Is the Earth making noises?

Question

I've heard and read that the in space, Earth is making sort of screaming noises... Is this true? Can you please explain it to me?

Thank you.

Answer 1

No, you have been fed misinformation by the media as usual. You probably are referring to an attention grabbing headline without reading the full story.

I saw one reacently about "screaming birth of a supernova" it was actually referring to a light echo, which is something completely different to a scream of any sort.

Next time read the story not the headline, and do not listen to half-wits.

Answer 2

when solsr radiation comes in contact with the ionosphere, the contact creates radio and energy waves that when recieved sound like screeches and screams

Answer 3

If the earth is making noise, it cant leave the atmosphere. First answer is right. Sound travels by the vibration of particles and as no particles in space, it couldn't travel through it. Not sure about the question though, not heard of that before.

Answer 4

if your talking about physical noise than no. noise is nothing but matter bouncing against more matter and in space threes virtually no matter. but the earth is making noise on radio frequencies, during the northern lights it's pretty much deafening but it bounces off our atmosphere so we can still transmit signals in spite of it

Answer 5

Not sound waves, but radio noises. Lightning, the auroras, plate tectonics, and other things produce bursts of electrical energy that can be picked up as radio signals. Some of these sound like screaming. Some of these noises can be picked up on Earthly radios, too.

Answer 6

Sound is vibration and does make a sound if someone with good enough receiving ear is close enough to receive the vibrations and transmit them to a good enough brain to translate.

Dogs for instance might hear a sound, but you cannot hear.

Scientists say space is an ether full of stuff they have only recently discovered.

Vibration could be transmitted and received in space. I am not convinced that the receiver would hear a scream but something would be happening.

Good Vibrations?

Answer 7

noise can not travel through space the sound waves have nothing to vibrate because of the vaccum

Answer 8

earth's natural vlf (i.e. radio) emissions have been known and studied for decades.

whistlers, the dawn chorus and, in this case, akr did not suddenly pop in to existence because of a shoddy piece of "science" writing.

Answer 9

No. There isnt any way for the sounds to travel through space. cuz there isnt any air out there.

Answer 10

Yes, the Earth makes noise.  The molten core of the Earth is moving.  The crust is moving on top of that.  The different tectonic plates of the crust are moving against each other.  All of this creates vibrations and compression waves.  That's all that sound is - compression waves.  These waves travel through air and solids.  That is why when you tap on a wall, a person on the other side of the wall can hear the tapping.  The waves travel through the wood and plaster of the wall the vibration creates sound waves on the other side of the wall that someone can hear.

Sometimes, at night, when it is quiet and I am laying in bed, I believe I can hear the Earth's "sounds".  It's not really hearing - it's more like feeling a very, very, very low pitched rumbling inside your ears.  It changes pitch every few seconds, and there are usually two and sometimes three distinct "tones".  I have read that many other people can "hear" these sounds also.  I like to think of it as the music of the Earth.

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Answer 11

Searched in Google and found this:

"Astronomers have discovered that the Earth emits awful, ear-piercing chirps and whistles that could be heard by any aliens who might be listening, according to an article up at Space.com. The sounds are created by charged particles from the solar wind colliding with Earth's magnetic field."