As usual we have the village idiots jeering at the side and throwing stones for saying the earth was not flat
And as usual Dr. Swamy has helped us understand Hinduism and the world around us much better. Full marks to Dr. Swamy for bringing this to our notice.
The sound of the sun was considered by most ancient religions as the most sacred sound of the universe. It is a sound that cannot be heard by the human ear, because the human ear only hears between 20-20,000 Hertz. The sound of the sun is much lower in frequency and also much higher in frequency than we can hear.
NASA has recorded the actual sound of the sun in deep space and compressed the inaudible waves so that human ears can hear it. If we listen to this sound, we can hear and feel a deep vibration. The sound of the sun recorded by NASA is precisely as the ancient Hindus had described it in the Vedas thousands of years ago. It is a mantra that can be intoned with human speech as “OM.”
“Aum or Om is considered to be the primordial sound of creation and it is thought that all language emanates from this initial sound vibration. All Sanskrit mantras in Hinduism begin with Om, and a meditating yogi may attest to the power of Om in even a short matter of time. Chanting Om is said to activate the entire nervous system, all of our chakras, as well as our subtle and physical bodies. After some time of working with Om, it is quite common to ‘hear’ Om all around us–in nature, in inanimate objects, in people when they speak.
The Solar Oscillations Investigation (SOI) by NASA uses the Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI), one of twelve Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) instruments. MDI has the highest spatial resolution of the three helioseismology instruments on SOHO. SOI/MDI probes the interior of the Sun by measuring the photospheric manifestations of solar oscillations. Characteristics of the acoustic wave modes reveal the static and dynamic properties of the solar convection zone and interior core. Knowledge of these properties will improve our understanding of the solar cycle and of stellar evolution. Other SOI/MDI photospheric observations will contribute to our knowledge of the solar magnetic field and surface motions.
Sun Sounds generated from MDI data:
These are solar sounds generated from 40 days of Michelson Doppler Imager data and processed by A. Kosovichev.
The procedure he used for generating these sounds was the following. He started with doppler velocity data, averaged over the solar disk, so that only modes of low angular degree (l = 0, 1, 2) remained. Subsequent processing removed the spacecraft motion effects, instrument tuning, and some spurious points. Then Kosovichev filtered the data at about 3 mHz to select clean sound waves (and not supergranulation and instrumental noise). Finally, he interpolated over the missing data and scaled the data (speeded it up a factor 42,000 to bring it into the audible human-hearing range (kHz))."
The result sounded like "OM", just like the Hindus predicted