Some might find this interesting. Some time ago I tried to figure out how loud the Sun is.
There's nothing between here and there to carry sound. But if there was...
I found the loudness of a hydrogen bomb of a certain megatonnage at a certain distance. I found the megatonnage equivalent of the Sun somewhere. Use 93 million miles for the new distance. Use the inverse square law. Covert the result to decibels, easier said than done.
Anyway, the decibel scale for loudness isn't open ended - there's a point where an increase in "loudness" won't be perceived, so the scale ends there. I forget the value for that, but I remember that it's approximately as loud as having your ear laying against a jackhammer.
The calculations for the Sun was just slightly more power than that, so you can say the Sun as heard from the Earth would be about as loud as a jackhammer upside your head, if there was air to carry the sound. My gut feeling was that it would sound fairly faint.
There's nothing between here and there to carry sound. But if there was...
I found the loudness of a hydrogen bomb of a certain megatonnage at a certain distance. I found the megatonnage equivalent of the Sun somewhere. Use 93 million miles for the new distance. Use the inverse square law. Covert the result to decibels, easier said than done.
Anyway, the decibel scale for loudness isn't open ended - there's a point where an increase in "loudness" won't be perceived, so the scale ends there. I forget the value for that, but I remember that it's approximately as loud as having your ear laying against a jackhammer.
The calculations for the Sun was just slightly more power than that, so you can say the Sun as heard from the Earth would be about as loud as a jackhammer upside your head, if there was air to carry the sound. My gut feeling was that it would sound fairly faint.