How come body noises (forced knuckle cracks, & even natural body cracking noises) sometimes are just SO loud?

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I’m vacuuming right now and I just bend down on my knees and I hear a crack. Didn’t feel like a bone crack, but more like maybe I put pressure down on a ligament or something? But it didn’t hurt?

How can it be so loud sometimes when it’s incased in liquids & barriers and such of the human body?

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Nearly all of your bones are open to the air, not hidden behind some barriers. Your bones *are* the barriers. So when a joint between two bones creates a sound, it’s basically as open to the air as your fingers are when you snap.

A lot of the sounds your body makes are mechanically very similar to snapping your fingers as well.

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