Simulating the Electroweak Phase Transition: Sonification of Bubble
  Nucleation
  As an applicaton of sonification, a simulation of the early universe was
developed to portray a phase transition that occurred shortly after the Big
Bang. The Standard Model of particle physics postulates that a hypothetical
particle, the Higgs boson, is responsible for the breaking of the symmetry
between the electromagnetic force and the weak force. This phase transition may
have been responsible for triggering Baryogenesis, the generation of an
abundance of matter over anti-matter. This hypothesis is known as Electroweak
Baryogenesis. In this simulation, aspects of bubble nucleation in Standard
Model Electroweak Baryogenesis were examined and modeled using Mathematica, and
sonified using SuperCollider3. The resulting simulation, which has been used
for pedagogical purposes by one of the authors, suggests interesting
possibilities for the integration of science and aesthetics as well as auditory
perception. The sonification component in particular also had the unexpected
benefit of being useful in debugging the Mathematica code.
