2007-02-06 02:29:52 · 9 answers · asked by sammnpm 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
You would not hear an explosion because there is no air ( a vacuum) between the Moon and the Earth. Your ears respond to vibrations in the air, which are transmitted to your ears by the air around you. If you were in a vacuum,( no air around you) and a tree fell near you , you would not be able to hear it, but you might feel the vibrations in the ground, which transmits the vibrations to your feet much the same way that air does to your ears. If you had earphones on, playing your favorite music, and there was no air(a vacuum) between it and your ear drums, you would not hear it, but you might feel it.
2007-02-06 03:03:08 · answer #1 · answered by 6.1fishbob 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Sound is transmitted through mechanical vibrations or rather say due to disturbance created in medium particlesbut because there is no air ( a vacuum) between the Moon and the Earth. Your ears respond to vibrations in the air, which are transmitted to your ears by the air around you. If you were in a vacuum,( no air around you) and a tree fell near you , you would not be able to hear it, but you might feel the vibrations in the ground, which transmits the vibrations to your feet much the same way that air does to your ears. If you had earphones on, playing your favorite music, and there was no air(a vacuum) between it and your ear drums, you would not hear it, but you might feel it.
2007-02-08 00:06:17 · answer #2 · answered by Harshit S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Moon has no atmosphere on its surface. Sound require some medium to travel through. So, explosion on the moon is not audible to us because sound on it can not travel due to the no atmosphere on it.
2007-02-06 02:50:27 · answer #3 · answered by lucky 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sound waves need a medium in which to propagate. The space between the earth and the moon is basically void.
2007-02-06 02:40:05 · answer #4 · answered by gebobs 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
lack of medium to carry sound wave from moon to earth
2007-02-09 06:03:31 · answer #5 · answered by gautam b 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all, there's no air or anything to carry the sound to us and secondly, even if there was, it's a quarter of a million miles away.
2007-02-06 02:41:44 · answer #6 · answered by Gene 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's because there's no medium to carry sound.
2007-02-08 04:30:13 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If they DO exist than it is because of the vacuum of space.
2007-02-06 02:37:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
May be the distance..
2007-02-06 02:36:57 · answer #9 · answered by Drone 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋