i heard someone say they could hear a very faint buzzing coming from them, is it true?
2007-03-20 15:27:24 · 8 answers · asked by 22 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
It's still an open question. Some say they have heard the northern lights (aurora borealis). I am positive I have. It sounded like a crackling sound a little like the wind blowing against leaves. But there was no wind.
2007-03-20 15:38:29 · answer #1 · answered by Kid Fleetfoot 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If sound could travel from the the ionosphere to your ears, and if the northern lights were 250 times louder than a jet engine--even then the answer is still "no".
Your friend had too much to drink and that is called being buzzed.
2007-03-20 15:34:14 · answer #2 · answered by supercreditguru 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The northern lights are made up of plasma, which contains electricity. Because of this, it has some faint noise something like a static shock.
2007-03-20 17:16:07 · answer #3 · answered by The Ponderer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since the glow happens 10 to 20 miles up, it'd be difficult to understand how it could be heard. And sound instrumentation has never recorded any acustical energy associated with the northern lights.
Doug
2007-03-20 15:43:57 · answer #4 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the approach is amazingly reminiscent of the only that is going on in a family individuals individuals fluorescent lamp. interior the previous days with those 40 watt (4 ft) tubes, we used to take heed to the 'hum' of the choke and that sound have been given assocaited with it. With the CFLs (compact fluorescent lamps) we hear not something. Aurora is a purely atomic excitation phenomena and not acoustic. No air layers rub against one yet another like in a thunderclap. Even in any different case, we'd desire to continuously be waiting to cut up 'spontaneous luminiscence', 'fluorescence', 'acoustic' or another separately and not characteristic one for the different if many individual unconnected phenomena happen concurrently. that's the approach of technological awareness. in the different case that is delusion-making.
2016-10-19 05:24:20 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've seen them numerous times in northern Wisconsin......and I never heard anything, even deep in the quiet woods.
2007-03-20 15:30:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Audible sound, no, RF "noise" that could be detected by a receiver, probably.
2007-03-20 16:42:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
hmm...northern lights...no.. northern howls?, ive heard them up there to
2007-03-20 15:37:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋