Today it's my turn. My dad's Big Bang sound is all over this morning's news cycle. A commentor tells me that he was on the radio in the UK this morning. In addition to being in the New Scientist (and on the Aljezeera web site, as mentioned yesterday), the story of his sound has been picked up by the Telegraph (UK), Ananova, news.com.au (Australia), the National Post (Canada), EurekaAlert!, News 24 (South Africa), The Mirror (UK), The Australian, The Daily Telegraph (Australia), the Brisbane Courier Mail, and the Frankfurter Allgemeine (Germany).

If you then google John Cramer big bang to try to find his marvellous sound, the #2 listing (and the first actually about the sound) is my blog entry Daddy, what did the Big Bang sound like?

And HERE's the sound in question. (Since it's all over the news, you may not be able to get it. I woke him up and suggested he post mirror sites.)

NEW: Also mentioned on Slashdot.

The University of Washington's Nuclear Physics Laboratory's web site has received so much traffic from people trying to find the sound that it is unreachable. I was about to post it and supporting material on my web site, but thought better of it since no server on which I have space can really sustain the kind of traffic at issue. I can email people the sound, the Mathematica application and the supporting data. If you can't get through on the NPL site, ask for the files in the comments here, and I will send them to you.

The sound is now available through Kazza, a music filesharing site, thanks to Alex Randall:

Hi Kathryn,

I've made it available for those who use Kazza (which is a file sharing program).

All they have to do is type "BigBangSound - (c) John G. Cramer, 2003" (or any of those words) in the Kazza search engine to find it.

The more people that upload it, the more available it will become, which is the beauty of Kazza!

UPDATE: Here's a new URL for the Big Bang sound.

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