Physicist Lily Asquith recently wrote an interesting and accessible piece on quarks, which was featured on Jon Butterworth’s excellent Life and Physics blog. Included within the post was an interesting depiction of physicist Murray Gell-Mann, as provided by illustrator and artist Toya Walker. Toya also happens to be the individual behind the imaginative and colourful imagery associated with the … Continue reading »
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Playing in the Key of Science
An Interview With Jeff Oster After discovering the LHC sound project last year I’ve been on the look out for artists who have taken these sounds and used them to make music. So recently I was very excited when I came across a track called “Particles of God“ because not only did it feature these bizarre … Continue reading »
The Sounds of Science #01
LHC Sound Project In the first episode I explore the work scientists have been doing to turn the data from the Large Hadron Collider at Cern into sound. Through a process known as ‘sonification’ – data from the ATLAS experiment at CERN can be transformed into sound, providing an insight into what the elusive Higgs … Continue reading »