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In sci.physics.relativity, Tristan Beeline
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 wrote
on 11 Jun 2005 23:05:55 -0700
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> I wonder if light sounds like good music , Bach or Wagner for example
> or if it sounds like Michael Jackson or if it's just noise.
>
> Did you ever listen to light ? Do photons sing? Do they dance ?
>
> Questions, questions, questions ...

This thrad could get extremely silly:

http://www.quarkdance.org

Regrettably, the quarks won't let the leptons and the
bosons into their dance party... :-)  (Light quanta --
photons -- are integral spin, and therefore bosons.)

On a more serious note, recall what sound *is*.  A light
(or radio, or gamma) wave is an electromagnetic disturbance,
which probably cannot be sensed by humans directly
except through the eyeball if it's in a relatively narrow
frequency range.  A sound wave is a longitudinal compression
wave through the air (for the most part where we are concerned,
although solids and liquids can also transmit sound).

And of course, we can transmit radio waves of just about
any sound desired, up to a point.  So the short answer is "all
of the above..."

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