Did the Big Bang make a sound?

Question

and if it didn't why is it called the Big Bang?

Answer 1

Yes, I heard it on the radio the other day.

Answer 2

Indeed it did, and science has proven that the sound it made was remarkably similar to the Backstreet Boys' first single.

Look it up.

Answer 3

It made a sound only in the form of electromagnetic radiation (radio waves). It probably could not make a sound in terms of "traditional" sound (sound waves), since there was no medium for the sound to travel through.

It is called the Big Bang because it was the rapid expansion of space-time. "Bang" the Universe went from the size of a neutron to the size of a basketball in less than a second......

Answer 4

Good point...someone's on their toes on that one. In all actuality it was first called "Hypothesis of the primeval atom" by a man named Georges Lemaitre. The name Big Bang came from a critic of the theory Fred Hoyle. He did not believe in it, thus giving it a silly name as an insult so to speak.

Answer 5

Well this is Philosophy so I would say that we need to agree on the definition of sound. To my way of thinking, sound is the feeling of vibrations that has been changed into something the brain can interpret; if there is nothing there that can listen, there can be no sound. Some tell me that the creation was a perfect note sung by GOD. Others have said that there is not enough matter in the universe to account for this or that. I say that to a flea on a dog’s back the ocean is a very big place.

ME!

Answer 6

In the vacuum of space, sound is not heard. The Big Bang was misnamed.

Answer 7

Of course.  It created the universe, and thus it created the matter it contained.  There was no vacuum... not until everything spread out.

I distinctly remember... what was it I said?  "Let there be..." something... I dont recall my exact words. But it was so incredibly loud... about a week later, I had to stay home from work

Answer 8

the big bang released pure energy, so i would say it released all kinds of energy, not just heat, which would include the sound energy needed for a bang to occur.

obviously, the amount of heat energy released would incinerate you before you heard it anyways, so it wouldnt matter too much.

Answer 9

Sound is dependent upon an auditory-sense perceiver, therefore, unless there was a cosmic "ear" present... no.

Answer 10

That would have been loud, if it did =O

Answer 11

Of course it made a bang.  There was plenty of sound traveling through the mediums produced by the big bang.

Outside the big bang it was quiet.

Nobody knows for sure, but if I remember correctly when it happened, there was a crakling sound.  Then a moan that sounded like "latter days be bright".  Or something like that.

Answer 12

Sound waves need air monocles (i think i spelt that wrong) to travel on

since there is no air in Space there most likely wasn't a sound