Submitted by full_hammer t3_10eku2h in askscience
Buddahrific t1_j4wma2y wrote
Reply to comment by roosty_butte in What happens to the energy of sound in space? by full_hammer
Pressure plays an essential role in sound (sound is pressure), so it's hard to separate the two. A vibrating tuning fork would transfer kinetic energy to anything that gets close enough to touch it, including a pocket of air that is somehow held together in a vacuum. If you had a microphone inside that, I think it would pick up those vibrations as sound.
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