Submitted by full_hammer t3_10eku2h in askscience
Redwoo t1_j4vjhjk wrote
Reply to comment by Prak_Argabuthon in What happens to the energy of sound in space? by full_hammer
Exactly! Sound does travel through the vacuum of space, just not at a high enough frequency for human hearing to perceive. The frequency is very low; so low that it might be hard to describe it as sound at all. And sound travels very slowly in space, slower than a typical walking pace.
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