Can you imagine being able to constantly hear everything that happens in the universe? Today, a team of researchers is bringing us a little closer to that reality. To do this, endowed the earth’s magnetic field with sound and if you are in Copenhagen you can listen to it.
If you don’t know how the Earth’s magnetic field works, It is a natural barrier that protects us from solar radiation.. This, being so intense, could have wiped out all life on Earth were it not for this shield. In the same way, the magnetic field also protects us from cosmic particles coming from outer space, which also pose a danger to many other bodies in the universe and are one of the main causes of the northern lights.
By converting the waves emitted by the Earth’s magnetic field into audible sound, scientists offer us a terrifying sound that you can now listen to. But that’s not all. In addition to being able to listen to it online, they also took him to Copenhagencapital of Denmark performance artistic in the city.
Earth’s magnetic field like you’ve never heard before
Scientists at the Danish Technical University have begun work on collecting magnetic signals from the Swarm satellites, with THIS ISand built by Astrium.
Swarm, on the other hand, is a set of three satellites equipped with many counters. Among them we find magnetometers and other types of sensors that allow us to collect information about large-scale terrestrial behavior. Later they are put into separate orbits, from where they plan to create the most detailed map of the Earth’s magnetic field up to date.
Thanks to the information received from the Swarm satellites, scientists have made efforts to translate these frequencies of the Earth’s magnetic field into audible work for humans. The result is as impressive as it is dark, and that is that they got an authentic chorus. crackling, thumping and guttural sounds which seem to come from an aeonic beast.
Bringing the sound of the magnetic field into people’s daily lives
Scientists and researchers are not satisfied with sharing these sounds exclusively on social media. Also, they also collaborated with musician Klaus Nielsen. turn the sound of the earth’s magnetic field into an art project accessible to all visitors to Copenhagen.
From October 24 to October 30, Nielsen and the researchers broadcast the sound of the Earth’s magnetic field into the city. To do this, they installed about 30 loudspeakers located in the basement of Solbjerg Square. From here passers-by they could hear the sound of our planetas if the Earth itself was whispering all its secrets to him.
We got access to an interesting sound system consisting of 30 speakers located underground under Solbjerg Square in Copenhagen.
The roar of the Earth’s magnetic field is accompanied by the idea of a geomagnetic storm that occurred on November 3, 2011, and sounds pretty daunting.
Claus Nielsen
Source: Hiper Textual
