What's The Loudest Possible Sound?
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[MUSIC] If I had a machine that allowed me to suddenly… transport myself elsewhere, the air filling the vacuum where I used to be would collapse with enough force it would burst the eardrums and cause nausea in anyone standing nearby. Teleportation may sound like a cool idea, but thanks to sound itself, it's a pretty dangerous proposition. [MUSIC] A sound wave is mechanical, it needs a medium to travel through. Right now, the wave created by my voice is wiggling the air back and forth, creating areas of higher and lower pressure. When we talk about how loud a sound is, we’re really talking about the intensity of that pressure wave. The louder the sound, the more intense the wave. Unlike ripples on a pond, sound moves out from its source in the shape ...
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[MUSIC] If I had a machine that allowed me to suddenly… transport myself elsewhere, the air filling the vacuum where I used to be would collapse with enough force it would burst the eardrums and cause nausea in anyone standing nearby. Teleportation may sound like a cool idea, but thanks to sound itself, it's a pretty dangerous proposition. [MUSIC] A sound wave is mechanical, it needs a medium to travel through. Right now, the wave created by my voice is wiggling the air back and forth, creating areas of higher and lower pressure. When we talk about how loud a sound is, we’re really talking about the intensity of that pressure wave. The louder the sound, the more intense the wave. Unlike ripples on a pond, sound moves out from its source in the shape ...
