flass Posted June 9, 2004 Share Posted June 9, 2004 What would the sun sound like if we could hear it? How loud would it be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atinymonkey Posted June 9, 2004 Share Posted June 9, 2004 Er, loud *kablamo* type noises I'd expect. Very loud. Louder than, say, a great many nuclear warheads exploding at once. Louder than the human ear would register, anyhow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aommaster Posted June 9, 2004 Share Posted June 9, 2004 Very loud. Louder than, say, a great many nuclear warheads exploding at once. I was told about 250 million! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted June 9, 2004 Share Posted June 9, 2004 Well, the sun basically is a gigantic nuclear fusion bomb, so I suppose you'd go deaf instantaneously if you heard it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tesseract Posted June 9, 2004 Share Posted June 9, 2004 Well, the sun basically is a gigantic nuclear fusion bomb, so I suppose you'd go deaf instantaneously if you heard it. So then technically you couldnt hear it anyway... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aommaster Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 I wonder whether the sound of the sun was ever measured! In decimels? What about a nuclear bomb? Was there ever a reading? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
admiral_ju00 Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Nwfaq/Nfaq5.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atinymonkey Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 I wonder whether the sound of the sun was ever measured! In decimels? It's in a vacuum' date=' and the surface is to hot for probes. So no. [url']http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Nwfaq/Nfaq5.html[/url] That link has nothing to do with the sound levels. Just to save everyones time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aommaster Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 Thanx atinymonkey, you saved my time. May the ninjas always be with you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgerlica Posted June 10, 2004 Share Posted June 10, 2004 What about RF emissions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
admiral_ju00 Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 That link has nothing to do with the sound levels. Just to save everyones time. well, no, but it does have some other interesting goodies on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ejwill83 Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 Maybe it is in-audible; well, at least to us. According to space.com, the noise that bounced around the universe 380,000 years after the Big Bang (granted the universe was much a 'small' dense gas cloud) has been identified and somewhere in the range of 57 octives below middle C. It is a debate whether we, as humans, can hear noise in space. We could, if our eardrums were sensitive enough to pick up the tiny vibrations created by the miniscule about of atoms in a space vacuum (compared, to say, under water). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ejwill83 Posted June 11, 2004 Share Posted June 11, 2004 Unless I am horribly, horribly wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Tycho?] Posted June 12, 2004 Share Posted June 12, 2004 Unless I am horribly, horribly wrong. Uh, Im pretty sure you are. Sounds travells by vibrations in molecules. The closer together these molecules are, the easier it is for the vibrations to move from one molecule to another. This is why sound travels further in water than in air. In space, there are so few atoms that even if they started to vibrate, they wouldn't touch another atom to transfer the vibrations to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted June 12, 2004 Share Posted June 12, 2004 Unless you suddenly created a cloud of gas, from, say, an explosion, and that carried the sound. It would carry it only a short distance, though, because it would quickly dissapate to the point where you can't hear it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qazibasit Posted July 3, 2004 Share Posted July 3, 2004 3000 G bell this is the sound intensity approximately on the sun we will die if we hear such a loud sound coz it would not only destroy our thympanic membrane but also will increase the tempreature of earth and we all will cogulate. AM I RIGHT AM I WRONG I AM DEAD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superstorm Posted July 4, 2004 Share Posted July 4, 2004 Now lets say we were able to go inside the convection zone and survive. There we would hear the sun in perfect harmony. But im guessing the sound blasts would be so loud it might as well kill us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superstorm Posted July 4, 2004 Share Posted July 4, 2004 Think of a billion billion nuclear warheads going off at the same time.. EVERY SECOND. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hagbard celine Posted July 4, 2004 Share Posted July 4, 2004 You need a medium for soundwaves to travel through, and space is a vacuum, yada yada yada... I'm sure the sun is emitting a ton of radio waves, so I guess you could listen to the static. You should check out the July 2004 issue of National Geographic. It's got some kickin photos of the sun. Also check out their website for a bunch of crap they put together on this. And here's what they say the big bang sounded like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest shaqarava Posted July 20, 2004 Share Posted July 20, 2004 Wouldn't our heads explode or implode or something unpleasant if we heard the sun close up? Oh, and the 50 second clip of the big bang sounds like my washing machine in the middle of the night Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cap'n Refsmmat Posted July 20, 2004 Share Posted July 20, 2004 I doubt that it'd explode, but your eardrums certainly would be blasted out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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