This is what the LHC sounds like

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Post by alxndr » Fri, May 29, 2015, 6:03 AM UTC

This is what the LHC sounds like
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Re: This is what the LHC sounds like

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Post by AHHspiders » Fri, May 29, 2015, 6:21 AM UTC

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

Re: This is what the LHC sounds like

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Post by adam_d » Fri, May 29, 2015, 6:25 AM UTC

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...

Re: This is what the LHC sounds like

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Post by alxndr » Fri, May 29, 2015, 7:16 AM UTC

adam_d wrote: post #3

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...

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 )

Re: This is what the LHC sounds like

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Post by phate » Fri, May 29, 2015, 8:06 AM UTC

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

Re: This is what the LHC sounds like

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Post by kylegordon » Fri, May 29, 2015, 1:25 PM UTC

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!

Re: This is what the LHC sounds like

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Post by Turing_Machine » Sat, May 30, 2015, 3:27 AM UTC

adam_d wrote: post #3

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...

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