Warning: incredibly geeky. I don't even understand some of it.

The loudest a crowd can scream is 123 db.(decibels) And that is pretty loud. But how much would it take to move you? In the video game skyrim there are powerful shouts that can be used against your opponents. More specifically, I'm talking about Unrelenting Force. What would happen to you if you were on the receive end of that shout? What if you were Fus Ro Dah'd? Starting from the bottom of a decibel chart, 0db is the sound of a mosquito 10 feet away. 65 db is the level of someone speaking to you. Then we get to 100db which is the sound of a car stereo at max volume. At 145 your vision starts to vibrate, after 165 your eardrums will just rupture, and once we get to 195 db we no longer have a sound wave, we have a shock wave. For the shout to propel you into the air, and be the equivalent of a high explosive that you were only a few feet from. The intense rise of heat and pressure would blow you backwards, and that blast wave of ripple through your body rupturing your lungs, scorching your skin, and as it transfers through different part of you, going from bones to tissue, to where your joints are, your limbs become incredibly susceptible to being ripped apart. In fact you wouldn't even hear the final word of Fus Ro Dah, since the shock wave would hit you, blowing out your eardrums before the sound could even carry. Once your body finally skids across the ground to a stop you can take solace in knowing that due to Newton's Law Of Motion that every action has an equal and opposite reaction, your attacker would be destroyed as well. But a sonic boom or shock wave doesn't have to be due to a huge explosion What you hear when the tip of a whip cracks is the tip breaking the sound barrier. But lets get really loud and turn it up to 1100db. At 1100 db it is equivalent to 10 to the 98th watts of power which if it lasted for 1/10th of a second would be like the biggest nuclear bomb. (50 megatons) by about 47 quinvigintillion. (79 zeroes or about 4.78x10^79 tons of tnt) So if someone shouted you with that much power it might not blow you away, but pull you in. Because that shout just created a black hole. Nasa estimated the universe's size to be 4x10 to the 69th jule. which is considerably smaller than the shout. Converting this massive energy into mass would give us 1.113x10^80 kilograms which would mean the radius of the event horizon of this Fus Ro Dah black hole would be 1.747x10^37 light years or larger than the diameter of the observable universe Its would quickly spread at the speed of light, devouring the Earth, our Solar System, the Galaxy, and then the universe. So a normal Fus Ro Dah would kill you and be a suicide mission for the one shouting, but a much larger one would devour everything in it's path.

More Information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VGDhGsYoSA ( I used the video for this topic)

Whats wrong?

Unrelenting Force is a pulse of magic, not sound.

Well Technically, it actually is a pulse of sound. it is language. Just not English.

The language only summons the magic. You're being hit with a magic force, not the sound of your voice. The epic echo is just for extra awesomeness.

Believe what you want this is the logical answer.

Not really.

As always, someone correct me if I'm wrong here. "Shouts" are a really loud spell-casting in the language of the dragons. The shout itself is a manifestation of "spirit power." Magic.

EDIT: Ninja'd

No, you make sound to cause it to happen. It's not the sound itself. If it were, then apparently you could summon a dead guy by making a lot of noise (Call of Valor).

Logical in our world, maybe, but not on Tamriel.

There's no reason to believe shouts are sound waves at all.

None of your understand that I'm talking about real life

You can't really draw a comparison. Skyrim has magic woven throughout the world, real life doesn't have magic.

EXACTLY THAT IS WHY I SAID LOGICAL ANSWER.

EDIT: Jeez. But yes, the comparison is that you shout in the game you speak ancient dragon tongue and it is magical. There is no magic irl so the closest thing is shouting. I'm just talking about the shout only.

According to that video which is much easier to look at than the OP's wall of death, I'd be Fus'Ro'dead.

Okay, so to clarify, this is assuming shouts were pure sound instead of magic, not what it would be like in real life since our physics don't really allow us to shout things into action, no matter what Anime says.

The title is pretty misleading, tho.

Yes and I thought the title was perfectly suited.

Logical and magical. The two don't mix. I get what you mean by saying if we were fusrodahd in real life, but we can't compare it. Any amount of sound required to move a human being, even a little, would likely kill us. Something like that would be much more powerful than the Fus Ro Dah actually is.

Well you didn't realize that we did bump it up to 1100 db just to see what happens. That was 2/3 of the paragraph...

So what? The point is the two don't compare in my opinion, because the unrelenting force doesn't have anything to do with sound.

If someone came up to me and shouted that in my face, I would call 999 and have him strapped down in the back of an ambulance.

Well, since I'm being pedantic here, if someone, somehow, were to manage a Fus-Ro-Dah in real life, we'd get sent flying like in the game and only suffer a few bruises from the impact of the shout and collision with the ground/floor. Y'know, assuming we're not standing over a ledge.

The OP is describing a situation where a shout's power is being replicated through sound, which seems to be assuming that shouts are actual sound waves is when they are magic. (Though one could weave some epileptic trees connecting magic and the entire universe to sound or music.)

And with that, I'll take myself and my nitpicky ways out of this thread.

Not to mention, it's fairly clear in-game that all the Shouts (barring a select few) are fairly similar in volume, and there's no suggestion that Fire Breath works by having... flammable breath and some sort of spark activated by it passing your teeth to ignite it?

Are we all seriously trying to figure out what would happen if we were hit by a magical shout? What's next? Figuring out what would happen if Goku shot us dead on with his Kamehameha Wave? (They should totally make that video...)

monkeyemoness has it right: it's assuming that the Dragonborn uses sound waves to fight his/her enemies, not a magical shout attack.

EDIT: Though a comment in the video hypothesizes that the video was really about what would happen if the Dragonborn could and did use sound waves for the Shouts.

EDIT II: Though I do wonder: what exactly would happen if one were on the receiving end of Goku's Kamehameha Wave?

Some popular youtuber actually made a video on this very subject last year. Using "in-depth mature scientific anology" to give a "mature" and "scientific" view on the "FUS, RO, and DAH."

Needless to say, it kind of drives me up the wall.

Sound cannot slow time or conjure storms. Therefore, Unrelenting Force is an act of magic, not sound. Only sound related shout would be Throw Voice...I think.