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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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The beginning of the Universe would have been loud (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago* by Sunflier@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

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We all talk about the big bang as this moment the Universe begins by popping into existence with simple hydrogen and some helium. Hydrogen and Helium are gases that are able to carry sound. Today, space has expanded so much that there is vacume beyond where matter clumps together to form stars/planets, which means the sound couldn't propagate, but the early early Universe wouldn't have clumped like today; there would have been hydrogen everywhere. This means it would have been loud everywhere.

*Edit: I know we call it the Big Bang because of the rapid expansion of spacetime, but I always just pictured the general motion of expansion as the "bang". Never thought of how loud it would have been.

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[–] Thorry@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago

I think you have to differentiate between simple pressure waves or even shockwaves and soundwaves.

Like Michal said, usually something is only defined as sound if there is something to hear/interpret that sound. Otherwise it's just waves in a medium, like any other kind of wave. What we humans consider sound and what a whale or a dog considers sound is not the same.

For the most part the beginning of the universe was very hot. Sure there was fluid dynamics going on, but would we consider that loud? Or just very hot?

As for the reason something essentially random had structure is very interesting, but I don't think fluid dynamics or soundwaves had anything to do with it.

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