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Re: (meteorobs) Sounds from Jupiter
Dear meteorobs,
If we are good scientists then we should not even call the signals which
NASA released "sounds from Jupiter." The audio they released is actually
from the radio signals created in the region of Jupiter by various
processes. But these signals never were sound until NASA created the sound
from the electromagnetic waves. Of course that is what we normally do with
radio waves on this planet and they give us a way of appreciating and
interpreting something that our senses alone cannot detect. But the sound
here is of our own creation. We could just as well use some algorithm to
change the radio signals into light.
Terry
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Terry Richardson
Department of Physics and Astronomy
College of Charleston
Charleston, SC 29424
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843 953-8071 phone
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Charleston, SC 29424
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