Heat. Everything ends up as heat.
Where does the music go?
Submitted 5 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Steve@startrek.website 5 weeks ago
kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
Until the day that even heat dies.
lauha@lemmy.one 5 weeks ago
Well, heat just spread over a larger area but it doesn’t get destroyer nor turn into any other form of energy.
Disgracefulone@discuss.online 5 weeks ago
Well not all sound.
But yes 99.99%
modus@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
So where do smells go?
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
Just open a window. I’m sure they noticed, but they’ll be cool about it.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
they get trapped in your nose hairs, this is why old people have really stinky noses.
BilboBargains@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I imagine a physicist would invoke entropy to describe the diffusion of pressure waves and vibration into other forms of energy. Neuroscience might explain the propagation of signals from the cochlea into the brain. A psychologist could hypothesise on the influence of music on our mood and ideas. A philosopher might talk about the influence of music on the way we build our society and how that feeds back into our music. In this way, the music never stops, it continues on as echos rippling through through the universe.
lohky@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I think this is my favorite comment I’ve read on Lemmy so far.
assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
We didn’t start the music, it was always playing since the world was turning
BilboBargains@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Beautiful. We are just one of many instruments that express the music.
Detheroth@lemmynsfw.com 5 weeks ago
That gave me some real Alan Watts vibes. If this came from your own brain, be proud of this comment. Beautifully worded and inspiring.
BilboBargains@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Thank you and funny you should say that because Watts is an inspiration. From a scientific point of view some of his ideas were a little tenuous but as a teacher on the subject of the ineffable he was quite peerless.
GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
You absorb it into your soul and it changes you irreversibly forever.
StopJoiningWars@discuss.online 5 weeks ago
“soul”
lmfao.
psoul@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
As the waves from ocean, the music crashes on the beaches in your ears
intensely_human@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Like sand through your beer glass, these are the waves of our lives
angrystego@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
And slowly erodes it.
Alienmonkey@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
What?
rhacer@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Everyone knows this duh!
Into your heart!
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Groove is stored in the heart
Slovene@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
Where does the light go when you flip the switch?
Check your fridge.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
“Hello, light!” youtu.be/nm1_bKFhYIY
Slovene@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
Hello lightness my new friend
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 weeks ago
It gets stuck in my head for 3 to 4 days until something newer comes along and pushes it out.
art@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
It rolls up into the other side of the cassette. Just flip it over.
angrystego@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I thought the sentense was going to lead to something like “It rolls up into the other 8 inaccessibly tiny dimensions of our space.”
I love your oldschool explanation though!
milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
It turns out the solution to quantum string theory is a double-sided tape.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Sounds move very very fast, faster than a runner or a car, so it goes very very far away.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Very good ELI5.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Now do a “Calvin’s Dad” explanation.
Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
When eli2000BCE? Coming out
Tho needith explanation to the highest degree
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Emphasis on the 5, tho.
espentan@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Like, to the next town over, or even further?
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Only way to find out is to get there faster.
Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
So like can i get like a net and catch it? Like its my music i paid for so like i gotta keep it for safe keeping. Do i gotta go to another town and get it that way???
Lmao im joking Good explanation tho
RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
But gets shower and more tired as he runs, until he dies?
Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
I’m not a scientist by a long shot, but my understanding is that sound if indeed a wave, carried by a medium (air, water, etc). Upon hitting your eardrum, this wave is converted by your eardrum and your auditory nerve into signals your brain decodes. The remainder of the wave continues though, until it runs out of medium, hits an obstacle (basically another medium) or dissipates. Again, just my layman’s understanding!
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
False, it gets stuck in my head, to be played over and over until the next song gets stuck in my head.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
A little bit reflexts off your eardrumm too!
madjo@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
It goes into your memory. That’s why you can remember a song that you heard before.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
That’s why music works at all.
theneverfox@pawb.social 5 weeks ago
It keeps traveling. If you splash some water, where does the wave go? Same question - it terms into something you can no longer see or hear… It never goes away. It becomes part of the world, forever
Music is what you hear - but it was only ever sound waves
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 5 weeks ago
We subconsciously put it into new music years later and thereby keep the industry’s corporate lawyers in cocaine for future decades to come.
Zink@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
I was into neural net plagiarism before it was cool!
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
The Langoliers eat it.
bitcrafter@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
Oh, dear child, it goes to the same place where you will go when you inevitably die one day: into complete non-existence, save for an echo in others’ minds, and after a while not even that.
Sweet dreams!
Slovene@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
You just reminded me of: sh.itjust.works/post/26469474
Warning: may cause big sad
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
The best and the worst go straight to your brain and live there rent free.
Unfortunately, nobody has figured out how toget rid of the bad songs that drown out the good ones.
anaesidemus@hexbear.net 5 weeks ago
trouble@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
In your ears
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
The Langoliers eat it
bbuez@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Some of that sound rearranges some of your neurons so that you can listen to Never Gonna Give You Up whenever you read this
leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
the music goes back again to be later re streamed to other people that might need it
jafo@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
After you listen to a song, the secret police from the RIAA come and lock it up in a small, dank cell given minimal sustenance, until the next time they can send it to some seedy hotel, suburban home, or automobile, to turn a trick and make them some more money, like some sort of whoo-re for the ears.
just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
“Everywhere, all at once. That’s why if you put your ear close to speakers it might collect too much and that can hurt your ear”
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 5 weeks ago
we hang in on the wall of silence
meowMix2525@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
It’s still there, it’s just in the past now.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
It dissipates into the air like butterflies, or a cloud of dust.
TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Oh, and while the king was looking down
The jester stole his thorny crown
The courtroom was adjourned
No verdict was returned
And while Lenin read a book on Marx
A quartet practiced in the park
And we sang dirges in the dark
The day the music died
OpenStars@discuss.online 5 weeks ago
It goes out into the world, to be merged alongside all of the other sounds, until it can be recycled as “new” music and you can enjoy it again:-).
BugleFingers@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Tell him about the day that music died
Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Great song 👌👌👌
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
“Ultimately it increases entropy… let me tell you about the heat death of the universe…”
“No, Mom! I’m still afraid of the False Vacuum monster laying underneath my ground state!”
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
If those were likely to hapoen then they wiuld have already. Now prion disease…
Good night!
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Scare me with prion disease?
SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
🎼 Elect-ro-weak and Higgs field Staying in a false staaaate
Tun-nel, tun-nel, it alllll falls dowwwwwn
toynbee@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I listened to this in my head, where did it go?
InputZero@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
So scientists are not entirely certain about the heat death of the universe. The heat death is the most reasonable prediction given what we know but there could be a force acting across the universe that may very slowly reverse the expansion of the universe that we have yet to discover and cause a big crunch over a ridiculously large amount of time. The fact is predictions that far in the future aren’t really very useful.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Does quantum foam occasionally spawn a new big bang
5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
I read a SciFi book where there was a group in the world that does general science in the name of averting the heat death of the universe.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Yes, this answer, the kid fucked around (asked wiring questions), now it’s time to find out.