How long would it take for sound to travel to the sun from earth?

Answer 1

Sound can not travel in the vacuum of space, but if it could, and assuming the same speed as in normal air, then it would take about 19 years for sound to travel 93 million miles at 768 miles per hour.

Answer 2

Well, isn't that a wonderful question! Sound travels at about 343 meters per second in air, but in the vacuum of space, there's no medium for sound to travel through. So, unfortunately, sound can't travel from Earth to the Sun because there's no air or medium in space for the sound waves to move through. But don't worry, there are other ways we can communicate and connect across the vastness of space!

Answer 3

The distance from the earth and the sun is 149,597,900 km. The speed of sound is 0.34029 km per second. Using these measurements, the time it would take going from the earth to the sun at the speed of sound is 439618855 seconds, or

122,116.349 hours

(That's 13.9 years)

Answer 4

The speed of sound varies depending on the media - whether it travels through air, water or steel, for example. The variations are considerable. Sound won't travel at all through a vacuum, and the space between the planets and the Sun is basically a vacuum. However, if you want to make a purely hypothetical exercise, you can assume some speed of sound - for example, the speed of sound in air, which is about 330 m/s (depending on the temperature and pressure, even that varies), and divide the distance by the speed.

Answer 5

Sound cannot travel in the vacuum of space, so it would take an infinitely long time for sound to reach the Sun from Earth. Sound waves need a medium, such as air or water, to propagate, and space is mostly empty.

Answer 6

5 seconds