2007-07-12 08:08:44 · 7 answers · asked by Damski007 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
No. Sound can only travel in a medium. Hence the famous line, "In space, no one can hear you scream." The medium doesn't have to be air; sound waves can travel through other gases, through liquids, and even through solids. In fact, sound travels through steel more than ten times as fast as it travels through air. You can hear a distant train because the sound waves travel directly through the tracks.
2007-07-12 08:10:44 · answer #1 · answered by DavidK93 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well, the generic answer is no, and the real answer is indeed no if we're talking about a perfect vacuum with absolutely no atoms or other matter. Of course, even the deepest, emptiest parts of space aren't perfect vacuums, so there are "soundwaves" of sorts in the space between stars and galaxies. Of course, if you visited these areas and opened your ear to the vacuum (not advised for safety reasons), you wouldn't hear anything since hearing depends upon atoms actually hitting your ear, which due to the emptiness of space is not likely (but not impossible either). So, really, to the extent there are sound waves in space, they're really only sound waves to astronomers and cosmologists.
2007-07-12 17:44:48 · answer #2 · answered by DAG 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
mild propagation works on a distinctive state of affairs than sound. So happens because of the fact of molecular collisoin in a mass,whidh than is transmitted to air mollecular collision. The molecules push ewach different interior the comparable way electrons push one yet another.Our ear is sentitive fluctuation of rigidity variations at a definite spectrum which the ear can respond.
2016-12-10 10:08:57 · answer #3 · answered by meran 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Sound is formed of pressure waves which must have a material through which to travel. In empty space there is no such material and sound waves cannot travel.
2007-07-12 08:13:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Soundwaves are caused by the compression and rarefication of air or some other medium.
Think about that for a second.
2007-07-12 08:10:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
No, sound waves cannot travel in a vacuum.
Here are some websites to help you understand:
http://www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/vss/docs/space-environment/1-is-there-sound-in-space.html
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=605459
http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/ast99/ast99348.htm
2007-07-12 08:15:27 · answer #6 · answered by Science_Guy 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
absolutely not! the speed of sound in a vacuum is zero.
2007-07-12 17:36:44 · answer #7 · answered by deva 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋