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A nuclear explosion may release tremendous amounts of energy in the form of noise, heat, visible light, radiation and an atmospheric shock wave. An observer watching the explosion from the vacuum of nearby space would be able to experience which of these types of energy?

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Think about how each of noise, heat, visible light, radiation and atmospheric shock waves travel. Which ones require air particles to travel?

A vacuum has no air particles within it, it is completely empty.

Therefore, any of the above that requiring particles to travel will not be able to cross it and the observer will not experience it.
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