This is what the LHC sounds like

Posted by alxndr on Friday May 29, 2015 @02:03AM
from the josephg.com dept.

http://josephg.com/blog/this-is-what-the-lhc-sounds-like/

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Re:This is what the LHC sounds like by adam_d on Friday May 29, 2015 @02:25AM (#9623038)

Interesting! But these aren't the first sounds I've heard from the LHC. They're at least predated by this:

http://lhc-collimation-project.web.cern.ch/lhc-collimation-p...

These are recordings of the noise made when a beam is thrown away at the end of a run. They're fairly terrifying...

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Re:This is what the LHC sounds like by alxndr on Friday May 29, 2015 @03:16AM (#9623184)

Holy cow, doesn't sound comfortable to be near.

(More about a collimator is: http://www.lhcportal.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=459 )

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Re:This is what the LHC sounds like by Turing_Machine on Friday May 29, 2015 @11:27PM (#9628795)

Yeah, I guess. Unless I messed up the calculations, the four batch impact is carrying about 2 million joules.

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Re:This is what the LHC sounds like by kylegordon on Friday May 29, 2015 @09:25AM (#9624346)

Having been allowed to wander around the campus, the sights and sounds are phenomenal. There's entire buildings humming and pulsating steadily, free cooling water towers, land features that are clearly built over the technology underneath. There was one circular feature that we walked over, and when in the middle of it you could hear the cyclic humming of energy being manipulated. Every couple of seconds, buzzzzzz, silence, buzzzzzz coming from all around.

It's well worth a visit!

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Re:This is what the LHC sounds like by phate on Friday May 29, 2015 @04:06AM (#9623331)

I have no idea why but my cat went nuts when I played the sample.

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Re:This is what the LHC sounds like by AHHspiders on Friday May 29, 2015 @02:21AM (#9623025)

I hope this is real. Coolest thing i've seen on the internet this year.

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