How Noisy is the Sun?
April 28, 2008 Just Random! 6 Random Comments
So the other day I was just thinking about random things, and an idea popped into my head that I had never really thought of before: How noisy is the sun?
Think about it…the sun is basically a big explosion going on all the time, so does it make some kind of a giant noise all the time or is it eerily quiet?
Well, being that I am not very scientifically gifted, I decided to pose the question to my brother who is a chemist and teaches at the local university. The answer is that unless you are inside the sun you wouldn’t hear a thing. This is because in space there is no sound; there is no medium for the sound to travel through. So in order to hear the sound of the sun you’d have to be inside of it.
So there is your random science pondering for today. Some of you who are more scientifically inclined might be saying “Well duh!” to this, but I personally never enjoyed science classes in school. Unless we were blowing stuff up…
