that it's impossible to hear? Perhaps an explosion? Keep in mind I'm talking about sound intensity and not frequency.
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that it's impossible to hear? Perhaps an explosion? Keep in mind I'm talking about sound intensity and not frequency.
Something so Loud you lose hearing and don't know what you listened too :D
Wow, I have no idea!
Can you lose hearing SO quickly from the loudness that your brain doesn't register any sound?
I dunno but I'm curious now.
I figured something that loud would probably kill you. :|
But, I don't know.
Yes I think so, and yes it would probably kill you :P
A sound that makes you deaf instantly, that would be. I don't see there's any other way :)
me and my cousin one time found bullets, and we had a hammer, so we them with it, and it was so loud, we couldnt hear anything for about 3 seconds. so im assuming if you got something even louder, then im sure it would deafen you for longer, if not for ever.
You and your cousin are lucky to be alive after doing something so stupid, slash112.
As said above, such a sound would almost certainly kill you. Which is kind of cool, actually.
yes, we know, we realised it was a stupid thing about 10 minutes later. we were like "hold on a minute, that was fuckin stupid, they were dam BULLETS!!!", we just werent thinking straight at the time. but, boys will be boys, as they say, we always did stupid stuff back then.
but back on topic anyway...
i dodnt undertand how a loud noise could kill you, it could damage your ears, but i dont see how it could kill you.
The more we increase the amount of decibels of a sound, the more power behind the sound from the sound source. A good example is that if you play a song really loud on a set of speakers, when you turn it up to its loudest, it is likely that you will feel a certain amount of pressure coming from the sound source.
This is applicable to the big bang, with a loud sound comes a significant force due to the power of the sound, of course it does depend on the source.
So in answer to the original question, it is likely that there is a sound so loud that we couldn't hear it because if it were so immense it would have already burst our ear drums by the initial force, but it could go either way, there may be a split second in which you hear the sound before the pressure cripples your ear drums or the pressure may be so overwhelming that your ear drums pack in before you have chance to perceive the sound.
To the extent where a sound so loud could kill someone, its definitely possible, as i said above, with loud sound comes great pressure/force and if the sound produced was so powerful it would likely mean it produces a lot of pressure, if this pressure is significant enough if could potentially either crush the body, or maybe soft organs such as the brain thus rendering us dead.
I think the main question is, is it possible for the compression wave to rip apart your brain before it registers the wave having hit the ear drum. I would guess no, since neural impulses travel faster than sound. Or in other words, no matter how hard you get pwned by a super nuclear shock wave, you should always hear an unbelievably loud bang a split second before dying.
It would take a blast of sound of roughly 200 decibels to kill. This would create an air embolism originating in the lungs. The pressure from the blast would rupture tissue in your lungs, forcing air bubbles out into the arteries leading to your heart, brain, and other organs. This would lead to sudden death. It would also crush your intestines and other hollow organs as well as shatter your eardrums, very likely before you heard the sound. You eardrums will rupture at 160-185 decibels, so it is possible to never hear the sound that killed you.
More information here.
The Mosquito
it's not exactly loud, but the frequency is so high and fast, it goes beyond most people's hearing ability. i don't think this is the answer you were looking for, but it's mildly interesting. there's also been some study done on it's health effects, which might provide a clue to what a sound that's loud and intense might do to you.
if you can't hear the sound itself, the best way to describe it, would--obviously--be like when mosquitos buzz in people's ears.
the guy was trying to do Tesla-like experiments with frequency rather than electricity. i'm not positive on this part, but if i remember correctly he was trying to find sounds that could create intense vibrations, similar to Tesla's earthquake-machine. but came up with this instead.
:P
read OP, "not frequency"
the mosquito is a good thing though, i love it, its at a frequency of somewhere around 16-17KHz i think, and that sound can be heard by young people, but after you get a bit older, you cant hear that frequency. a while ago, my family was over, so there was kids and adults, i played it dead loud and all the kids were all "aaaah!!" and the adults were all "what? i dont hear anything" it was funny
oops. apologies.Quote:
Originally Posted by slash112
my mind just went to that because i remembered something about what he was originally trying to do.
...and after thinking about it some more,
...that is tremendously unsettling to think about.Quote:
Originally Posted by Man of Steel
Is it possible a sound destroy something more solid than us? like rock?
...wait, best not to think more about it, lest someone come up with the idea to invent something like that. *shudder*
:eek:
you'll get to the point where it's less "sound" in the traditional sense, and more "blast wave"
I interpreted the question to be asking whether the knowledge of a compression wave having hit the ear could ever not be known before the wave itself kills the victim. If we're talking about processing the sound, then that takes the brain considerably longer, and may indeed take longer than the time it takes to be killed.
A sound so loud that it will kill you is not a sound anymore, it's a very powerful shockwave, ie. something a huge explosion would cause.