In a science fiction movie, when a spaceship explodes, the vibrations from the sound nearly destroy a nearby spaceship. If you were the science consultant for the movie, what would your advice be for the producer

The advice for the movie producer would be to change this approach as it doesn't satisfy the laws of physics. The vibrations cannot travel in space as space is a vacuum with no material medium for the travel of the sound waves.

Rather, the producer can write that the particles or the electromagnetic radiation that result from the explosion of spaceship can travel and nearly cause the explosion of another spaceship nearby.

Explanation:

The vibrations of the sound from the explosion of one spaceship cannot destroy a nearby spaceship.

Sound waves require material medium to travel and in space, there is no material medium, it is all vacuum, so, vibrations that result from such an explosion cannot travel in space.

The result of an explosion in space would be the particles that result from such an explosion, which can keep travelling in space as far as possible with their initial high velocities because space is a vacuum that lacks the air resistance and drag force that the earth's atmosphere can confer on such particles to slow them down and reduce their destruction on impact with any other body.

Although, these particles can spread out and/or even breakdown during their travel, thereby reducing the amount of damage they can cause on impact with any other body.

So, the producer can have this particles nearly destroy a nearby spaceship rather than the initially proposed vibrations from the explosion.

Another option is to say the electromagnetic radiation from such an explosion nearly destroy a nearby spaceship. Electromagnetic radiation don't require material medium to travel. So, these ones can travel in space, packing a lot of heat for nearby bodies.

Because most spacecrafts carry fuels and are high energy bodies, such an explosion would release a considerable amount of electromagnetic radiation that is dangerous and can nearly destroy a nearby spaceship. Only nearby spaceships can feel this electromagnetic radiation though, so, it works for the required purpose in the movie.

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