Posted on 02/12/2017 10:30:51 AM PST by ETL
” Hard to imagine any sort of “ripple” or “wave” effect going on in that sparseness. “
Let your mind be free of preconceptions!
Yes, it isn’t sensible. Denser mediums conduct sound faster, so the extremely thin medium of space should conduct sound much more slowly.
If the density is just a few atoms of hydrogen by cubic meter, how on eart, er, how in SPACE, can they possibly bump into each other sufficiently to create a ripple or wave effect?
The speed is related to pressure and temperature, which are both related to density, so yes, density is related to speed.
They will bump into each other eventually, it will just happen less often than in a denser gas, so the sound will take longer to propagate because of the delay between each “step” of the propagation.
“Denser mediums conduct sound faster,”
As the temperature of a medium increases, the speed of sound increases ...
Do your homework.
Imagine being an astronomer and seeing this heading our way.
Being able to predict when the planet and the entire solar system will cease to exist.
A “few atoms” of hydrogen in a cubic meter?? Do you realize how tiny an atom, of anything, is?
So black holes are hard to see in space because they’re black.
Tricky rascals, those black holes.
“They will bump into each other eventually, it will just happen less often than in a denser gas, so the sound will take longer to propagate because of the delay between each “step” of the propagation.”
Speed of sound is NOT related to density. For example, as you heat up water, the density decreases resulting in greater distance between molecules but the speed of sound goes UP!
According to the astronomy pros, many of the atoms in our bodies, the heavier ones, were created and/or once inside one of these huge exploding stars.
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Where did the hydrogen in bodies come from?
Mainstream cosmology is a mess of assumptions piled upon more assumptions and justified with fancy arcane math. Sometime believing is not seeing.
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Does this mean you are smarter and have more knowledge than everybody in the field?
“So what could possibly send such a huge stream of molecular gas speeding out of a supernova remnant?”
Off hand, I’d say it was those three burritos for a buck down at the C-store.
“The speed is related to pressure and temperature, which are both related to density, so yes, density is related to speed.”
NOT.
See DETAILS: speed of sound in gases
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_sound#Speed_of_sound_in_ideal_gases_and_air
“For example, as you heat up water, the density decreases resulting in greater distance between molecules but the speed of sound goes UP!”
Because the speed is also related to temperature. It’s not only related to one variable...
Why would the speed of sound increase if the atoms are more energetic and further apart?
“Where did the hydrogen in bodies come from?”
Space is filled with hydrogen.
Yes it is, but if the heavier elements were created in supernovas, where was the hydrogen created?
LMAO, your own link shows density as a variable in the equation. Of course, you can substitute out that variable because density is related to temperature and pressure, as any high school chem student knows, but density is definitely related to the speed.
Maybe read your own links before you use them to disprove your own point, eh?
“Why would the speed of sound increase if the atoms are more energetic and further apart? “
It doesn’t matter how far apart the atoms are. The speed is related to their speed of motion in the medium.
Sound can’t travel faster than the atom travels regardless of whether it has to travel a short or long distance.
Think of going across the country at 60 mph and stopping multiple times for ZERO time each stop.
It makes no difference whether you stop 100 or 1000 times.
Now if you increase your speed to 80 mph ...
The speed of the atom is related to its temperature.
How fast it travels is related mostly to it’s temperature and mass.
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