Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Acoustic Solar Concerts, $1,000,000

I know at least one person who ought to appreciate this: our sun makes music. It's not a new idea, and even if we could get seats to the concert we wouldn't be able to hear it (now there's an idea for an alien race with different hearing frequency though..), but it's neat to see an instance of proof. Basically (in case anyone in really as interested as I am) small flares on the sun's surface disturb magnetic loops in a manner similar to, so the article claims, plucking a guitar string. The article goes into more detail than I've bothered here.

I'm going to keep those concert-going alients in mind, though... I like the picture of large arenas set up around a star. I wonder how expensive the tickets would be.

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