Space question for astrophysicists.
Space is a vacuum so they say there is no sound. Since sound needs a medium like air to travel, would it get loud if you were floating in a cloud of oxygen or hydrogen, etc?
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"...so they say..." - No, it is. The propagation of sound waves is, in this sense, the exact opposite to EM waves (ex. light) in that the denser the medium the more effective it becomes. The answer to your question is "it depends", because what, exactly, do you have in mind here? Something like Earth's atmosphere?