How you represent visual data can be entirely arbitrary too.
Our ranges of audio and visual perception are themselves arbitrary. That's just a biological limitation that we need to work around in order to gain understanding.
Audio is a good way of representing phenomena with frequency*amplitude data. Visual representations of such things are counter-intuitive for most, and depending on your sample rate probably lose\destroy/misrepresent data. Most people could not tell a Beatles tune from a Bob Marley tune if you ask them to compare graphs of the sonic data, but could instantly tell one from the other if you played them.
Lots of astronomical audio isn't even transposed and we can hear it just fine. E.g. gravitational waves exist within the frequency range of human hearing, various radio sources are wide spectrum and can be accurately represented with bursts of filtered white noise.
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Our ranges of audio and visual perception are themselves arbitrary. That's just a biological limitation that we need to work around in order to gain understanding.
Audio is a good way of representing phenomena with frequency*amplitude data. Visual representations of such things are counter-intuitive for most, and depending on your sample rate probably lose\destroy/misrepresent data. Most people could not tell a Beatles tune from a Bob Marley tune if you ask them to compare graphs of the sonic data, but could instantly tell one from the other if you played them.
Lots of astronomical audio isn't even transposed and we can hear it just fine. E.g. gravitational waves exist within the frequency range of human hearing, various radio sources are wide spectrum and can be accurately represented with bursts of filtered white noise.
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We can’t hear gravitational waves ‘just fine,’ fool
They have minuscule amplitudes less than the width of a proton, and took hyperprecise lasers and billions of dollars to directly detect in a single instance. Next you’ll be saying you see higgs bosons on your way to poundland
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They have minuscule amplitudes less than the width of a proton, and took hyperprecise lasers and billions of dollars to directly detect in a single instance. Next you’ll be saying you see higgs bosons on your way to poundland
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