2006-07-09 17:16:17 · 6 answers · asked by joey.alex 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Not with any technology we can imagine today. The ancient light from distant galaxies has travelled unchanged through empty space for billions of years because it didn't strike any matter. The theory of relativity says that while a photon is travelling freely through space, time stands still for it and it can't change in any way until something stops it. The coliseum's roar was quickly degraded into random thermal motion of air molecules.A few seconds after it died down, it was irretrievable with today's technology. But if you asked me to guess, I'd say that one day, by some technology I can't even imagine, we'll be able to do it. A sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. W
2006-07-09 17:54:59 · answer #1 · answered by zee_prime 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I do not believe so. We are able to see ancient light from stars and galaxies because light or any other electromagnetic radiation can travel through a vacuum like space, but sound is projected through a medium such as air, water, solids, etc..., as are all other waves that are not electromagnetic in nature. This would lead me to believe that we, or someone else, could possibly pick up transmitted sounds such as radio waves, but there were no radio transmissions back at the time of the coliseum so I would have to say that we will never hear the roar.
2006-07-10 02:21:27 · answer #2 · answered by Thomas P 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know, but I do know that it is possible to intercept radio waves that have been bouncing around in space for a long time. For instance, I saw a documentary where these radiomen from Vietnam picked up transmissions made during WWII and it took them a minute to figure it out.
So it is almost the same, but not quite. :o)
2006-07-10 00:44:50 · answer #3 · answered by ... 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The sound, compression and rarefaction waves in the air, will die out after a very short period of time. Other energies in the air, wind, precipitation, absorption by objects like trees, bushes, etc., will disperse and alter the sound energies to the point they are no longer retrievable.
2006-07-10 00:48:25 · answer #4 · answered by wires 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No... The light that we see from space is so old because it came from so far away. Sound is generated right here and as far as I know, it travels at 300 miles per second or so and then dies out.
2006-07-10 00:19:52 · answer #5 · answered by hyperhealer3 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i wonder that made me think ... maybe in like another couple of 100 years...
2006-07-10 00:20:28 · answer #6 · answered by maxchica12 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋