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Underground machines from CERN like the Large Hadron Collider are now making music through the disintegration of particles after high speed proton collisions. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images)
A new area of science has begun with recent music files produced by the Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire (CERN), which translates into the European Laboratory for Particle Physics. The research department at the CERN underground physics laboratory is making music through the disintegration of particles after high speed proton collisions.
New sonification technology is being utilized by physicists at CERN who are able to translate computer generated measurements that result after particle disintegration into sound. Underground machines from CERN’s LHC experiments are now a source for music that is being posted online, reported Reuters.
Scientists are manipulating particles that are being slammed into each other at lightning speeds allowing for the decomposition of the various particles that can be measured by super computers. LHC experiments consist of six experiments being conducted by physicists from 20 different countries.
The team responsible for the scientific music, named themselves The Sounds of Science. Music resulting from the project can be found at lhcsound.com.
“We want everyone to be able to share in the wonder and excitement of what we are doing, and this seems a good way of showing the awe-inspiring magnificence of it all,” physicist Lily Asquith told Reuters.
The team has a recording of the musical interpretation of the long debated “God particle.” The group is also planning to turn the music into ring tones for cell phones.
Stephen Reucoft from the Elementary Particle Physics Group at Northeastern University described the “God particle” as “hypothetical.” The idea behind the particle is that there is a substance that combines micro particles into macro particles that scientists are able to measure and record.
The “God particle” is also know as Higgs boson. The name Higgs boson relates to the Higgs field, which is a quantum field that is said to provide other particles the ability to form mass. The Higgs field is based on the Standard Model that is used by scientists who are exploring physics as well as the abstract world of quantum physics, or also known as quantum mechanics.
