God particle signal is simulated as sound Scientists have
simulated the sounds set to be made by sub-atomic particles such
as the Higgs boson when they are produced at the Large Hadron
Collider. Their aim is to develop a means for physicists at Cern
to "listen to the data" and pick out the Higgs particle if and
when they finally detect it. Dr Lily Asquith modelled data from
the giant Atlas experiment at the LHC. She worked with sound
engineers to convert data expected from collisions at the LHC
into sounds. "If the energy is close to you, you will hear a low
pitch and if it's further away you hear a higher pitch," the
particle physicist told BBC News. "If it's lots of energy it
will be louder and if it's just a bit of energy it will be
quieter." The £6bn LHC machine on the Swiss-French border is
designed to shed light on fundamental questions in physics. It
is housed in a 27km-long circular tunnel, where thousands of
magnets steer beams of proton particles around the vast "ring".
At allotted points around the