sound waves can travel through a vacuum in the star wars universe as evidenced by TIE fighters. do we then assume that it isn't actually sound?
Wrong. We have a sound effect over the images. Unless you think that Luke and Leia have bands following them around?
or maybe they are lasers but light just follows different rules within the star wars universe.
So no.
Originally posted by Red Nemesissymphonies!!!
Wrong. We have a sound effect over the images. Unless you think that Luke and Leia have bands following them around?
1. They never actually shot in space. Its either a model or a cg. (not sure if i need to say that, but two things are infinite in life, the universe and human stupidity. I'm still not sure about the first one. That being said, nothing you see took place in a vacuum.
2. Sound cannot travel through a vacuum. In order for an ear or other oral device to receive the vibration, it has to have a medium to vibrate through. No medium, no sound. Vibrations are frictionless and therefor do not make sound in space.
3. The sound is there for interpretation, just like the term "light" when added to lightsaber. Things always get ****ed up when you try and apply science to science fiction. The entire set of movies is half wizardry/magic in storyline anyway, making it the kind of thing that can't be justified by science.
For instance: Have you ever seen a beam of light stop? Have you ever seen a beam of light stop at 4 feet? NO. light travels on for forever until it hits an object and dissipates. There is no way to make a four foot beam of light. Light also does not collide with other light. The whole concept of a lightsaber actually being made out of light is absurd. I just disproved the coolest weapon ever thought up by trying to apply scientific laws to it. Star wars is a phantasy, not a sci-fi. Want to try and explain the scientific rulesof a show/movie? Go watch star trek.
Originally posted by Red Nemesis
Wrong. We have a sound effect over the images. Unless you think that Luke and Leia have bands following them around?Nothing from the source material (the movies) suggests this and the EU openly contradicts it.
So no.
This is why Blue Harvest (Family Guy Cover) Makes more sense.
As Luke introduces John Williams and his orchestra on that scene when he's watching the two suns on Tatooine.
Originally posted by Red Nemesis
Space is a vacuum.
The interwebs would disagree.
Contrary to popular understanding, outer space is not completely empty (i.e. a perfect vacuum), but contains a low density of particles, predominantly hydrogen plasma, as well as electromagnetic radiation and neutrinos. Hypothetically, it also contains dark matter and dark energy.
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http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mystery_monday_030922.html
Sound can travel through space, because space is not the total vacuum it's often made out to be. Atoms of gas give the universe a ubiquitous atmosphere of sorts, albeit a very thin one.
Space, though not as efficient, can also serve as a medium.
A vacuum is a volume of space that is substansively empty of matter, so that gaseous pressure is much less than standard atmospheric pressure. The root of the word vacuum is the Latin adjective vacuus which means "empty," but space can never be perfectly empty. A perfect vacuum, known as "free space", with a gaseous pressure of absolute zero is a philosophical concept with no physical reality, not least because quantum theory predicts that no volume of space is perfectly empty in this way. Physicists often use the term "vacuum" slightly differently. They discuss ideal test results that would occur in a perfect vacuum, which they simply call "vacuum" in this context, and use the term partial vacuum to refer to the imperfect vacua realized in practice.The quality of a vacuum is measured by how closely it approaches a perfect vacuum. The residual gas pressure is the primary indicator of quality, and it is most commonly measured in units of torr, even in metric contexts. Lower pressures indicate higher quality, although other variables must also be taken into account. Quantum mechanics sets limits on the best possible quality of vacuum. Outer space is a natural high quality vacuum, mostly of much higher quality than what can be created artificially with current technology. Low quality artificial vacuums have been used for suction for millenia.
There have been some terrific sci-fi stories about true vacuum. Srsly.
Sound will not travel in space because there are not particles for it to vibrate. The EM radiation does not vibrate for sound waves. Neutrinos sure as hell won't vibrate in that way. Any other particulates, even in a Nebula, would be insufficiently dense to transmit the sound waves.