Weve all heard (well I have) people debate does a tree falling make a sound if no ones heres it right?

 

Well does the sun make a sound?

doesnt matter if it does or doesnt, its in a vacume so no one would know either way.

Yes it does, the sun would make lots of sound as it's a giant ball of burning gas. However to be close enough to hear it you'd burn.

We need an exact definition of 'sound' before you can get anywhere with this.

One definition from Dictionary.com:

"mechanical vibrations transmitted through an elastic medium"

- going on this the answer would be Yes.

Taken from Yahoo Answers.....

 

The sun actually does produce sound - like a deep kettle drum, it reverberates once every 5 minutes or so (this is from the pulsing of the magnetic fields in the interior of the sun).

But we can't hear that sound since sound needs a medium (like air or water) to carry.

yes it is noisy but the noise cant travel to us through the vacuum of space.

This is a piece I once wrote whilst working with Stephen Hawkings, or maybe I just pasted it from a website, i cant remember LOL :D

 

The constant stream of hot gas rushing up from inside the Sun makes the surface froth like a pan of violently boiling water, except the bubbles, or granules as physicists call them, are huge, each spreading out for thousands of kilometres. As the gas streams zip around, they roar like jet engines and often break the sound barrier. The noise they make is carried through the Sun as pressure waves, which is all sound is, and it's these waves scientists tune in to.

 

Researchers now think there are around a million different types of sound wave that, once created by speeding gas flows on the Sun's surface, are momentarily trapped inside the star, often rattling around for days on end. "If you could embed yourself on the surface of the Sun, you'd find it's making one heck of a noise," says David Hathaway, who heads the solar physics group at Nasa's Marshall Space Flight Centre in Huntsville, Alabama.

who cares, as long as we get some this summer and i get a tan

who cares, as long as we get some this summer and i get a tan

 

 

here here :D

LOL

Nothing like a bit of scientific debate to sort out the great minds of the forum from the lager louts :D:D

LOL

Nothing like a bit of scientific debate to sort out the great minds of the forum from the lager louts :D:D

 

anyone can copy and paste, it takes a real genius to find the cheapest place for stella

anyone can copy and paste, it takes a real genius to find the cheapest place for stella

 

lol

you can in fact hear teh sun. yes there is a vacume and audiable radio waves do not travel through a vacume, however;

 

Go to any newspaper stand and you can hear the sun quite clearly, especialy the russle of page 3. Boom Boom

 

But astronomers can listen to the noise immited from the sun, and any other star, we hear it everytime we turn the radio on, there called radio waves and from the sun it takes 15 hours to get here, or have I miss calculated that again.

As far as i was aware it takes 8 minutes for light to travel from the sun to earth?

As far as i was aware it takes 8 minutes for light to travel from the sun to earth?

 

Light is a damn sight speedier than sound - 186,000 miles a second vs. 770mph (in air).