Listen to the Higgs Boson

While waiting for pictures from the Saturday concert: here's a different kind of music story. We've been neglecting music stories for the  garden beat, which is only one of our iCreate projects, and have our editorial eye out for interesting music and other personal creativity related stories. You can also follow iCreate on Facebook.


Researchers say they have "sonified" the data from the Atlas experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland, making it possible to "hear" the newly discovered Higgs Boson-like particle, dubbed the "God particle" by Nobel-prize winning physicist Leon Lederman.

The result is a melody which resembles the dotted rhythm of the habanera, a Cuban dance which became popular in Spain in the early 19th century.

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