Apparently, creating miniature black holes are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to applications for CERN’s massive Hadron Collider. CERN, aka the European Organization for Nuclear Research, recently posted a video featuring seven of its scientists and engineers performing a series of musical compositions based on the sonification of data obtained by four detectors during the Large Hadron Collider run from 2010-2013. The end result is, in essence, an auditory representation of the data amassed throughout the series of state-of-the-art experiments that led to CERN’s discovery of the elusive Higgs boson particle last year.It’s admittedly somewhat bizarre (and humorous) to see scientists in hard hats performing from the depths of these vast underground caverns that house some of the world’s most advanced, complex, and downright colossal technology. But, despite what you might expect, the resulting performance is a surprisingly gorgeous and soothing piece of music.The group has dubbed itself “LHChamber Music,” with the LHC standing for Large Hadron Collider. The style employed by the ensemble is chamber music, a musical form traditionally composed for a small group of instruments with just one performer to a part.The Geneva, Switzerland-based research organization explains in a press release that the performers featured in the video are, in fact, CERN researchers…. Read full this story
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