Heat. Everything ends up as heat.
Where does the music go?
Submitted 7 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Steve@startrek.website 7 months ago
kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 7 months ago
Until the day that even heat dies.
lauha@lemmy.one 7 months 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 6 months ago
Well not all sound.
But yes 99.99%
modus@lemmy.world 7 months ago
So where do smells go?
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Just open a window. I’m sure they noticed, but they’ll be cool about it.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
they get trapped in your nose hairs, this is why old people have really stinky noses.
GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
You absorb it into your soul and it changes you irreversibly forever.
StopJoiningWars@discuss.online 6 months ago
“soul”
lmfao.
BilboBargains@lemmy.world 6 months 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 6 months ago
I think this is my favorite comment I’ve read on Lemmy so far.
assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 6 months ago
We didn’t start the music, it was always playing since the world was turning
BilboBargains@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Beautiful. We are just one of many instruments that express the music.
Detheroth@lemmynsfw.com 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months ago
As the waves from ocean, the music crashes on the beaches in your ears
intensely_human@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Like sand through your beer glass, these are the waves of our lives
angrystego@lemmy.world 6 months ago
And slowly erodes it.
Alienmonkey@lemm.ee 6 months ago
What?
rhacer@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Everyone knows this duh!
Into your heart!
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Groove is stored in the heart
Slovene@feddit.nl 6 months ago
Where does the light go when you flip the switch?
Check your fridge.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 6 months ago
“Hello, light!” youtu.be/nm1_bKFhYIY
Slovene@feddit.nl 6 months ago
Hello lightness my new friend
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 months ago
It gets stuck in my head for 3 to 4 days until something newer comes along and pushes it out.
art@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It rolls up into the other side of the cassette. Just flip it over.
angrystego@lemmy.world 6 months 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 6 months ago
It turns out the solution to quantum string theory is a double-sided tape.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Sounds move very very fast, faster than a runner or a car, so it goes very very far away.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Very good ELI5.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Now do a “Calvin’s Dad” explanation.
Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
When eli2000BCE? Coming out
Tho needith explanation to the highest degree
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Emphasis on the 5, tho.
espentan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Like, to the next town over, or even further?
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Only way to find out is to get there faster.
Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 6 months 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 6 months ago
But gets shower and more tired as he runs, until he dies?
Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 7 months 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 7 months 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 7 months ago
A little bit reflexts off your eardrumm too!
madjo@feddit.nl 6 months ago
It goes into your memory. That’s why you can remember a song that you heard before.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 6 months ago
That’s why music works at all.
theneverfox@pawb.social 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months ago
I was into neural net plagiarism before it was cool!
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
The Langoliers eat it.
bitcrafter@programming.dev 7 months 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 6 months ago
You just reminded me of: sh.itjust.works/post/26469474
Warning: may cause big sad
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 6 months 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 7 months ago
trouble@lemm.ee 7 months ago
In your ears
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The Langoliers eat it
bbuez@lemmy.world 7 months 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 7 months ago
the music goes back again to be later re streamed to other people that might need it
jafo@lemmy.world 6 months 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 7 months 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 6 months ago
we hang in on the wall of silence
meowMix2525@lemm.ee 6 months ago
It’s still there, it’s just in the past now.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It dissipates into the air like butterflies, or a cloud of dust.
TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 7 months 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 7 months 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 7 months ago
Tell him about the day that music died
Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Great song 👌👌👌
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months 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 7 months ago
If those were likely to hapoen then they wiuld have already. Now prion disease…
Good night!
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Scare me with prion disease?
SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 7 months ago
🎼 Elect-ro-weak and Higgs field Staying in a false staaaate
Tun-nel, tun-nel, it alllll falls dowwwwwn
toynbee@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I listened to this in my head, where did it go?
InputZero@lemmy.world 6 months 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 6 months ago
Does quantum foam occasionally spawn a new big bang
5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months 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 6 months ago
Yes, this answer, the kid fucked around (asked wiring questions), now it’s time to find out.