In space time the bang has already happened but only a few seconds ago. When lighteninig strikes in our atmosphere the bang
arrives sometime after proportional to the distance so! have we heard the bang from the big bang. Will such a bang be as destructive as the original explosion i.e. will the vibration follow through
2006-09-19 22:58:21 · 18 answers · asked by Redmonk 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Please do not have the idea that the words "Big Bang" is to be taken literally; it is not like the sound of an explosion. What happen was that there was a sudden shift in the equilibrium state and space was formed. What caused that is beyond the knowledge of the current scientifc theories and it is probable that classical physics as we know it may not apply to that state. With space came time as any existence of space carries with it the dimension of time. At that point the formation of the first matter started with the differentiation between the state of matter and antimatter and the laws of physics began to apply. The burst of energy at that point which must have been very very large as the formation of all matters in the universe was beginning was what caused scientist to named the phenomenon as the Big Bang. The energy in a lighning bolt cannot even be considered for measurement purpose when we compare it with the energy generated during the birth of the Universe. For that matter all the energy contained within this galaxy cannot be even measured up to that of the Big Bang.
2006-09-19 23:47:08 · answer #1 · answered by ancalagon2003 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the Big bang is happening it is only a theory - then it would have no sound as it is happening in nothingness ie. before the big bang there was no space and time beyond the initial particle that made up all the material of our universe. That material has and is exploding outwards forming what we perceive as our universe. This is in fact only a stage in the bang. The Big bang is happening now. As sound needs a medium to travel through there can be no sound as the medium the big bang is happening in is nothingness. As the explosion is happening at the moment you can not call it destructive as the universe was created by it.
2006-09-19 23:46:02 · answer #2 · answered by Aerroc 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sound is a mechanical wave and needs air to propagate. Therefore in space actually there is no air and thus no sound.
However you are not entirely wrong. The big bang like the lighting strike has spitted out a lot of electromagnetic energy and mass that we can "hear" very well if we listen with the right "ear" e.g. a microwave telescope. This "echoes" of the big bang are calle Cosmic Microwave Background(CMB) and are one of the many many evidence we have that the Big Bang actually took place.
A NASA's "Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP)" spacecraft mapped this background and has found out that it looks exactly as the Big Bang theory has predicted. For a more detailed explenation on the Big Bang a very good site is http://angryastronomer.blogspot.com/2006/07/big-bang-common-misconceptions.html .
2006-09-20 00:20:55 · answer #3 · answered by Sporadic 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As the sound would have carried further and faster than the matter expelled at the Bang, it would now be at the furthest limits of the universe, beyond everything else. But then again, space explosions don't make noise until they reach an environment which isn't a vacuum.
2006-09-20 00:30:36 · answer #4 · answered by Uncle Sid 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well as for the theory of the big bang...everything is a result of it, this whole universe...so this radiation along with the rest of the universe has been there since the begining. It didn't come from nothing...what could possibly come from nothing?? anyway, i believe there must have been a sound but it would have traveled throughout the universe in the instant the big bang happened due to the fact that all of the universe has was existing as potential and all the forces of the universe along with the waves of different frequency and amplitude originated from that one single spot.
2006-09-19 23:15:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Quote Stephen Hawkin "in spite of if time did no longer initiate with the vast Bang and there have been yet yet back-physique earlier the vast Bang, no training from activities then may well be attainable to us", that's often belived the the present form of "time" grew to become into in fact created with the aid of the vast bang, and all the earlier is meaningless There are numerous formulation, whos names i'm no longer able to bear in strategies, that define while time does and would not have meaning.
2016-10-15 05:07:36 · answer #6 · answered by valda 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like others have said sound doesn't travel in a vacuum, but the background radiation is there all the time, when you look at the static on an untuned TV about 10% of that is made up of background radiation from the big bang.
2006-09-19 23:11:54 · answer #7 · answered by strawman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think the description of the "big bang" as an explosion is correct.
It is a point when time and the 3 dimensional universe started and the contents of the universe appeared or unfolded.
2006-09-20 00:27:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Im not a physisist by any means but wouldn't the "noise" of the big bang not even exist because space is a vacume and sound can't travel in a vacum....
2006-09-19 23:01:05 · answer #9 · answered by crafty1980 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No sound from big bang(sound is compression of air), but Bell labs scientists have detected microwave radiations that resulted from big bang which can be detected anytime anywhere.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_microwave_background_radiation
2006-09-19 23:05:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋