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Re:What no one has seen before: gravitational waveforms from... by rakoo on Thursday June 06, 2024 @05:46AM (#40595476)
This is the minimum for the drum to move, but sound is also about a frequency no ? Do gravitaional waves have the right one ?
Re:What no one has seen before: gravitational waveforms from... by rachofsunshine on Thursday June 06, 2024 @02:48PM (#40600970)
They do. The signal in question peaked at around 250 Hz, so in the bass range of human hearing.

But as noted in other posts the post you're replying to was based on an incorrect assumption - there's a corrected value in one of the comment threads, and the distance for it to be audible is much closer than originally posted, roughly the Earth-Moon distance.

Re:What no one has seen before: gravitational waveforms from... by fasa99 on Friday June 07, 2024 @11:50AM (#40609808)
On this point I recall when the gravity wave detector first detected a black hole merge, which is of course a LOT of mass and power. It was in the hearing range so they played a .wav. It unironically sounded exactly like a "PLOP" drop of water falling in a bucket - an irony that such a big event and a small event sound so similar.
Re:What no one has seen before: gravitational waveforms from... by rakoo on Saturday June 08, 2024 @08:29AM (#40617103)
This is both not surprising and surprisingly amazing