EXCERPT In January of 2009, scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center announced receiving transmissions of an unexpected and unexplained cosmic sound. The NASA team’s huge, balloon-like satellite, which is immersed in approximately 500 gallons of ultra-cold liquid helium, was originally launched in 2006, ascending some 120,000 feet into the atmosphere, where it was to detect subtle heat emissions from very early star formations. Instead, it became a receptacle for a kind of cosmic sub-bass…