Starship Asterisk*

APOD Robot wrote: ↑Tue Jan 21, 2020 5:09 am
What does the solar wind sound like? A wind of fast moving particles blows out from our Sonny, and although space transmits sound poorly, particle impact and variable-field data from NASA's near-Sun Parker Solar Probe is being translated into sound. The disarming audio track of the featured video recounts several of these reverberations, including spooky-sounding Langmuir Waves (heard first), hurricane-sounding Whistler Mode Waves (heard next), and hard-to-describe Dispersive Cherping Waves (heard last). Also impressive is the video's time-lapse visual track which shows Parker's view to the side of its sun shield, and where the planets Earth, Jupiter, Mercury and Venus appear in succession, interspersed with bursts of powerful cosmic rays impacting the imager. The nature of the solar wind near Mercury is surprisingly different from near the Earth, and much study is underway to better understand the differences.

pferkul wrote: ↑Tue Jan 21, 2020 3:41 pm Translating particle impact and variable-field data of the solar wind into "sound" is about as meaningful as translating them into Japanese.

pferkul wrote: ↑Tue Jan 21, 2020 3:41 pm
Translating particle impact and variable-field data of the solar wind into "sound" is about as meaningful as translating them into Japanese.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/sound#etymonline_v_23919 wrote:
<<sound (n.1) "noise, what is heard, sensation produced through the ear," late 13c., soun, from Old French son "sound, musical note, voice," from Latin sonus "sound, a noise." The unetymological -d was established c. 1350-1550 as part of a tendency to add -d- after -n-. Compare gender (n.), thunder (n.), jaundice (n.), spindle, kindred, and, from French powder (n.), meddle, tender (adj.), remainder.