2007-05-17 12:25:37 · 12 answers · asked by Bob 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
In space, no-one can hear you explode
The sun is quite a good distance from the earth but most importantly it is separated by a great deal of vacuum. There is no gas between the sun and the earth to transmit the sound of the explosions and so we cannot hear them.
The sun being such a long way off, perhaps even if there WAS some sort of gaseous medium we might not be able to hear the explosions anyway (but they are BIG explosions so who knows).
2007-05-17 12:28:33 · answer #1 · answered by Orinoco 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Sound as we know it here on Earth, can be produced by the fact that an event causes air displacement. On the Sun there is no air and second, we are far away from the Sun that even if there was air in between us and the Sun, we could not hear the sound of it exploding.
2007-05-17 12:30:59 · answer #2 · answered by Marinho 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
All sound, including explosions, require something for it to move through, like air, water, etc.,. Between us and the sun their is nothing but empty space, so no sound from the sun can reach us.
2007-05-17 12:52:11 · answer #3 · answered by Chug-a-Lug 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
London has been moved to Mars? This is all part of the latest craze of: Give me your money otherwise you are doomed. Next thing, someone will tell us that the asteroid has weapons of mass destruction. You ask: How best to protect Earth from late detection of these new asteroids Stop detecting them, then we'll be protected from their detection. On a more serious note, there is already a project to build the next improved generation of asteroid detector : Pan-STARRS.
2016-05-22 00:38:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We can't hear them for two very different reasons ... 'sound' does not travel well in the 'vacuum' of space ... and even if it did, we are so far from the sun, and there is so much noise around us, that it would be 'far too faint' a noise to be 'noticeable.'
2007-05-17 12:38:23 · answer #5 · answered by Kris L 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In space, there is no material for the sound wave to propagate throught. Here on Earth, sound waves are able to travel through the air.
2007-05-17 12:29:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the space between the sun and the earth is a vaccuum. Sound does not travel at all through a vaccuum.
2007-05-17 13:23:05 · answer #7 · answered by roland m 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sound does not propagate through vacuum.
Solar mass ejections that arrive at Earth cause major hassles with satellites and power grids
2007-05-17 12:29:56 · answer #8 · answered by Uncle Al 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sound does not travel through a vacuum.
Sound travels as vibrations, in the form of waves - kind of like the ripples you see in a pool after you toss a rock in it. If you don't have a pool where you're tossing your rock, then you can hardly expect to see ripples, can you?
2007-05-17 12:34:11 · answer #9 · answered by Bramblyspam 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the earth is 149.6 millions of km from the sun and the many layars of the atmosphere make it hard for sound to travel though
2007-05-17 15:07:18 · answer #10 · answered by sierra-dawn L 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋