Did the big bang make a sound

Question

given that there was nothing around to hear it.

Answer 1

Of course.  Just because no one around to hear it means nothing.  The explosion of molecules caused the sound.

Answer 2

God only knows and he's not talking.=}

Answer 3

Space is a vacuum and sound cannot travel in a vacuum.

Answer 4

No.

Not just because there was nothing around to hear it, but because it didn't actually go "bang". That was a derisive, sarcastic term coined by a physicist who didn't believe in the concept.

It was a sudden large expansion, not a bang.

Answer 5

No it did not. It is because it occured in the outer space in a vacuum condition in which sound could not be transmitted through. This is due to the reason that sound can only be generated when there are air particle in which it acts as a medium and vibrates. Logically, the big bang would not make a sound. The name big bang may be implied to the massie explosion with exceptional bright lights formed during the explosion whch could be viewed by high--powered Hubble telescope.

Answer 6

No. Sound needs a medium to travel through eg. air, water. You can't hear any sounds in space because it's a vacuum.

Answer 7

i would say it was a big flash rather than a big bang

Answer 8

does a falling tree make a sound in a forrest if no one is there

to hear it. to be honest it wasnt a bang. it was more of a damp squib. but it wasnt a bang

Answer 9

Well it depends on what point of the big bang your talking about, obviuosly the first assumtion by most is no becuase 'space is a vacum'

however we have to remember that space is only a vancum becuase of the current state of the particles that make it up, hence during the big bang (when the universe was made) the particles were not in the same positions hence there was no vacum, (proof of this comes from various sources, one being the fact that lots of objects that are of very similar sizes, changed speed, and moved in different directions despite having a commen origin, as opposed to normally, when similar objects behave the same in a vacum).

So we have to assume that the big bang did make a sound, there has been some evidence to support this but its still in question.

You must remeber that the acclaimed scientists that named it, called it the big BANG, the onamatopia inplying sound, showing that its the most likely scenario.

Nothing can proved currently. Also we can consider that the conditions of the big bang are supposed to be replicated in the LHC in switzerland, and that doesn't contain a vacum.

Hope this helped.

Answer 10

it released a sound wave, but sounds only occur if there is a device to pick them up (like a brain).  So, there was a sound wave but no sound

Answer 11

No, because there was no gas/air to carry the sound.

Answer 12

There is no sound in space today. You think there would be a sound if the space didn't even exist?

Answer 13

Actually, this question is pretty interesting despite my first thoughts about it.

Around 13.7 billion years ago the universe was a super dense very uniform cloud of subatomic particles. For some reason unknown to us it began to expand and began to cool turning all those subatomic particles into hydrogen and helium. Despite the universe being perfectly uniform early on it is today very clumpy with masses of galaxies situated seemingly randomly. Perhaps minute perturbations in the early universe caused these uniformity anomalies. The perturbations could be considered the first sound.

And as for the whole reference to a tree in a forest falling and no one being around to hear it... even though no one was alive at this period any sound would have still been a sound. Ever heard of the butterfly affect? It made a pretty depressing movie, but the actual concept behind it is that a very small change can bring about huge consequences. The popular example is a butterfly in Southeast Asia flapping its wings could cause a tornado in America... Similarly the first sound of the Big Bang would have caused huge changes in our universe; changes we can see and measure.

Answer 14

the big bang wasn't an explosion, it was an expansion

Answer 15

No because there's no air or any other medium such as water to carry it.