“Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power.” — Psalms 150:1, King James Version
In 2011, Pastor Louie Giglio played audio tapes containing sounds of heavenly bodies that had both rhythm and melody “to praise their Creator”, said Giglio during his interview at Christian Post after leaving the delegates at the Desiring God National Conference in Minnesota that night.
Giglio showed pictures of galaxies millions of light years away from us to show the unimaginable expanse of the universe. Pastor Louie was “perplexed why the universe is so big” and “it’s way too big if it’s a place just for you and me. It is oversized,” he said at the opening session of the three-day conference in Minneapolis, speaking on the yearly theme of Desiring God which entitled “Finish the Mission: For the Joy of All Peoples, Bringing the Gospel to the Unreached and Unengaged.” He is the founder of the Passion Movement.
Astronomers, he said, struggle with the purpose and function of the universe. But the universe, he added, “is doing what it is made to do… It is praising God in a staggering magnitude.”
The sound of the heavenly bodies is like a symphony when Pastor Louie started playing the tapes together “undoctored and unedited.” He used it to be a background sound while famous Christian music artist Christ Tomlin sang the song “How Great is Our God.”
Giglio points out the Book of Psalms about the sun, the moon, and the stars praising God. That was not just poetic, he said. “Stars also sing.”
“What blows my mind is that Scriptures says God spoke and the universe came into being… So God, by His voice, made a universe,” he said, adding that He is the one who is asking, “Who shall we send, and who will go for us? … He wants to know… The galaxy-breathing God would like to know.”
The sounds of the heavenly bodies
This year, astronomers use a wide range of analysis tools beyond images to visualize the beautiful images of the universe on a deeper level.
Through the process of data sonification which is the process of converting data into sound, astronomers can understand nature. This tool has powerful applications in research, education, and outreach. It can also enable blind and visually impaired communities to understand plots, images, and other data.
When a team of astronomers explores the universe with telescopes, they find it’s full of cataclysmic explosions including the supernova death of stars, mergers of black holes, neutron stars that create gravitational waves, and fast radio bursts.
The sounds of the two merging black holes and two neutron stars were caught on tape and recorded.
Here is an example of a video that shows the sound of the merger of two black holes.
This is the sound of the two neutron stars.
Astronomers are continuing the study of the secret of the universe and maybe we may expect good future advancement in the use of data sonification. By some other tools to input words of nature, we may discover the literal songs and praises of the heavenly objects and proclaim the glory of God as Psalms 19:1 (NIV) says, “For the director of music. A psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands.”
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