but it's not quite as we might have imagined it: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/science_and_environment/10385675.stmInteresting idea that. I think they are onto something when saying you can pick out changes better when listening than when looking down columns of figures. Maybe they could be shown as colors too.
Mr Endrich says that those who have been involved in the project have felt something akin to a religious experience while listening to the sounds.
I know what he means by this, but I'd have put it differently. I think religious awe is in fact akin to the feeling you can get from seeing/understanding some new facet of the universe. You can feel it when you grasp something for the first time even though it may be routine to everyone else. If you are among the first to find new knowledge that must feel even more wonderful.I think Pani has put it the right way round! Perhaps it's rarer, because you don't actually need to have understood a thing in order to have a "religious experience" whereas for a person to enjoy the moment of having grasped new or new-to-them concepts and information they generally have to think ...Definitely. With religion you have to leave behind your thinking head.
