"God particle signal is simulated as sound"

By Pallab Ghosh
Science correspondent, BBC News


Highlights: "The process of converting scientific data into sounds is called sonification."

"The aim is to give physicists at the LHC another way to analyse their data. The sonification team believes that ears are better suited than eyes to pick out the subtle changes that might indicate the detection of a new particle."

"We can hear clear structures in the sound, almost as if they had been composed. They seem to tell a little story all to themselves. They're so dynamic and shifting all the time, it does sound like a lot of the music that you hear in contemporary composition"

hoped the particle collisions at Cern would "reveal something new and something important about the nature of the Universe".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10385675