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Sound requires a solid, liquid or gas to carry the vibrations in waves. The air in the atmosphere is actually a collection of gases and so sound travels through what appears to be an empty space.

Sound cannot travel through a vacuum so an explosion two meters away from you in space would be silent (but probably still hurt!)

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The difference between sound waves and electromagnetic waves is that they travel through different mediums, in different ways, though some of those can be the same medium. The main difference is that electromagnetic waves can travel through a vacuum. But to be precise, a vacuum is, itself, a medium. It may be devoid of matter, but that does not mean that it is truly empty. It is actually filled with particles called Higg's bosons. Also, the discussion that physicists are having about exactly how electromagnetic waves travel and what kind of medium it is that they travel through is still in debate and may prove to be the most fascinating frontier of 21st Century physics, just like Einstein's Theory of Relativity revolutionized the 20th Century.

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No, sound cannot be transmitted without a medium. Sound is a longitudinal wave. NEarly all longitudinal waves cannot travel without medium.

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