Sound

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    The Sound So Loud That It Circled the Earth Four Times

    The 1883 eruption on Krakatoa may be the loudest noise the Earth has ever made.
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    Hearing Hadrons, and Doing Research by Ear

    Animation of data from collisions at the LHCCERN Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Several years ago, particle physicist Lily Asquith was hanging out with a few musician pals in London after a band rehearsal, doing impromptu impersonations of what she thought the various elementary particles might sound like, […]
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    Why Pianos, and Monkeys, Can Never Really Play the Blues

    One of the last things you’d expect to see at a physics conference is a physicist on stage, in a dapper hat, pounding out a few riffs of the blues on a keyboard. But that’s exactly what University of Illinois professor J. Murray Gibson did at the recent March meeting of the American Physical Society […]