Mike explains how pigeon-lovers Arno Penzius and Robert Wilson found evidence to prove the Big Bang. Find out about hisses, #starstuff, photons, poop, and more to get a full picture of what the universe actually sounds like.

-- Universe Sounds --

Big Bang Hiss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu7nKWa8hSM

Dawn Chorus
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/rbsp/news/emfisis-chorus.html#.VQj9FhDF880

Black hole
http://heasarc.nasa.gov/docs/xte/learning_center/listen.html

Sound of the Big Bang
http://faculty.washington.edu/jcramer/BBSound_2013.html

-- Sources --

You Can Still Hear the Hiss of the Big Bang
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/new_scientist/2014/03/big_bang_you_can_hear_the_afterglow_hiss_on_robert_wilson_s_cellphone.html

Listen to A Black Hole
http://heasarc.nasa.gov/docs/xte/learning_center/listen.html

Listening to the Big Bang – in high fidelity
http://www.washington.edu/news/2013/04/04/listening-to-the-big-bang-in-high-fidelity-audio/

Black Hole Sound Waves
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2003/09sep_blackholesounds/

The Nobel Prize in Physics 1978
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1978/

Sounds of Space: New ‘Chorus’ Recording By RBSP’s EMFISIS Instrument
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/rbsp/news/emfisis-chorus.html#.VQrq-xDF_lN

Nobel-prize winning accidents
http://www.physics.org/featuredetail.asp?id=71

Big Hiss Missed by Others
http://cosmictimes.gsfc.nasa.gov/online_edition/1965Cosmic/hiss.html

The Sound of the Big Bang
http://www.analogsf.com/0404/altview.shtml

Interpreting the ‘Song’ Of a Distant Black Hole
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/universe/black_hole_sound.html

The Sound of the Big Bang – Planck Version (2013)
http://faculty.washington.edu/jcramer/BBSound_2013.html

NASA Posts a Huge Library of Space Sounds, And You’re Free To Use Them
http://createdigitalmusic.com/2014/10/nasa-posts-huge-library-space-sounds-youre-free-use/

-- A previous version of this episode contained the following music --

Intro Music: Cosmos, Zu & Eugene Chadbourne, The Zu Side of the Chadbourne
Break #1: Ultime Cosmos, Lucien Dubuis Trio & Marc Ribot, Ultime Cosmos
Break #2: Three Modal Pieces: A Cosmos, Laurie Spiegel , Obsolete Systems
Break #3: Another Space Song, Failure, Fantastic Planet