW was playing, then the sun would literally be shining out of his...
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« Reply #4 on: 23:00:35, 20-04-2007 » |
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Perhaps we could send the Controller there first to investigate - you know, hot air and that sort of thing. When I look at his picture in the Suggestions section of this message board, I get the impression that he's already used to flames and hot air. |
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« Reply #5 on: 23:23:12, 20-04-2007 » |
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If we had a craft capable of approaching the Sun close enough to detect the magnetic vibrations in individual coronal loops, convert them to signals and to a speaker, then the sound would be rather random, a form of New Music. Roger would not be impressed  |
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« Reply #6 on: 01:47:30, 21-04-2007 » |
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This is the former Director of the British Music Information Centre (which specialises in promoting the work of living composers) we're talking about, John!
Not that you'd know it from the way he behaves these days, you're quite right ...
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« Reply #7 on: 09:23:27, 21-04-2007 » |
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A headline in the Times a few years back:
"EU Study Warns of Dangers of Flying to the Sun"
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« Reply #8 on: 15:29:24, 21-04-2007 » |
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If we had a craft capable of approaching the Sun close enough to detect the magnetic vibrations in individual coronal loops, convert them to signals and to a speaker, then the sound would be rather random, a form of New Music. Roger would not be impressed I don't see that this is necessarily the case; saying this, I am not a plasma-physicist (nor, indeed, a physicist at all); from what the article says (not that one can generally confidently read anything in to BBC's science reporting) that there are definite frequencies of oscillation in these half-tori & blah blah blah. At least might be manipulable to give something with smooth transitions. But yeah, still probably pretty random : ) |
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« Reply #9 on: 16:46:33, 21-04-2007 » |
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I don't see that this is necessarily the case; saying this, I am not a plasma-physicist (nor, indeed, a physicist at all); from what the article says (not that one can generally confidently read anything in to BBC's science reporting) that there are definite frequencies of oscillation in these half-tori & blah blah blah. At least might be manipulable to give something with smooth transitions. But yeah, still probably pretty random : )
I think the oscillations referred to are those that would dictate the frequency(s) of the 'not(es)' in the 'sound' rather than a 'rhythm' (which would have introduced a non-random element) but like you, increpatio, I have not read any of the other reference that might discuss coronal loops so may not have actually read anything accurate about them John W |
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« Reply #10 on: 16:55:37, 21-04-2007 » |
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Anybody thought of giving Karlheinz a bell about this ?
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« Reply #11 on: 17:09:24, 21-04-2007 » |
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I think the oscillations referred to are those that would dictate the frequency(s) of the 'not(es)' in the 'sound' rather than a 'rhythm' (which would have introduced a non-random element) but like you, increpatio, I have not read any of the other reference that might discuss coronal loops so may not have actually read anything accurate about them Ah yeah, forgot about rhythmic randomness! ;P Made a small effort to see what the internet might have to say on the matter; other than an excessively pretty picture of them on APOD http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap050814.htmlthere is a very short video of them here http://www.solarviews.com/cap/sun/vtrace01.htm ; they seem to exist relatively stably (though an arxiv paper referred to them as being intermittent in both space and time, so they presumably can't be found everywhere, nor do they last terribly long) in this video until the explosion, whereupon the configuration changes. I can't help but think this might sound like a chord change. The page also has a much more florid description of them than the BBC article. Also a youtube video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32N1fSYTkwABut...can't watch it at the moment because my computer sucks a little : ( |
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« Reply #12 on: 23:05:11, 21-04-2007 » |
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Has anyone found the Sea Of Green yet?
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« Reply #13 on: 23:44:44, 21-04-2007 » |
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Has anyone found the Sea Of Green yet?
Eh? |
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« Reply #14 on: 00:43:42, 22-04-2007 » |
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Has anyone found the Sea Of Green yet?
Eh? The Beatles: Yellow Submarine, I think. |
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