Well oops... looks like the last time I posted was almost two months ago. And I had such big plans! Oh well. There are five word documents on my computer with material to post, yet I didn't. Hmmmm. This blog was supposed to be very interesting, but I promptly stopped paying attention to it. Sounds just like my twitter account...
Just yesterday I was trolling the internet (as usual) and stumbled across the 'Bloop' sound. This sound was detected in 1997 by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. To this day, the origins remain unknown. The sound was traced to a remote point off of the Southern tip of Africa. The sound rises rapidly in frequency and has an amplitude powerful enough to be heard over 5000 km away. I was particularly interested in this because I am reading H.P. Lovecraft's At The Mountains of Madness. Lovecraft's science fiction horror describes a group of researchers' discovery of an unfathomably old species and their mysterious and archaic city. The book is quite chilling. The species lived sleeping for millions of years at the depths of the ocean. Thus, when I read about the 'bloop,' I couldn't help but make the connection. Trying to imagine what caused the noise is fascinating to me. It could have been some ancient sea creature that has yet to be discovered, or perhaps moving of tectonic plates deep beneath the sea. Maybe it is the result of some extraterrestrial source. No matter what, the mysteries that the sea holds in its most remote locations are intriguing.
Here is a 16X accelerated version of the sound: youtube.
I hope to shed light on topics in Physics, Mathematics, and Engineering that are otherwise hard to find on the web.
