Listening to the Power of a Star! What Would the Sun Sound Like if We Could Hear It From Earth?
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- According to the scientists who study the Sun, the surface, also known as the photosphere, is incredibly loud. So loud, in fact, that if space were full of air, for example, we would be able to hear it all the way from Earth! 93 million miles away! (which is 150 million kilometres!). And it wouldn't just be a gentle hum. We would hear the sound of chaos all day, every day. It would be so loud that we would need to wear ear protection! So what would happen if we could hear the Sun from Earth? What would it sound like? And how loud would it be? Let's look into this intriguing thought experiment a little further!
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This week I decided to make a video based on an intriguing thought experiment that I found online, which explores the incredible power of our star. So let's find out what the Sun would sound like if we could hear it from Earth! Warning! It isn't pleasant! Let me know what you think below. Have a great day! V
You're right, it isn't pleasant. Almost as bad as the nighty news broadcasts.
Tell me what the planets would smell like, taste. please
@@tenebrousoul9368 That is a fair question. ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Television has become such a big influence on how we think of the world around us, that we usually neglect to think about perceiving things using our other senses besides seeing and hearing. 💡
Are you a fan of the Science Fiction Parody show "Futurama"? In it, the mad scientist - like guy built a telescope to be pointed to outer space that lets the operator _smell_ the area being surveyed instead of seeing it. 😃
@@TheNoiseySpectator I miss Futurama. It was such a good show!
I did enjoy this video 😀.
I enjoyed it so much, that I am going to put even more work on your desk.😦
I would like to see a video about the _Percentages_ close to the speed of light one would need to travel before the forces of Einstein's Relativity would start to have really noticable effects.
At what %C would a traveler start to have problems with time speeding up for the rest of the Universe and things growing smaller and lighter for them?
Flipped around, If you could see into such a spaceship, when would it grow noticably larger and the passage of time inside slow down noticably?
I will make my already long message even longer by expanding on this;
When people create artificial elements greater than (I think 🤔) Plutonium, they will only exist for a few fractions of a second.
If people created them in a particle accelerator and wanted them to last for several seconds or even minutes, we could accelerate them to near the speed of light so those fractions of a second would equal a few minutes to us. 💨🕣
(As an added bonus, the element would also seem to us to grow in size, making it easier to study)
To about what percent the speed of light would we need to accelerate something to do that?
Thanks for your attention ☺️.
139 db: Loudest concert
140 db: Shοtgun
170 db: Hiroshima/Nagasaki from 100km away
172 db: Krakatoa volcanic explosion from 100 miles away
180 db: Average rocket launch
204 db: Saturn V rocket launch
230 db: Call of a spеrm whale (loudest living thing)
240-280 db: Atomic blast at epicenter
300 db: Tunguska meteor explosion
310 db: Krakatoa at epicenter (loudest known sound on Earth)
329 db: Sol
And decibels are logarithmic, too.
You should mention that sound scale measured in dB (decibels) is a logarythmic type. Every 3 dB the power output is doubled, so 329 dB is beyond imagination. Nevertheless in our atmosphere you cannot go beyond 194 dB. After that is stops being a sound and start to be a shockwave.
If the sun is loud just imagine what a red giant, super and hyper giants sound like if there was sound in space.
The difference between a pin drop and a raging jet engine 🤯
hah the sound of a Red Giant would much worse LOL since such sound from a star in red giant form would be even louder and even enties like god that would dwell in the stars of parallel universes would demand that we would keep our distance unless we want our ear drums crippled.
@@FLAME4564 lol IKR?
Or a supernova lol
Well, yes but remember those things are not just very, very far away, they are VERY *VERY* far away.
Sound does carry far when it is out in the open, but it also fades.
Imagine if the sun was like that planet on rock and morty where it rises and screams constantly for 72 hours straight
lol It basically would be if sound could travel through a vacuum. V
So another Rick & Morty fan 👍🏼😅
Just one missed detail: to have the Sun noise synchronized with its light, sound would have to travel... at the speed of light. Even with an imaginary medium as dense as steel, the speed if sound would be around a few km/s at best... meaning this imaginary putative sound would take years to arrive. So no real hope to enjoy any nocturnal relief in this fantasy universe.
Well yes, but since the Sun has been here since about 5 billion years or so, there would be no problem. Surely, for example a massive flare would produce its "extra" sound much later (listened from Earth, compared when you can see the flare from Earth), that's true, but you would be able to hear the "Sun sound" emitted a long time ago instead, still. So, as you've said "it wouldn't be synchronized", but still you would be able to hear some "Sun sound" anyway. But anyway, it's hardly a serious topic, as any medium helping sound to propagate would be a huge problem for Earth trying to orbit through ;)
@ First of all, the age of the sun is close to four and a half billion years, not five.
That sound like a minor distinction, but we are talking about numbers in the _billions_ here.
I doubt the sun changes so rapidly that the eight and a half minutes ago would make much difference.
Changes to the sun's noise would probably take a several hours to several weeks to shift.
Uh, no? The sound reaching us would be much older than the light. But the earth would still block that sound at night - just like it blocks light at night that is 8 minutes old. It doesn't matter when it started toward us - it's still sound and light when it reaches us.
You would probably hear it at night too. The sound would travel around the Earth
Is it really hard to imagine that the sun would be not only loud, but the loudest thing in our solar system by leaps and bounds!?
I, for one, am absolutely positive that the sun would be louder than anything else, maybe so much that you could not distinguish the sounds of any other celestial bodies unless you were very close to them, and / or they were one of the four biggest planets.
I bet the sounds of Saturn's rings would be very pretty. 😇
There's stars bigger than the sun so probably not
@@insertname9581 he said our solar system
I heard Uranus is pretty freakin loud
That the Sun makes a lot of noise is no surprise.. Its shining is actually produced by a continuous explosion that never stops.
Your videos are impressive as always! You never fail to impress us with your outstanding content!
I’ve been thinking about this recently and now this video. I feel like the universe is speaking to me
Cuckoo
I mean, you _are_ a part of the universe as much as any quark, atom, or star is. But just saying we're "part" of the universe is even a little misleading in my judgement, because it isn't just that you, me, and everyone on Earth are simply parts of one greater whole which we call "the universe". No, the reality is that you, who wondered about the workings of our star and who wrote the RUclips comment I'm replying to, *ARE* the universe.
In the most literal, tangible sense, *you ARE the universe.* You are a manifestation of a universe attempting to understand itself, and for all we know, and until we can prove otherwise, the intelligent life on this one planet, humanity, which came about after billions of years of evolution (starting with the very first single-celled organisms) on this small terrestrial planet, orbiting this one medium sized star, itself being just one out of billions in this one galaxy among countless others, could potentially be the furthest the universe has _ever gotten_ in understanding its nature. Think about that for a moment, and if you ever feel like your life is insignificant, try to remember it.
Tell the universe to tell me the lotto numbers for this weekend.
No, that's just the sun speaking to you.
According to this video, the universe is yelling at you, rather than speaking to you.
Very interesting and enjoyed it always. Watched it with my son tonight. We love your channel!
Awesome channel with awesome content and great quality as always say.
Keep it up🌍💯
It is neat when you apply real physics and science to determine the sound of the sun. Very educational as always.
Thank You very much Sir. It's being blessed to be part of such knowledgeable channel. And my kid's reaction on each of video is just awesome.
Its just amazing how everything is created. From creatures to space.
Imagine “everything works together” like the sun and its gases/plasma/hydrogen.. which just keeps replaying (suns surface) up/ down/up/down.
Then the placement of the sun to keep earth alive and give us heat and light…
Then you got the moon which gives us light at night and keeps the tidal waves intact…
Hard to explain. Its like someone with a great mind knew what to do, where to place, how to create, what “chemicals/ compositions” to use…..
Its amazing. To play it down, its like a phone wont work without a battery, battery wont work without electrical circuits… but this is space…
Thinking about his makes your head explode.
No, that is not so mind blowing to me, because as life developed on Earth, it evolved to take into account such a ballance of factors, not the other way around.
No, if you want what I call "Proof of God", look at the improbable coincidences that just happened to be the single way out of all the possibilities it could have turned out.
For example, the fact that the sun and the moon appear to be the exact same size in the sky, at this era in the Earth's history!
It was not like that millions of years before people existed, and in a few million more, the moon's orbit will drift far enough away from the Earth that an eclipse will not cover our view of the sun, from the Earth's surface!
Or, the fact that the moon orbits at the same rate it spins, so the same is always facing us. 😃
Another one Dr. Brian Grinspoon noted is that Venus's orbit is perfectly timed so that when it is at its closes to us, the same side is always facing the Earth.
I didn't see that as being so miraculous, but apparently he does.
True, BUT, remember this lucky planet is just one among a number I can't even say. The VAST MAJORITY have certainly failed in creating the perfect atmosphere and position in the universe to create life. So, just by sheer numbers there are bound to be places perfectly suited for life. Of course it feels amazing, but we are here because one planet hit all the right parameters. For sure, there are more out there.
@@dumdum3470 you got to be the most “dumbest” person to think. Earth is the only life form.
From what i read somewhere , i could be wrong. But they said there is over 2 million galaxies. We are in on galaxy…. Scary but awesome.
Dude Ik! It's insane how God just put everything so perfectly together. If anything was off ever so little, it would be over for us. He's in Control of it all! ☺️
Amazing content keep up the amazing work
Now I get the Rick and Monty gag with the screaming sun
Gives new meaning to blowing hot air
Great content like always. 👍💪
Cheers 🍻
This video is truly great !
Love your videos. High quality content and excellent narration and graphics.
Absolutely amazing 300+ db! that is just crazy numbers....a excellent view much appreciated Luv&Peace Cheers! from Sean & family
Excellent as usual!
Fantastic video
This was lovely, made me think outside of the box about mundaine things like... morning. Please do make similar videos, I'm happy to be your subscriber for so long.
The equivalent to the screaming sun off of Rick and Morty😂😂😂😂
Great content as usual thanks . Luckily for us there is vacuum so that the sound waves don't travel from the Sun . We suffer from man made noise pollution enough 🙂 . Found it funny when you called the convection cells grain like structures the size of Texas . 😁 . Just gives us an inkling of how huge the Sun is .
If we could hear the Sun, then evolution would have probably taken advantage of it for hearing sense, much like we have with vision.
We can’t stare at the sun though, so the noise would make us evolve NOT to have hearing.
@@oloatis2182 We didn't start out not being able to look at the sun. It only became that way once our vision was honed into extremely powerful directional vision with a strong ability to see things which are much darker. We can't stare at the sun now because it's too bright for our eyes' calibrated operational range. Many animals can stare at the sun; many others can't look away from it if they wanted to.
Another thought provoking video, and it's amazing our Sun is a baby compared with other Star's in our Universe such as Scuti and Stephenson, just imagine the acoustic sounds of these enormous Balls of Plasma, it would be mind blowing on a literal term.
Just thought I'd make you aware I'm not getting notifications of RUclips and have to look at my Subscription library?
Thanks V101 ⭐
Hi Luke. Glad you enjoyed the video! And thanks for the heads up on the notifications. Can I ask, is your notification bell turned on for my channel? V
I would definitely like to meet you as I would love to discuss Astronomy and other similar topics with you if you're interested.
I can't send my FB groups on here so you can reach me on messenger 😉
I loved this segment. Never thought about the subject but very I interesting. Thank you for sharing.
I always imagined the sun sounds like crackling bacon on a skillet.
Love you, love you, love you! This has always been a curiosity of mine!
The sun is the most fascinating for me.
Thanks for sharing this Information with us ❤
Hi
This thought experiment is great..
Thanks
Great video as always easy to fall asleep to
I enjoyed this thought experiment.
Great content as usual. I laughed out loud when the scene from Rick and Morty popped in my head, where they went to a planet after going on the run and the sun came up screaming and screaming. 😂🤣
Well, that doesn't make me think of the gateway to hell lol
I read somewhere online that the sun is actually white. Because of Earth's atmosphere it looks yellow. Anyways, good video. Thanks and GOD Bless. :)
Yep but for more context. There is no such thing as white light. I has all the wavelength of visible light. It’s when you have all colors of light mixed you get white. When the suns light passed through earth atmosphere, redder light can pass through easier than blue light which is why the sun looks yellow. The sky and ocean are not blue. They are clear. Blue light can’t pass through water and air easy so some of that blue light is refracted back.
Amazing video.
Thank a lot.👍👍👍❤
Yes sire, im enjoying it and keep posting very interesting videos about space
This sounds like the makings of a fantastic horror comedy movie. They should even put in a warning saying what you’re about to hear isn’t even close to how loud the sun truly is. Merely a tenth of that.
Good lord, that would be hell on earth.
I'm picturing the yelling sun from Rick and Morty.
That would be nice for an alarm clock..
Thank you for this
I knew a guy who went deaf listening to the sun. He said he couldn't hear a thing.
0:45 i was kinda hoping for a ricky and morty reference 😂
Very cool video!
Excellent Video. 👍
Thank you I did subscribe
Great video, as always.
I can't help thinking Dormamu must sound like that black hole.
Our ears and brain would evolve very different if we could hear the sun. If the volume near the sun would be 300db, and the medium between sun and earth would be like the air around you, the sun would be 76.48db loud. A bit quiter then driving in a car. Well, thats feeding my geek brain for today. 😎
But, you wrote "then" when you meant "than". 🙁
I don't want to be bossy, but I urge you to go into your post and change it. ⚒️🔧
@@TheNoiseySpectator Thanks, but no. 😄
I can't help but thinking of that scene from Rick and Morty, when that sun comes up over the horizon screaming. 😆
I wonder if there was a medium through which sound can travel,then how many astonishing cosmic sounds we would hear.
That's right little buddy😊
Wonder no more. E.M. radiation can conveniently be converted into sound waves using a radio. 🙂
I doubt you personally could afford your own radio telescope, but there are plenty of such recordings available to the public.
You may even have discovered some here on RUclips since you posted that two months ago.
@@TheNoiseySpectator wow u a smart baby
@@TheNoiseySpectator Nice😃
Amazing..Great Video 👌
I lean more toward the other side of the argument. My argument being that If space were filled with air instead of being a vacuum, and assuming the air had the same composition as Earth's atmosphere, it would allow sound waves to propagate. In this hypothetical scenario, it would be possible to hear sound coming from the Sun.
However, it's important to note that the intensity of sound decreases with distance, following the inverse square law. Sound waves would have to travel an incredibly vast distance from the Sun to reach any point in space near Earth. The intensity of the sound would attenuate significantly over such a distance, making it extremely faint and likely indiscernible to human ears.
Moreover, the Sun does not produce sound in the same way that we commonly understand it. The Sun is a massive ball of super heated gas undergoing nuclear fusion reactions, and its "sounds" manifest as various forms of energy, such as electromagnetic radiation and solar wind. These phenomena are typically observed through telescopes and detected using specialised instruments rather than being perceived as audible sound.
So while, in this hypothetical scenario, sound waves could technically travel through the air-filled space, the practicality of hearing the Sun itself would still be extremely challenging due to the vast distances involved and the nature of the Sun's "sounds.
WE'D BE ALL DEAD IF WE HEARD THE SOUND OF THE SUN THAT CLOSE!
The way I see it, earth is clearly DESIGNED for life.
i love how it actually sounds like its burning
sond or vibrations also travel through solids, liquids, gases, and plasma.
did enjoy this video 😀.
I enjoyed it so much, that I am going to put even more work on your desk.😦
I would like to see a video about the _Percentages_ close to the speed of light one would need to travel before the forces of Einstein's Relativity would start to have _really noticable_ effects on the passage of time.
At what %C would a traveler start to have problems with time speeding up for the rest of the Universe and things growing smaller and lighter for them?
Flipped around, If you could see into such a spaceship, when would it grow noticably larger and the passage of time inside slow down noticably?
Very intriguing
Pretty good idea not going to lie I love the visuals by the way
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Good video.
"The sun is sunny because it's sunned with sunniness."
---Albert Einstein
I suspect that is a mistranslation from German.
Just awesome 😍
We would have been deaf tbh if we could hear anything from space there's lots and lots of collision and exploding stars going on in space.
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You can imagine all what you like, the fact is, the sun is without any sound. The laws of space do not change as you get closer to the star. If the sun made sound, it's sound would eventually make it to earth. It produces no sound as it sits in space with no atmosphere.
There's a weird misunderstanding that most people have about how sound is measured, or what it even is. Sound is an oscillation through a medium. We understand sound as air particles which are moving towards our ears at various intervals with various wavelengths and amplitudes. But we discern things as "loud" when the air is more tightly compressed, thus having more energy. We measure this with a scale that has units called "decibels." However, that scale is logarithmic rather than linear. When you hear 100 dB versus 103dB, it's not just "slightly louder" as it only increased by 3dB. In fact, it is 10 times louder.
So when the narrator says "160 dB might cause your ear drums to burst," I think that's a bit hyperbolic, but it also depends on HOW that pressure wave is hitting your ear drums. One of the easier ways (at least in my eyes) to understand how loud something actually is, I can compare it to gunshots. If you've never heard a gunshot, apologies but that's the metric I am familiar with. Speaking volume is somewhere around 85 dB. Screaming as loudly as possible is around the 110 dB area. A semi-auto 5.56×45 caliber rifle (such as an AR-15) with a 16" barrel will be around 165 dB near the muzzle and around 161dB at the ear. This is a rather uncomfortable experience with which I am familiar. But it also makes a difference in perception if you are indoors or outdoors, indoors being noticeably more loud. A standard 9mm handgun is around 155 dB. A 22lr will be around 135-140dB with a good deal of variation. But when you add a sound suppressor to these guns, they're quite a bit less intense. A 5.56 with a moderate suppressor will get around 138-145 dB. A 9mm with supersonic ammunition is around 135 dB, but subsonic will be closer to 120dB. And a 22lr suppressed will be about 128 dB (supersonic) to 100dB (subsonic.) With the exception of the 22, these are still fairly loud. OSHA says that any single (impact) sound over 140dB is unsafe for unprotected ears and anything over 95dB constantly is, too.
So basically anything over 140dB can cause some permanent hearing loss. Sounds at 160dB will cause hearing damage, but likely not rupture an eardrum. Anything over 165 dB (which is more than twice as loud as 160dB) could produce a rupture.
Again with cosmic measurements in comparison with THE SIZE OF TEXAS.
all cosmic danger/awe ALWAYS HAS THE SIZE OF TEXAS
“Don’t listen to the sun” well now I want to
Informative
Probably sound like the oceans are boiling on earth xD
2:24 - why would the narrator dude NOT assume that we would have adapted and evolved if the sun was loud as heck.. at this point in the video he makes it seem like we just woke up one morning and the sun was so crazy loud that we wouldn’t “be able to hear our family say good morning”
I imagine it would sound somewhat similar to a large rocket launch.
Funny that an ad for solar power would come up during this particular video & not a different video or ad.
Super
Bro imagine just unmuting space like holly crap everyone would be dead
wow
After this video I'm happy about the physic laws that we have;)
Elliot from Scrubs: Sun of a.... that's loud as frick
Can you Make a Video on Proxima Centaury. V
or NearBy Stars to Sun
I think if we could hear DJ Sun’s concerts all of a sudden, humanity would probably make plans to destroy the sun😂😂
I absolutely love this guy's voice. It's up there with Morgan Freeman and Christopher Walken.
Night or Day if you can hear the noise of Sun it is always there.
Would the Sun sound like a nuclear reactor or continuous explosions? Or, maybe both...
☀ does petaton explosions every second
I imagine it would sound like a continuous rumbling sound, but like the man said, very loud.
But, IDK. If someone has a link to a video that lets you hear a nuclear reactor, I would appreciate it. 😀
Topic suggestion. What would happen if you chopped the sun in half.
that would be super loud.
I'm sure at night the sun's very quiet.
Thumbs up!
When I saw this video title I automatically thought about the screaming sun from Rick and Morty
This subject is a bit of a pet peeve of mine. If the sun was that noisy, we would have evolved differenty. So we would either heat at a different frequency, or hearing would not have developted at all.
This is pretty cool but i highly doubt the sound would go away because the sun set, its still the exact same distance away from us meaning we would hear the sun all day and all night as it didnt just vanish lol
Every 3 decibels represents a doubling of power.
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We went through 5 Adams before we figured that one out
Awe am i that special awe you shouldnt have 🤗🤗🤗 but dont hate me for being that loud i cant help myself for being that gasy i mean i am power and life
What you doing down here
You suppose to be in out of space 😂
I came here to check this human for documentaring me 😄 i want to thank him but thats if he still alive
I hope i didnt hurt him
Wow the sun came to the comments 😆
Imagine a typical 4th of July grand finale but each firework is a nuclear bomb.
And it's a constant explosion that lasts around 12 hours
That video was creepy, the sound scared me.