Comments on: Cosmic Radio Noise Booms Six Times Louder Than Expected

By: timmay

timmay — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 09:45:46 +0000

"Why don't we just take it for what it is? It is a sound 6 times greater than we have ever discovered. What my question is?

Could it be the Horn of Gabriel?"

Answer: Umm…no.

Its a frequency. Very pervasive.
Could be the 'noise' made by supermassive
black holes?
Early galaxies birthing sound?

Or just a really big P.A. somewhere?

By: Jomark Osabel

Jomark Osabel — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:10:46 +0000

Or perhaps some life forms in other galaxy are having a big party with big boom box

By: Mem(Brain)

Mem(Brain) — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:09:04 +0000

I think death nears.

By: Raven

Raven — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:44:45 +0000

I thought this was a serious topic? Also, it's not really a "sound" as sound doesn't travel well in space. It's the detection of radio waves which represent a "boom". However, I think my theory might be possible. I'd just like an experts take on it.

By: Liquid Memory

Liquid Memory — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:11:07 +0000

Why don't we just take it for what it is? It is a sound 6 times greater than we have ever discovered. What my question is?

Could it be the Horn of Gabriel?

By: besidomentis

besidomentis — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:34:22 +0000

Well this picture shows that amazing thinks happining in center of our galaxy: http://www.part.lt/p-19f3ec3eb0570503c5022a66ca47ce35649.bmp

By: Raven

Raven — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:49:01 +0000

I have read vastly into the theories of the Big bang. Did anyone ever notice when an atomic bomb goes off, it vaporizes everything in it's path. The blast also also travels in two directions… out as well as inward again. If you put into persepective the size of the explosion the Big Bang would have had to be, can there be something other then simple vaporization at it's origin point? I mean, could this "boom" be caused from the results of an explosion of this magnitude? No one really knows for sure. But it would be interesting if this was what the source was.

By: Vanamonde

Vanamonde — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 03:50:41 +0000

So there may have been a time when young galaxies were all so close, they touch.

And later, we find massive black holes seem to pre-exist before galaxies…

Maybe source is the first generation of galactic seeding black holes being formed?

By: Tjips

Tjips — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 22:08:40 +0000

Firstly, "the noise was six times louder than expected" implies that the measurement in question had never been made before (probably not at that sensitivity). It doesn't imply that the boom is very loud, only that it is six times louder than expected. Same that a carbon atom is bigger than a hydrogen atom while at the same time still being small.

BTW I like the hitchhiker's guide reference (Disaster area)

Also, just for accuracy Dark Matter isn't matter as we are used to thinking of matter i.e. it isn't made up of protons, neutrons and electrons, it is made up of something entirely different (proof of this comes from measurements of Deuterium abundance in the universe). This doesn't mean that it can't be the source of the boom, but it does mean it isn't necessarily compliant to E=mc^2.

For some good insights into the what's and how's of dark matter and dark energy, check out Astronomy Today (The book, not a website). It puts things in perspective.

By: fats mcgoo IV

fats mcgoo IV — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:22:23 +0000

Oh, and have a MERRY WEB BOT CHRISTMAS.
From Portuus….the super-grey alien

By: fats mcgoo IV

fats mcgoo IV — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:21:28 +0000

10xcsn, The new super-nova do-daah.
Whats a macall it. Built by the aliens of Beta-Centari.
Portuus the super grey alien is hitting a noober ball with his
Jack over sticks.
Gaaaapoo.
Thanks hello, good-bye please and turn off the ice creme machine in Beta-Centari

By: Felix Shrodinger

Felix Shrodinger — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:03:26 +0000

It's the sound of the cosmic clock ticking:
http://www.toequest.com/forum/toe-theory-articles/3578-the-dance-shiva.html

By: Jon Hanford

Jon Hanford — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:34:18 +0000

This is a perfect example of a serendipitous observation that confronts all of the sciences at one time or another . Discovery of the CMB by Bell scientists, extrasolar GRBs discovered by the DODs' Vela satellites & the dual, independent discoveries of Dark Energy immediately come to mind when considering an unexpected result unanticipated by the majority of the professional scientific community. I feel privileged to be born at time when scientific discoveries come fast and furious especially due to the transformation and sharing of crucial data via the World Wide Web & other IT applications. Definitely we live in an era when the dissemination of knowledge travels at the speed of electrons & now photons. The pertinent question now is where do we go from here?

By: Eric Near Buffalo

Eric Near Buffalo — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:04:55 +0000

@ Identity4

I figured it would have been from a Dimmu Borgir, Venom or Mayhem concert.

Dang.

By: Identity4

Identity4 — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:59:02 +0000

@Peter: Probably just aftershocks from the last Disaster Area concert. It should fade in a few hundred years.

By: Prime

Prime — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:39:32 +0000

This just shows that energy flows from a high level, such as gamma ray bursts, and cosmic rays, on down to tired light, cosmic microwave background radiation, and finally radio static.

Prime

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:25:47 +0000

So how exactly, have we missed this BOOMING noise up until now? We have VLA's of radio telescopes and they have never tuned into the right wavelength???
Booming eh? Intergalactic Rock station?
Does it boom to a decent beat?

By: Helio George

Helio George — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:57:44 +0000

Cool! Noise doesn't get much better than this!

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:16:29 +0000

If matter =energy then is this 'dark energy'?

By: robbb

robbb — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:16:52 +0000

agree with first poster. i love these little mysteries. they fill the mind with possibilities.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:00:35 +0000

LLDIAZ…that was my first thought too. The dark matter halo's could be doing this….but I have always heard that this stuff is pretty inert, doesn't interact with other matter. Hard to believe it would be broadcasting in Radio waves and we never noticed that before.

But they could be observing something totally new.

By: Jim Krug

Jim Krug — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:47:18 +0000

Maybe this is the long-missing radio transmissions from other advanced civilizations that the SETI program has been supposedly searching for all this time.

JIm

By: LLDIAZ

LLDIAZ — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:18:22 +0000

"radio galaxies would have to be packed "into the universe like sardines," he said. "There wouldn't be any space left between one galaxy and the next."

Wouldn't dark matter play a role here in filling in that space between galaxies so that the same affect would take place as if we were packed next to eachother?
Just a thought!

By: xaos

xaos — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:51:54 +0000

"and the scientists are sure there isn't more radio sources than we expect"

should be:

"and the scientists are sure there aren't more radio sources than we expect"

By: Nancy Atkinson

Nancy Atkinson — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:54:18 +0000

Sorry — the conversion to meters error was my fault. Its been corrected.