How The Universe Was Created .

I am just watching programs on how science says the universe was created and it made me think . Over the years people have reported and caught on camera noises that seem to be coming from the sky or space . Heres a point to ponder , I wonder if these strange noises could be other galaxies colliding or stars being created or imploding etc . No one has ever been able to explain these strange sounds and sound waves take time to travel through space and would love to know what science thinks of this theory . After all things like this must create alot of noise when it happens .

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ArishMell · 70-79, M

Sound does not travel through a vacuum at all, so stars and galaxies do not make sounds in the ordinary way, outside of stars' own atmospheres.

What the astronomers record are audio analogues of the [i]radio [/i]waves from the objects.

That said, I think the scientists are beginning to understand at least some of them. The signals all result from fluctuating or oscillating nuclear and magnetic processes within stars and galaxies, but the puzzle is determining exactly what and how.

Some are relatively simple to explain, such as a regular "flashing" effect due to a star spinning rapidly on an axis at some steep angle relatively to ours. There, the electromagnetic radiation is fairly steady but partially focussed by the star's own magnetic field so behaves rather like the beam from a lighthouse, as the peaks and troughs of amplitude spin "past" us.

Others though must be generated by pulsing within the star, of some sort that may well yet be puzzling. In any case stars come in sorts of flavours and ages so between them exhibit all sorts of electromagnetic behaviour, from radio via heat and light to gamma radiation.

Lots of massive, beautiful physics in action at huge scale, and meanwhile we can enjoy the aural effects created by converting the radio waves received by the radio-telescopes, to sound, by methods not unlike those of an ordinary terrestrial radio broadcast.

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