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why the light doesn't make sound

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Hi, im just a yound kid of age 16 who found this web by accident and saw this topic. At the start, the people were arguing about why light could not be used to produce sound. Is it correct for me to say that light and sound are 2 different types of waves, so they could not be converted from one form to another? Although the law of conversation of energy states that energy can converted from one form to another, shouldn't the difference in the way energy is "carried" between the 2 waves make it not possible to make light into sound?

Im just a young kid curious about this, please help. ^^

 

You could convert the energy in light into energy of sound, but it would require an interaction with some medium. You could e.g. do the equivalent of thunder if you used a high-intensity light beam to superheat air. But light doesn't require a medium, so there is no inherent sound to light.

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