sound in space

Greg87 · **Fri Feb 21, 2003 8:25 am**

i have no idea

Space is a vaccum and there is no air particles to make vibrations with...thats why there is no sound in space.

im so cleaver

Los · **Fri Feb 21, 2003 12:21 pm**

uh...

Yeah right. If you're so CLEVER, you would've picked up on what I'm talking about.

chakotay1 · **Sun Feb 23, 2003 4:24 pm**

how did yall go from talking about space to trees that do and don't make sounds while they are fall

ing

Los · **Sun Feb 23, 2003 4:59 pm**

The mind is a terrible thing to waste.

chakotay1 · **Sun Feb 23, 2003 5:01 pm**

depends on whose mind it is

Los · **Sun Feb 23, 2003 6:32 pm**

I RESENT THAT!

excel55 · **Thu Feb 27, 2003 7:08 pm**

I have an answer. Magic

Zeke Zabertini · Captain Joined: 13 Sep 2002 Posts: 4832

No, I'm sticking with 'effects'.

Matrix881 · Captain Joined: 19 Feb 2003 Posts: 520

I know, it'd be funny with no sound

webtaz99 · **Fri Nov 14, 2003 8:29 pm**

Serway...

When were you in space?

How much was the ticket?[/quote]

GhostOfAMemory · **Sun Nov 16, 2003 4:28 pm**

Tiberius · Lieutenant Joined: 03 Feb 2004 Posts: 140

Sound is a vibration in a medium, be it solid, liquid or gas. If you put your ear on one end of a metal rod and get someone to tap their keys against the other end, you will hear the sound because the keys make the rod vibrate, and this vibration is carried through the rod to your ear. In liquid, such as water, the same principle occurs, and the same again with gas, such as air.

However, the material the sound waves (the vibrations) are travelling through can affect the sound quality. That's why everything is muffled and "bloompy" when you hear it underwater. try it in the bath at home.

But sound does require some sort of matter for the waves to travel through. In space, there is no air or any other type of matter. (true, space is not completely empty. There is a very thin gas, but this gas is so thin there are only about ten atoms in every cubic centimeter. This is so thin as to be non-existant for all practical purposes, because when one atom vibrates, the nearest atom is still too far away to be vibrated by it, so the sound waves can't travel.) So why do the ships make whooshing sounds? In the book "The Making of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine", they say it's because they have very sensitive microphones. And I believe them.