When ever you
watch the space battle parts of the movie, they are flashy. lots of
lasers being fired off making cool sounds. Ships are exploding when
they are hit making a very nice fireball. Also when some of the bigger
space craft blow up you can hear the massive blast. Well this is great
when your talking about a movie, but in reality this cannot happen. If
you were to watch it, you would not be able to hear a sound. It would
be a silent battle. Although you might see some explosions, but they
would not be as great a massive as in the movie.First I'll explane why there would be a silent fight. In space sound does not exist.
The reason why we hear sound is the
vibrations travel through the air and vibrate into your eardrum. Sound
waves can travel through the air, water, and other mediums. The action
of the traveling sound waves is a periodic pattern of expansions and
compressions of the medium. In space there is no air, no medium, space
is a vacuum. Because there is nothing for the sound waves to travel
through in space, then sound does not exist in space.Also the fact of explosions, they
cannot be as great and massive as you see in the movie. The fireball
you see is fueled by the oxygen within the spacecraft. Now there is
only a finite amount of oxygen within those spacecrafts, so if they
did explode it would a a short-lived, small explosion. The explosions
that your see in the movies, the fires are great fireballs. These fires
also burn for a long time. Fire uses up oxygen very fast so these long
burns cannot happen because there isn't enough oxygen to fuel this fire.