What does the sun sound like?

Paul Schlyter wrote:
In article .com,
Radium wrote:

That would apply to any frequency: no matter how much it is
attenuated, it will still be above mathematical zero. However, when
the level has been attenuated below the molecular noise at the same
freuqnecy, it makes no practical difference if the level is slightly
above zero or not.....

With a sensitive enough receiver and detector, it is theoretically
possible to amplify sounds from below molecular noise to a level loud
enough for humans to perceive.


You can amplify as much as you want, that's not the problem. The
problem is that you then also amplify the noise - and how will you
distinguish the sound you want to hear from the much stronger
unwanted noise?

There are digital devices that recognize noise and can remove it.
However, current equipement is unable to go down such small dB. AFAIK,
even when the noise is removed, there are "bubbly" artifacts caused by
the software as it attempts to remove the noise. These artifacts sound
like donald duck.

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reconair wrote:

http://soi.stanford.edu/results/sounds.html

Since the... arranger? ... sped up the signal "a factor 42,000", I
think we must classify that as very low frequency data presented as
sound, rather than sound.