Heat. Everything ends up as heat.
Where does the music go?
Submitted 2 years ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Steve@startrek.website 2 years ago
kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 2 years ago
Until the day that even heat dies.
lauha@lemmy.one 2 years 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 2 years ago
Well not all sound.
But yes 99.99%
modus@lemmy.world 2 years ago
So where do smells go?
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 2 years ago
Just open a window. I’m sure they noticed, but they’ll be cool about it.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 years ago
they get trapped in your nose hairs, this is why old people have really stinky noses.
GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
You absorb it into your soul and it changes you irreversibly forever.
StopJoiningWars@discuss.online 2 years ago
“soul”
lmfao.
BilboBargains@lemmy.world 2 years 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 2 years ago
I think this is my favorite comment I’ve read on Lemmy so far.
assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 2 years ago
We didn’t start the music, it was always playing since the world was turning
BilboBargains@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Beautiful. We are just one of many instruments that express the music.
Detheroth@lemmynsfw.com 2 years 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 2 years 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.
psoul@lemmy.world 2 years ago
As the waves from ocean, the music crashes on the beaches in your ears
intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Like sand through your beer glass, these are the waves of our lives
angrystego@lemmy.world 2 years ago
And slowly erodes it.
Alienmonkey@lemm.ee 2 years ago
What?
rhacer@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Everyone knows this duh!
Into your heart!
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Groove is stored in the heart
Slovene@feddit.nl 2 years ago
Where does the light go when you flip the switch?
Check your fridge.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 2 years ago
“Hello, light!” youtu.be/nm1_bKFhYIY
Slovene@feddit.nl 2 years ago
Hello lightness my new friend
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 years ago
It gets stuck in my head for 3 to 4 days until something newer comes along and pushes it out.
art@lemmy.world 2 years ago
It rolls up into the other side of the cassette. Just flip it over.
angrystego@lemmy.world 2 years 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 2 years ago
It turns out the solution to quantum string theory is a double-sided tape.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Sounds move very very fast, faster than a runner or a car, so it goes very very far away.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Very good ELI5.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Now do a “Calvin’s Dad” explanation.
Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
When eli2000BCE? Coming out
Tho needith explanation to the highest degree
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Emphasis on the 5, tho.
espentan@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Like, to the next town over, or even further?
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Only way to find out is to get there faster.
Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 2 years 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 2 years ago
But gets shower and more tired as he runs, until he dies?
Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago
A little bit reflexts off your eardrumm too!
madjo@feddit.nl 2 years ago
It goes into your memory. That’s why you can remember a song that you heard before.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 years ago
That’s why music works at all.
theneverfox@pawb.social 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago
I was into neural net plagiarism before it was cool!
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
The Langoliers eat it.
bitcrafter@programming.dev 2 years 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 2 years ago
You just reminded me of: sh.itjust.works/post/26469474
Warning: may cause big sad
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2 years 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 2 years ago
trouble@lemm.ee 2 years ago
In your ears
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 2 years ago
The Langoliers eat it
bbuez@lemmy.world 2 years 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 2 years ago
the music goes back again to be later re streamed to other people that might need it
jafo@lemmy.world 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago
we hang in on the wall of silence
meowMix2525@lemm.ee 2 years ago
It’s still there, it’s just in the past now.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 2 years ago
It dissipates into the air like butterflies, or a cloud of dust.
TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago
Tell him about the day that music died
Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Great song 👌👌👌
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 2 years 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 2 years ago
If those were likely to hapoen then they wiuld have already. Now prion disease…
Good night!
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Scare me with prion disease?
SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 2 years ago
🎼 Elect-ro-weak and Higgs field Staying in a false staaaate
Tun-nel, tun-nel, it alllll falls dowwwwwn
toynbee@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I listened to this in my head, where did it go?
InputZero@lemmy.world 2 years 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 2 years ago
Does quantum foam occasionally spawn a new big bang
5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years 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 2 years ago
Yes, this answer, the kid fucked around (asked wiring questions), now it’s time to find out.