What does a Star Wars battle actually sound like?
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- Опубликовано: 29 дек 2019
- Have you ever heard that explosions in space don't make a sound? When the Death Star from Star Wars explodes what would happen? Would you be able to hear it? And what would it actually sound like?
Well, explosions in space actually do make sounds, and in this video, we will explore it using a battle in Star Wars!
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Key Branches from this video are: Sound, Vacuums, Atmosphere, Star Wars
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Work Cited:
Cody's Lab "Sound of Explosions in Space? Part 1"
• Sound of Explosions in...
Note: Strange enough, there are very few scientific papers or articles on the effects of explosions in vacuums. People should remedy this and publish a paper on it.
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#StarWars #SoundInSpace #VacuumScience
Have you ever heard someone say "You can't hear explosions in outer space?" What do you think after watching this video?
Thank you so much for making this video. I've been getting frustrated for years trying to explain this to people.
Well, I was part of the 85 % but now I joined the smart 15% :D thank you! haha
@Red Dunkey what
Now I think they're wrong. 🤣
I think that the floor is made out of floor
I love that you have the answer on the thumbnail, respecting your audience's intelligence
I too love that
What does that have to do with respecting the audiences intelligence. By your logic, wouldn't it be more respectful to not make any assumptions.
What does that have to do with respecting the audiences intelligence. By your logic, wouldn't it be more respectful to not make any assumptions.
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Ahhh you've explained something so simply that I've tried to explain to ppl for years! Thank you!!
You're so welcome!
The movie 2001: A Space Odyssey does a great job illustrating sound travel through space particularly in scene where astronaut returns to spacecraft via airlock - sound gradually increases as air fills the airlock chamber.
Sound in space explanation: All ships, especially fighters would be equipped with Audio Awareness Systems, so pilots can hear what's happening around them.
External sensors (radar, cameras, radio), encode this data into sounds and play it back through an array of speakers surrounding the pilot.
So, if someone is shooting at you from the left, upper rear, you hear sounds that represent the weapon fire, and can react by turning to attack them, or run in the opposite direction, without having to look at a screen first. If movies were recorded in some future space battle, they'd most certainly include sounds generated by AAS to enhance the viewer's understanding of what's happening.
This. We have this in modern cars
I made this same comment without seeing yours... "Great minds" and all that.
So a jet flying by my side would be silent but one flying in front of me would be audible because the gases leaving the exhaust are hitting my ship?
Nice perspective!
Yes but no, jet engines don't work in a vacuum.
@@__Razer Aren't rockets propelled by jet engines (with their own oxidizer)?
@@PaulBlaise jet- and rocket engines do have a difference
@@puuaatu2856 yes, they carry their own oxidizer, but the principle behind the propulsion is the same, heat things up and use that chemical energy to pull those things back very hard, and for Newton's 3rd law, you know, moves forward
I think u should start a series of electronic components
U can explain all the electronics components in one series
There is no proper video or playlist in RUclips so u can start
You're correct. Soon I'll do a series on SSDs to fully explain how they work.
@@BranchEducation Maybe you could consider the difference between flash eeprom eprom and rom, thank you for this interesting video!
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@@MochironDesu Thanks(^o^)
Excellent video! Great explanation for this concept, which is possibly counter-intuitive for a lot of people.
And yet, my favorite part is the adorable little nudge at 2:55
There are 2 types of mic, one vibrate based on the material natural frequency and one based on pressure (which is the one you are referring here). Our ears has both principles to sense the sound.
So based on what you have explained, it makes sense to hear the sound, but might not sound the same as here on earth (from its amp and freq). Nevertheless, I would say that you will hear the plasma canon too based on your explanation - might not sound like pew pew tho 😅
This is a very interesting video, and I thank you for making it. I have one small question though. Would there not be a delay, albeit a little one, between seeing the explosion and then hearing it? The difference between the speed of sound and light being what it is. Yes, I realize the standard 340m/s doesn't apply here, but rather the "speed of explosion", but there would there still be a significant enough difference to perceive the delay?
He mentioned 500 m/s as the speed of the expanding gas. So, in shown distances (close ranged shootings) it would be almost instant. For death star explosion and far set camera, there would be a delay.
@@AgentFire0 close range shooting in space would be still at least 500 m away from the target so it should produce a noticeable 1 s delay
@@AgentFire0 500 m/s is not that fast especially considering the scale of space encounters in science-fiction. It's faster than sound in air at sea level, but an explosion half a kilometer away is a full 1 second travel time. You would definitely perceive a delay even if it were only 200 meters away.
I'm wondering if the blast has a frequency as it is not a regular wave but a blast. anyways the tone of the blast would be the specific frequency of the ship you're in
@@puuaatu2856 I don't think the blast could be said to have a frequency. An explosion can be thought of as a single wave of white noise, while in order to have a frequency the wave would have to repeat.
I think you're probably right about your hull ringing like a gong at its resonant frequency, though! To add, I wonder if different sized explosions or different impulses (fast boom versus slower boom) would sound different, or if they'd mostly all sound the same.
thank you for this informational video!
Thank you! Glad you liked it!
Wouldnt you also hear engine exhausts as you pass by behind? They would be sending out a stream of particles. Also we dont know how the different types of shields would affect the microphone.
Fantastic quality of explanation. Addresses concepts both thoroughly and simply.
it depends on distance. If the your ship was directly next to the exploding ship, you would be more likely to hear something
The exploding ship would release gases and technically sound could travel along with them. However, since space is a vacuum, these gases will spread out very rapidly and the density will drop off very fast with distance from the explosion. (If you think about it, the amount of air in the ship is probably not very large compared to the volume of space between two ships.) So by the time the explosion reached your ship nearby, any sounds carried by the gas would still be too faint to hear.
Waiting for this sound series to continue!! Thanks for the explanation
Thanks!!
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Nice explanation, but don't forget to mention that in this case, the firing lasers from the ships, the non-explosive impacts should also be heard, because even If it's a smaller scale, the cannons will get hot and release particles. depending of the concept used for the laser itself like the heated-gas/plasma laser (since we can see it "travelling" to the destination and exploding instead of instant contact and burn) those will be releasing particles that can be capted by "space-microphones" and if it's emiting light that also means those beans can be emitting atoms/particles right?
Thanks man .. as always great video
I like the detail that the ship avoided the letters in space
Nice, thanks for sharing, would love to see this version of Star Wars.
Beautiful explanation
thank you very much..... these videos are very helpful. Few more videos on sound please.
Thanks!! I'll loop around and get back to videos on sound eventually.
Nice Star Wars ship modeld. I hope to see them in another video
really fascinating
Also worthwhile to note is that 500 meters/second is 500 meters/second. The Falcon is about 35 meters long so unless the explosion has a much higher velocity (and it may or may not depending on what is going boom or simply escaping) you're going to hear these pops a second or so after the explosion.
I once read a paper about synthesising gunshot sounds (title was something along the lines of "procedural synthesis of gunshot sounds"). These simulated explosions sound similar to the anechoic waveforms described in the paper when I implemented the algorithms in PureData. Pretty-much just a click. You need to add reverberation to get something that sounds like what we typically think of as a gunshot sound. Seems explosions are similar.
Very knowledge
When i saw Interstellar movie and there was no explosion sound when Matt blew up, i thought there is a glitch in the movie like someone forgot to insert the 'boom' sound clip.. But then again, i wasn't really sure it was a glitch because in vacuum, there is no air. No air to move, no sound to be made and this video is a great example of that sound in space dilemma.
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Thanks!!
Thanks!! My 5 year old loves these videos.
Thos explosions sounds like slapping slippers on tiles 😂, btw thank you for giving us Excellent knowledge.
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Also, the other potential sound you might hear in a Star-Wars-space-battle-with-real-physics is a wind-buffeting-the-mic sound when thrust ports are aimed at the camera.
Pretty nice explanation! So, is it mean that Atari space invaders game-kind always has correct sounds? Cool! hahaha
That's what I always thought but couldn't explain as well as you, the ships have their own air to carry the sound waves!
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I always knew this answer but never told anyone or checked...but now i have been shown my own vision..nice
Oh my gosh, was that a Bellator-class Star Destroyer I saw around 2:50? That's fancy.
Oooh nice!
I thought it would say pew pew, pew.
Neat!
*I guessed all the theory correctly as soon as you show corrected StarWars sounds.*
Bonus points for Zenith reference, instantly transported to getting slimed on a game show
Mind blown X 100000000
Good video and interesting stuff. A somewhat related question, the beams shot between the space ships, why do I see those? If there is no matter, how can I see a beam of light (assuming it is not directed at me)? If there is matter, wouldn't it also shoot out particles behaving like sound?
Great set of questions! I think it depends on the intensity of the beam, but I'll do more research into it.
It's because the light does not need a medium to travel unlike sound so it can easily pass through vacuum.
Siddharth Nair yeah but it DOES need a medium to be reflected back into your eyes, unless it’s directed straight at you which will kill you before your brain can process the light 🤣
Those beams are likely plasma; space is usually too empty for there to be enough particles to reflect the light towards your eyes with any noticeable intensity.
Aparentally the projectiles in Star Wars aren't lasers, they're some sort of super heated gas or something.
so millennium falcons like to fly between two floating space letters
That's all well and good, but I think it's more likely that the reason the occupants of star wars space ships hear explosions is because a computer detects that there was an explosion and then plays a sound over the speaker system, and perhaps also does a bit of a vibration effect. Why? Because it would have a psychological effect on the crew which may aid in some way, similar to how vibration on a video game controller or haptics in your phone subtly enhance the experience of using those devices. For example, if the recipient of the sound is just walking through the corridors and can't see the space battle going on outside, hearing and feeling it may give them more situational awareness and thus motivate them to take action with a sense of urgency, if they might need to take cover because a hull breach may be imminent. If the recipient of the sound is actively engaged in the battle, i.e. operating a laser cannon or maneuvering the ship, creating a better sense of presence by piping in explosion sounds and vibrations may add to the realism of the moment and cause the recipient to fly better or fight better.
Furthermore, if the sound effects are directional in nature-- here I'm thinking not just explosions but the sound of another ship passing at speed, for example, the spatial direction could give the operator subtle clues about the relative locations and velocities of enemy ships that are more natural to a human than seeing it on a screen or out the window, and thus enable the pilot to use his ears and to sense vibrations to track enemy vessels in the heat of battle. This could lessen the cognitive load of having to track absolutely everything using vision only. It wouldn't be a huge advantage, to be sure, but maybe doing this might give just enough of an edge in space combat such that the pilot prevails over his enemies and perhaps brings his highly trained crew and highly expensive spaceship home, so even if it provides an advantage 1% of the time it would be worth the investment overall at the fleet level because they would have to build less ships and train less crew on an ongoing basis. There might even be a recruiting effect because pilots would probably like flying ships that have cool explosion sounds during battles more than boring old ships that don't have them.
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Wouldnt there be a delay between the explosion and the Sound though following the Speed of Sound?
In the case of vacuum, you could say that the molecules themselves carry along pressure a microphone picks up. The speed of sound would be dependent on how relatively fast do these molecules move with respect to the observer. If these molecules dont move relatively to the observer, they never reach you and you wouldnt hear anything, making the "speed of sound" zero.
The sound delay would just be how long it takes for these molecules to hit you.
You are most likely to not hear the sound, rather some small pressure on your spacesuit, which will be transferred to your ears by the air inside.
It will be more like a thump or low freq. almost breath-like blow.
If you are in a spececraft the sudden pressure will depend on speed (hopefully away) from the exploding object.
If the exploding object has no inner pressure of gases, its explosion won't make any sound.
A microphone around such exploding inner gases would most likely capture them as a low freq. fart or rather a guttural burp.
Thank you so much for making this video. I've been getting frustrated for years trying to explain this to people.
Glad to help!
The background music gave me flashbacks to the Sicilian War bruh
Who saw the video of the Electron staging from inside the S1 could hear the sound of the S2's engine lighting up, even though it was already in hard vacuum. The engine exaust provided enough air to propagate sound from the engine to the mic on the S1.
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2:05 - Are we sure those “lasers” are not plasma blasts or ion technobabble?
I always thought about that possibility but never give the credit.
You should have added more of a delay between when you saw the explosion and when you hear the sound since it needs time to travel. Excellent explanation otherwise 👍🏻👍🏻
Some years ago (during my physics bachelors course) I had this discussion and pointed exactly to these arguments. Everyone but the teacher just ignored them. Now I'm hunting contact info of 30 or so former classmates just to send a link to this video!
thing is, he's still wrong, sound - the noise - exists ONLY inside your head, there is no noise in the outside world at all, same with taste, smell and believe it or not colour - the universe is grey, colour ONLY exists inside heads. (how does redshift work if colour is in the light beam?)
Tie fighters are not pressurized ❤
More precisely: button click, humming of laser generator, very soft popping noise, and the most prominent sound would be that of the debris hitting the vital front energy shield. But the sound of the engine would make all these impossible to hear through the massive noise cancelling hearing protector you would most probably wear.
I think i get it. Rather than hearing the actual sound of the explosions what we would hear would be the shock wave. It is actually true that there is no sound in space but there are shock waves. I dont fully understand the difference but i know there is a distinction between the two. Otherwise, deflecting an incoming asteroid with a nuclear blast would be impossible.
Now, I may have gotten something wrong here. Though i do have an understanding of physics, i am certainly no scientist.
Now I need an explanation for the gravity in "Alien" movies, please
2: 06 they call that laser in star wars, but it probably isn't
My guess of what explosions in space would sound like was correct but I didn't know, lol. But shouldn't the sound shift based on the material of your own ship? Like hitting a barrel with a water-hose will make a different sound based on the material, shape and content of the barrel.
I guess the proper way of putting it would be "there are no sounds in a vacuum".
So there are indeed no sounds in space when space is a vacuum. But if an explosion (or any other process) releases particles, that could indeed make a sound, since those particles are, evidently, not a vacuum.
That's correct, there are a number of ways it can be stated. I've heard teachers also say there are no shock waves in a vacuum (inaccurate). I would love for someone to take this on as a research topic and publish findings, because I hypothesize that shock waves from something like a small firework could be more powerful/damaging in a vacuum without particles to dampen it.
I think it push magnetic line instead pushing air wave...that why microphone can charge phone and control other electronic device
In your example, gas molecules hit the microphone membrane, but this is a purely theoretical idea. In reality, the respective molecules will first hit other surfaces, they will vibrate according to the type of explosion molecule, the molecule-surface incidence angle, the type of surface, the surface temperature, etc.
Eventually the vibration of the cockpit's surface (and not the explosion molecules) will in turn generate vibrations of the gas molecules inside.
This is the only thing we can possibly hear.
Considering the blaster fire is super heated gas, if you were close enough to one of their bolts being fired. Could you hear it?
It would definitely have some affect if it passed by close enough even if it didnt hit
Cuz there's particles flying around. E.g. starwars space ships getting destroyed which is releasing sound cuz of the millions of Particles.
So, assuming that you could survive long enough to try, someone could hear you scream in space.
Yeah- MythBusters actually busted that myth.
As for the balloon..... Charle's Law 😅
sound travels in space as electromagnetic pulses
How do you take a balloon to outer space without it bursting on the way?
I loved the content but according to you when the substance creates its own medium, it can generate sound, so can we hear the explosions that take place on the surface of the sun?
The material that reaches the earth from the sun's atmosphere is so rarified that it would not carry enough energy to produce a noticeable sound.
yeah but the sound would be not as consistent as if you were on earth, you'd likely hear very distorted sounds or just simply not hear anything because there is just not enough gas for sound to travel anywhere.
...a balloon would expand and rupture before the pressure dropped to vacuum levels.
Why those explosion sounds have higher pitch in space than on Earth? On Earth, such big explosions have a lot more deeper sound (lower pitch) like BOOM! 💥🔥
I think it would sound like muffled vibrations like house of the dying sun
Did anyone else first think that was a microwave oven at the end instead of a TV?
It's an old TV. That's correct!
So, actually in this case, we are the ones that makes the sound?
Isn't it true that the "speed of sound" is a function of temperature? Since absolute zero really doesn't exist in the known universe "sound" will still technically exist. Whether it's detectable with available technology is another story but sound in theory still exists. Is that a correct conclusion?
Does this mean we would hear the sun explode
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Nolan Interstellar and Gravity are the only 2 movies reflect accurate physics
So if you fart in space... 🧐
Maybe it travel faster in space
you added the same sound to ANY explosion in the clip, no matter what distance to the camera it popped. thats misleading. you would only hear sound when you fly directly through the explosion
I think it may actually be cool if they used the physically accurate sound instead
I disagree. Air particles could travel through vacuum but they expands so wide apart the you'll barely hear it. Picture a bag of rice burst in the middle of a football field, by time it reaches the end of the field each grain of rice will be so far apart you could barely see it. So at close distance, yes there maybe sound, but in the dog fights I doubt a mic could pick it up.
You only say that is quiet not impossible to hear
@@YellowEvoV110 your point?
@@tomarnold7284 you dont fully disagree.
@@YellowEvoV110 I disagreed with the video because the "pop" sound carried the same volume at every short. The wide shot of the dog-fights shouldn't be the same as what one is hearing from inside a cockpit. The maker of the video wished to make a scientific point, yet failure to follow through with the demonstration.
@@tomarnold7284 well the its the point of the video isn't the amount of volume, it is if sound exists in a vacuum like you see on the thumbnail.
Who cares except you cares if the volume isnt right. It being too loud is just a minor detail which dont makes the whole video "wrong". The only failure you see here is your understanding.
You dont even know if your statement is even true. You haven't comfirmed yours as true so?
People rather trust a good educational channel than some nerd who states his "correct opinion".
I'm not going to read all the comments 'cause there are 80 of them
but is there anywhere where anyone defines "space"? The way I see it is
that if you define space as having NO particles in it then sound does
not travel through space. If an enclosed gas explodes then sound still
does not travel through space because space (as defined) no longer
exists. The sound is traveling through something that is no longer
"space". Have at me bro! I can take it.
Its a space, not actually vacuum.
Earth is in space, so we occupied! Did we not?
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I don't think StarWars version space is an exact vacumm since you know.. Space Whales..
Technically speaking, you still cannot hear in a vacuum, since during that moment you are not in a vacuum, you are being surrounded by air charged with kinetic energy.
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My balloon can't survive in vacuum no need to pop up 😂lol
Balloons can withstand vacuums. It just depends on the difference inside vs. out.
In space no one can hear you scream
A way can’t make sound in vacuum not means there’s no sound can exist in vacuum or the sound can’t through the vacuum.
BS the force is why spaceships make pew pew noises
Technically, "sound" is not an explosion or stream of particles that arrives from point A to point B but any actually transmitted sine wave that a gas carries from point A to point B. Much like a gravitational wave is NOT "gravity" travelling trough space but a distortion of space-time.
Now as to the simulated noise in the animation: the density of gas traveling outwards from the point of the explosion would - assuming perfect vacuum void of any baryonic particles already in it - would decrease to exponentially and would look something like (density: length):sq root of cube. Nerds correct me if I'm wrong. The "sound wave" would then arrive at the "microphone" as extremely diffused stream of gas which would be by all practical means silent. How many dBA minus we're talking about here would be in the 1*^ - some big number. And would sound much less than like an explosion and more like a sudden onset of steady noise of a "wind/jet" which would decrease over time.
And as far as movies/games go the most (imho) realistic noise of space combat comes from the latest Wolfenstein game where the protagonist fights nazis on the moon and just hears his own noises, muffled by the space suit. Or Cubric's famous movie: just no noise besides the protagonist himself.
In Star Wars, you would not be able to see the lasers
ship lasers you couldn't see, unless they were actually some type of plasma. But I actually think the Death star laser you could see from a side vantage, especially if the laser is close to a planet, where theres slightly more particles / cubic meter.
@@BranchEducation ok thanks