The amount of data in an acre of ocean crashing to shore is mind-boggling. The patterns of seafoam, the rhythms and timing of the waves, the geometry of flow, the sounds and smells. It's absolutely befuddling

I wonder, do the radio waves and microwaves and whatnot that astronomers receive from space have similar layers and harmonics to the sound waves we hear on earth? And, can you hear two gamma bursts or whatever interfere with each other as their waves cross paths, the way that the sound from separate ocean waves interact on the shore?

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Radio waves and microwaves, yes, they work very much like ocean waves. Planets generate their own "sound" in radio waves. They amplify and cancel each other, all over the universe.
Gamma bursts are different, because they're charged particles.

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@ScottSoCal I figured it was something like that; thanks for taking the time. I think I'm going to rabbithole this a little further

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