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The original cosmic hit #TEDTalks
What sound came after the Big Bang? Astronomer Mark Whittle takes us back to the infant cosmos, where massive sound waves pulsed through primordial gas in a pattern that’s still traceable across the universe today. Working with sound artist Ander Mikalson and composer Caroline Shaw, he turns those ancient tones into a glorious, awe-inspiring choral…
@Theadventuringphilosopher
October 12, 2026 at 3:55 pm
So the universe is a symphony of creation
@soulsistersam7
October 12, 2026 at 6:06 pm
❤🎹 Perfectly said…🎹♥️🙏🐬
@xObscureMars
October 13, 2026 at 6:13 pm
@Theadventuringphilosopher in an alternative universe Megalife is singing “Symphony of Creation”
@taswibislam524
October 14, 2026 at 10:56 am
Then there perhaps is an orchestrator
@Theadventuringphilosopher
October 14, 2026 at 11:44 am
@taswibislam524 some people believe that I do not
@taswibislam524
October 14, 2026 at 12:02 pm
@Theadventuringphilosopher❤
@fredolongas
October 12, 2026 at 8:39 pm
it’s like the beginning of that michael jackson song
@EnlightenedWhispers
October 12, 2026 at 10:59 pm
Strangely, this is exactly what I would have guessed it to sound like.
@Osimforensiccosmologyresea-o6c
October 13, 2026 at 11:07 am
One of the biggest killers in the cyclic universe hypothesis is entropy building up over time. To picture a way around this, imagine a glass of water poured onto a slightly tilted table so it forms a stream.
Think of that water as the universe, and the stream itself as dark matter holding the whole thing together. The tilt and gravity act like dark energy pushing the expansion forward. As the stream flows, it stretches thinner and thinner until a small droplet or piece finally snaps off from the main stream.
That smaller piece becomes the seed for a new Big Bang (a bounce). Since the total entropy is stretched across the entire length of the main stream, only a “Goldilocks” amount of entropy goes with that breaking-off droplet—just enough to trigger the next bounce, but low enough to keep it from getting stagnant.
@Beingbenzii
October 13, 2026 at 1:07 pm
Oh that sounds like the opening of smooth criminal
@WhiteNorthStar1
October 13, 2026 at 4:13 pm
So interesting and wonderful ❤❤❤
@xObscureMars
October 13, 2026 at 6:14 pm
In an alternative universe Megalife is singing “Symphony of Creation”
@pdisaslacker
October 13, 2026 at 7:49 pm
Sounds like a shot from the Death Star!
@LessMoreover
October 14, 2026 at 4:57 am
In a world with no ears comes no sound
@victorwait6949
October 14, 2026 at 8:15 am
If you listen closely you can still hear the cmb say … “You mase pooooes”
@Jude-gy9qu
October 14, 2026 at 12:50 pm
50 octaves lower? I didn’t think sound could go that low.
@bexxme
October 14, 2026 at 4:56 pm
Amazing isn’t it… to go down an octave you can basically divide by 2 infinitely
@asianslice
October 14, 2026 at 2:06 pm
There’s no sound in space
@bexxme
October 14, 2026 at 4:54 pm
A frequency 50 octaves below 20 Hz is approximately 0.0000000000000178 hertz. which corresponds to a wave period of roughly 1.78 million years