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For reference, the loudest sound ever on earth was 180dB https://wikipedia.org/wiki/1883_eruption_of_Krakatoa

Fun fact. Adam West Batman has an audio communicator capable of producing "20,000 decibles', while this is only used to scare off a tiger, this would realistically be powerful enough to create a black hole and destroy the universe
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[–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

Okay if you are talking about sound waves, they’re not really waves in the traditional sense. They are waves because it tracks the compactness/vibrations.

The reason why sound transfers faster in solids is because the atoms are more rigid due to, you know, being a solid.

If you pump enough energy into it, won’t you start doing funny things?

Ie: if you put enough energy into a rigid material there’s a point where it stops being able to take the force and breaks

I’m also not a scientist and also am the wrong type of engineer too so…

I’d imagine if you compact things faster than the energy can leave the immediate area, you’d run into funny phenomenons with the temperature/pressure/state of matter histogram.

Which brings me to my question of what is a shock wave if not a sound wave?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Speaking from how i intuitively feel about the science..

    It looks like waves can exists on a spectrum from low energy to high energy and the more energy you add the more there is potential for complex reactions, the more new properties emerge and thus the more potential damage there can be done to given matter.

    dB can be seen as the measurement of vibration that is usually used for the range of waves we call sound waves but i see no reason why it cant work outside the scope.

    So technically feel the waves are really the same, but then compare that to the electromagnetic spectrum and we label some ranges as colors.

    If red is the color that makes us angry. And green makes us calm. Then the question we are asking is: What shade of green do we need to make us angry?

    Because were getting hung up on the fact there both measurements of photonic light, so essentially the same?

    Is that a fair comparison? Can someone get a real scientist in the room please?

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