# can you imagine the sound of the universe?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 20, 2003, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-imagine-the-sound-of-the-universe/189812 "2003-07-20T23:35:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-imagine-the-sound-of-the-universe/189812/21 "2003-07-21T14:09:08Z")

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What is this 1420 Hz noise? You’re not talking about the Hydrogen spin-flip transition at 1420 MHz, are you?

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**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-imagine-the-sound-of-the-universe/189812/22 "2003-07-21T17:13:14Z")

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> \*Originally posted by amoeba \*  
> \*\*Can you imagine the sound of the universe?
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> if so, what sound did it make? can you descibe it? \*\*

I had it; it was right on the tip of my tongue.

And then that stupid tree fell in the forest and disrupted my chain of thought.

Did anybody else hear it?

😃

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**Author:** ![amoeba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@amoeba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amoeba)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-imagine-the-sound-of-the-universe/189812/23 "2003-07-21T18:23:22Z")

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(to no-one in particular) If I said ‘sweet jesus’ would you then concur that I am of a christian persuasion? Well, if you did, then you might be surprised to find out that I was, In fact, touting my new line of ‘iced lolly’. Lick your favorite representation of the popular ‘messiah on a stick’ and shout: ‘_sweet jesus_’.

(to the viewing community)In other words, the question relates to what you want, or what you have, so all interpretations are valid: you call the shots.

(to a universe, as we know it) now, light travels through the realm we call space, but what of sound? There is a place on this planet where many dish shaped objects exist, and they are pointed at the stars. What are they listening for, and at what frequency? Do the sounds of Earth actually breach the ‘stratosphere’?

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**Author:** ![criminalcatalog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@criminalcatalog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/criminalcatalog)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-imagine-the-sound-of-the-universe/189812/24 "2003-07-21T18:44:36Z")

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"KA-BLOOEY! doink doink doink KER SPLOOOSH! DING! splat sploink BING! Frrrrrrrishhhhhhhhhhhhh… beep.

…that’s it.

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**Author:** ![mascaroni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@mascaroni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mascaroni)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-imagine-the-sound-of-the-universe/189812/25 "2003-07-21T18:48:25Z")

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Pink Noise.  
And the noise us lot on Earth make.

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**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2003, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-imagine-the-sound-of-the-universe/189812/26 "2003-07-21T18:51:11Z")

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This garden universe vibrates complete.  
Some, we get a sound so sweet.

Vibrations reach on up on to become light,  
then through gamma out of sight.

Between the eyes and ears there lie the sounds of colour  
and the light of a sigh.

And to hear the sun, what a thing to believe,  
that it’s all around if you could but perceive.

To know ultra violet, infra red and x-rays.  
Beauty to find in so many ways.

Two notes of the chord that’s our full scope.  
But to reach the chord is our lives hope.

And to name the chord is important to some.  
So, they give it a word and the word is…

Aum…

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