Heat. Everything ends up as heat.
Where does the music go?
Submitted 6 days ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Steve@startrek.website 6 days ago
kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 6 days ago
Until the day that even heat dies.
lauha@lemmy.one 6 days 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 days ago
Well not all sound.
But yes 99.99%
modus@lemmy.world 6 days ago
So where do smells go?
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
Just open a window. I’m sure they noticed, but they’ll be cool about it.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
they get trapped in your nose hairs, this is why old people have really stinky noses.
BilboBargains@lemmy.world 5 days 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 days ago
I think this is my favorite comment I’ve read on Lemmy so far.
assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 4 days ago
We didn’t start the music, it was always playing since the world was turning
BilboBargains@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Beautiful. We are just one of many instruments that express the music.
Detheroth@lemmynsfw.com 4 days 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 4 days 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 days ago
You absorb it into your soul and it changes you irreversibly forever.
StopJoiningWars@discuss.online 4 days ago
“soul”
lmfao.
psoul@lemmy.world 5 days ago
As the waves from ocean, the music crashes on the beaches in your ears
intensely_human@lemm.ee 5 days ago
Like sand through your beer glass, these are the waves of our lives
rhacer@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Everyone knows this duh!
Into your heart!
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Groove is stored in the heart
art@lemmy.world 5 days ago
It rolls up into the other side of the cassette. Just flip it over.
angrystego@lemmy.world 5 days 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 days ago
It turns out the solution to quantum string theory is a double-sided tape.
Slovene@feddit.nl 5 days ago
Where does the light go when you flip the switch?
Check your fridge.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 5 days ago
“Hello, light!” youtu.be/nm1_bKFhYIY
Slovene@feddit.nl 5 days ago
Hello lightness my new friend
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 days ago
It gets stuck in my head for 3 to 4 days until something newer comes along and pushes it out.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Sounds move very very fast, faster than a runner or a car, so it goes very very far away.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Very good ELI5.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Now do a “Calvin’s Dad” explanation.
Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
When eli2000BCE? Coming out
Tho needith explanation to the highest degree
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Emphasis on the 5, tho.
espentan@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Like, to the next town over, or even further?
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Only way to find out is to get there faster.
Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 5 days 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 days ago
But gets shower and more tired as he runs, until he dies?
Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 6 days 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 6 days 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 6 days ago
A little bit reflexts off your eardrumm too!
madjo@feddit.nl 5 days ago
It goes into your memory. That’s why you can remember a song that you heard before.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 5 days ago
That’s why music works at all.
theneverfox@pawb.social 5 days 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 days 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 days ago
I was into neural net plagiarism before it was cool!
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 5 days ago
The Langoliers eat it
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 5 days 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.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
The Langoliers eat it.
bitcrafter@programming.dev 6 days 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 days ago
You just reminded me of: sh.itjust.works/post/26469474
Warning: may cause big sad
anaesidemus@hexbear.net 6 days ago
bbuez@lemmy.world 5 days 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
trouble@lemm.ee 6 days ago
In your ears
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 4 days ago
All these physics answers! The funnest explanation for a kid is just that music is only there when you’re listening to it. If you don’t listen, there’s no music. Then ask if they can hear the music of the wind.
Scribbd@feddit.nl 4 days ago
Can you hear the music of dad’s bowl movements?
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Ha! Gotta rip one as they’re listening to the wind in the trees.
leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl 6 days ago
the music goes back again to be later re streamed to other people that might need it
jafo@lemmy.world 5 days 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.
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 4 days ago
we hang in on the wall of silence
meowMix2525@lemm.ee 5 days ago
It’s still there, it’s just in the past now.
just_an_average_joe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days 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”
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 5 days ago
It dissipates into the air like butterflies, or a cloud of dust.
TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 6 days 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
Zozano@lemy.lol 4 days ago
What was that subreddit for parents who made up shit about what their kids obviously didn’t say?
This goes there.
Kacarott@aussie.zone 4 days ago
What was the subreddit that makes fun of people who never believe that kids ever say anything bizarre or ask unusual questions?
Your comment belongs there.
Zozano@lemy.lol 4 days ago
This is just another variant of “after we turn the lights off, where does the light go?”
This obviously r/thathappened bait.
tehmics@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I can’t say this did or didn’t happen, but I absolutely had ‘philosophical’ thoughts like this as a kid.
When I was ~10 I asked my mom how we know other people aren’t ‘aliens or something’. She just dismissed me as being silly, and I didn’t know it at the time but in retrospect I was absolutely experiencing and asking her about solipsism.
I didn’t know it was ‘philosophy’ but I think it’s integral to how we experience the world and sentience in general.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days 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 6 days ago
If those were likely to hapoen then they wiuld have already. Now prion disease…
Good night!
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Scare me with prion disease?
SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 6 days ago
🎼 Elect-ro-weak and Higgs field Staying in a false staaaate
Tun-nel, tun-nel, it alllll falls dowwwwwn
toynbee@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I listened to this in my head, where did it go?
InputZero@lemmy.world 5 days 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 days ago
Does quantum foam occasionally spawn a new big bang
5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days 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 4 days ago
Yes, this answer, the kid fucked around (asked wiring questions), now it’s time to find out.