2006-07-05 16:26:43 · 27 answers · asked by Nightwalker 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
no bcoz the motor of the vacuum is very noisy. lol!
2006-07-05 16:48:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The answers thus far are unsatisfactoy, so I'm taking time to clarify: While it is true that in an ABSOLUTE vacuum there would be no sound, such a vacuun is nearly impossible to create. All that man has actually accompished in most of his attempts have been momentary periods where that qualifies. Our domestic vacuums, no matter how powerful only create pressure differentials that allow for the suction. But yes, if in an absolute vacuum, you would hear nothing otherwise it would be muffled, but faintly or barely audible.
2006-07-05 16:44:43 · answer #2 · answered by cherodman4u 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sound is a series of compression waves that moves through air or other materials. These sound waves are created by the vibration of some object, like a radio loudspeaker. The waves are detected when they cause a detector to vibrate. Your eardrum vibrates from sound waves to allow you to sense them. Sound has the standard characteristics of any waveform.
Because sound is the vibration of matter, it does not travel through a vacuum or in outer space. When you see movies or TV shows about battles in outer space, you should only be able to see an explosion but not hear it. The sounds are added for dramatic effect.
2006-07-05 16:32:08 · answer #3 · answered by jozfviktor 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No- sound does not travel in a vacuum. Nor am I able to survive in a vacuum and cannot possibily hear something that does not exist..
2006-07-05 16:34:19 · answer #4 · answered by dudette 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no for several reasons, the first being the internal of your ear would be mush higher then the outer, therefor the tympanic membrane would not vibrate and no sound would be received. The transmission of sound waves also require air to travel, a vacuum has none.
2006-07-05 16:32:07 · answer #5 · answered by john e 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
For two reasons.
One: Sound transmission requires some type of matter to be transmitted. We usually hear soundwave transmitted through air. A vacuum contains no air, so no sound.
Two: If you were in a vacuum, you would be dead. If you are dead, how can you hear?
2006-07-05 16:31:56 · answer #6 · answered by manofadvntr 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you were in a vacuum, you would also be dead. But what the others said also applies; there is no medium to carry the sound.
2006-07-05 16:31:07 · answer #7 · answered by moviesauce 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO, in a vacuum there is nothing to carry the sound
2006-07-05 16:30:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, you wouldn't be necessarily dead from asphyxiation per se. Your lungs and every other internal organ would be sucked out through any orifice they could. Every bone in your body would be crushed and you ould implode like an aluminum can being stepped on. Hearing someone (who's organs where also being sucked out) would be the least of your problems.
2006-07-05 17:21:11 · answer #9 · answered by r s 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no because something has to vibrate to make sound and when you talk you vibrate air and in a vacuum there is no air- plus your body would explode in a vacuum
2006-07-05 16:30:39 · answer #10 · answered by CLBH 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Vacuums absorb all things...including sound....black holes are vacuums....not even light can escape from them.
2006-07-05 16:38:36 · answer #11 · answered by evildunsparce@verizon.net 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋