What does a Star Wars battle actually sound like?

Have you ever heard that explosions in space don't make a sound? When the Death Star from Star Wars explodes what would happen? Would you be able to hear it? And what would it actually sound like?
Well, explosions in space actually do make sounds, and in this video, we will explore it using a battle in Star Wars!

Twitter: @teddytablante
Made by Teddy Tablante

Key Branches from this video are: Sound, Vacuums, Atmosphere, Star Wars

Erratum:

Post with Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects
Sound editing with Reaper

Work Cited:

Cody's Lab "Sound of Explosions in Space? Part 1"

Note: Strange enough, there are very few scientific papers or articles on the effects of explosions in vacuums. People should remedy this and publish a paper on it.

Music Attribution in Order:

Action Time by Biz Baz Studio from YouTube Audio Library

#StarWars #SoundInSpace #VacuumScience

[BranchEducation]

Have you ever heard someone say "You can't hear explosions in outer space?" What do you think after watching this video?

[nocomment]

I love that you have the answer on the thumbnail, respecting your audience's intelligence

[raybin]

The movie 2001: A Space Odyssey does a great job illustrating sound travel through space particularly in scene where astronaut returns to spacecraft via airlock - sound gradually increases as air fills the airlock chamber.

[rockytoptech]

Ahhh you've explained something so simply that I've tried to explain to ppl for years! Thank you!!

[HyungnamGu]

it depends on distance. If the your ship was directly next to the exploding ship, you would be more likely to hear something
The exploding ship would release gases and technically sound could travel along with them. However, since space is a vacuum, these gases will spread out very rapidly and the density will drop off very fast with distance from the explosion. (If you think about it, the amount of air in the ship is probably not very large compared to the volume of space between two ships.) So by the time the explosion reached your ship nearby, any sounds carried by the gas would still be too faint to hear.

[quentindunlop]

This is a very interesting video, and I thank you for making it. I have one small question though. Would there not be a delay, albeit a little one, between seeing the explosion and then hearing it? The difference between the speed of sound and light being what it is. Yes, I realize the standard 340m/s doesn't apply here, but rather the "speed of explosion", but there would there still be a significant enough difference to perceive the delay?

[arfyness]

Excellent video! Great explanation for this concept, which is possibly counter-intuitive for a lot of people.
And yet, my favorite part is the adorable little nudge at 2:55

[youtbnyaindra]

There are 2 types of mic, one vibrate based on the material natural frequency and one based on pressure (which is the one you are referring here). Our ears has both principles to sense the sound.
So based on what you have explained, it makes sense to hear the sound, but might not sound the same as here on earth (from its amp and freq). Nevertheless, I would say that you will hear the plasma canon too based on your explanation - might not sound like pew pew tho 😅

[hellohumans]

I think u should start a series of electronic components
U can explain all the electronics components in one series
There is no proper video or playlist in YouTube so u can start

[Botjer]

Wouldnt you also hear engine exhausts as you pass by behind? They would be sending out a stream of particles. Also we dont know how the different types of shields would affect the microphone.

[dipereira]

Nice explanation, but don't forget to mention that in this case, the firing lasers from the ships, the non-explosive impacts should also be heard, because even If it's a smaller scale, the cannons will get hot and release particles. depending of the concept used for the laser itself like the heated-gas/plasma laser (since we can see it "travelling" to the destination and exploding instead of instant contact and burn) those will be releasing particles that can be capted by "space-microphones" and if it's emiting light that also means those beans can be emitting atoms/particles right?

[terminatroll-_-]

I like the detail that the ship avoided the letters in space

[luanamarquez]

Waiting for this sound series to continue!! Thanks for the explanation

[MooseeMcMoose]

thank you for this informational video!

[minecat]

Nice Star Wars ship modeld. I hope to see them in another video

[dalemoses]

Also worthwhile to note is that 500 meters/second is 500 meters/second. The Falcon is about 35 meters long so unless the explosion has a much higher velocity (and it may or may not depending on what is going boom or simply escaping) you're going to hear these pops a second or so after the explosion.

[adeshgadekar]

Thos explosions sounds like slapping slippers on tiles 😂, btw thank you for giving us Excellent knowledge.

[JordanBeagle]

That's what I always thought but couldn't explain as well as you, the ships have their own air to carry the sound waves!

[anatablantenunes]

Thanks!! My 5 year old loves these videos.

[Roxor]

I once read a paper about synthesising gunshot sounds (title was something along the lines of "procedural synthesis of gunshot sounds"). These simulated explosions sound similar to the anechoic waveforms described in the paper when I implemented the algorithms in PureData. Pretty-much just a click. You need to add reverberation to get something that sounds like what we typically think of as a gunshot sound. Seems explosions are similar.