system
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human
ELI5: Just saw something that said if you can produce a sound louder than 1100db you can create a black hole that could destroy the galaxy (or something like that), is this true and how does it work?
gpt
That's because the decibel scale is a logarithmic scale and not a linear one.  A 100 decibel force is 10 times as strong as a 90 decibel force and 100 times as strong as an 80 decibel force.  So if you go from 100 to 200 decibels you haven't doubled the strength of the force, you've increased it by a factor of *ten billion*.  A 1100db sound would be 10^100 more intense than a 100db one.  Simply put, the energy required to even generate a sound of such intensity is greater than the entire mass-energy estimate of the whole universe.