Into darkness, my old friend.
I’ve come to talk with you again.
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain Still remains
Within the sound of silence
Where does the music go?
Submitted 7 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Anticorp@lemmy.world 7 months ago
late_night@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
“Where do you think it goes?”
Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
It turns into memories and heat.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
The music stays in your head until your forget it. Music only exists in your head
Wynnstan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It stays playing in my head on repeat until a different piece of music replaces it.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
I can attest, this is playing in my head right now
Dasus@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Let’s assume the kid knows it’s a recording. It’s still a valid question.
Like where is the recording coming from when the kid asks Alexa to play a song?
I never thought about it, as I don’t have kids, but must be a bit harder explaining a global IT-infrastructure than it was for my grandpa to explaining how a VHS works. On a generalised level, that is.
Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
The kid made a mistake asking where music came from. Now me must learn about TCP/IP, NTP and DNS 💀💀💀💀
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 7 months ago
Wowh woah you gotta start with the basics!
…OSI model.
Zozano@lemy.lol 7 months 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 7 months 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 7 months 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 7 months 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.
JizzmasterD@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
It goes on until it doesn’t? Seems like there’s a pseudo-scientific philosophical argument that it continues on forever at some quantum level?
Natanael@slrpnk.net 7 months ago
There’s a physics argument that information can’t be destroyed, so in terms of causality it has an effect (see butterfly effect for reference) but because of various physical thresholds like the planck length, general limits on measurement precision (uncertainty principle, resolution limits, detection limits), chaos theory, etc, at one point it becomes indistinguishable noise.
affiliate@lemmy.world 7 months ago
into our minds and into our hearts
mostdubious@lemmy.world 7 months ago
If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine And my tunes were played on the harp unstrung Would you hear my voice come through the music? Would you hold it near as it were your own? It’s a hand-me-down, the thoughts are broken Perhaps they’re better left unsung I don’t know, don’t really care Let there be songs to fill the air Ripple in still water When there is no pebble tossed Nor wind to blow
therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Completely real story
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 7 months ago
Kids ask weird things
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 7 months ago
oh when will they ever learn? oh when will they… ever learn
Marleyinoc@lemmy.world 7 months ago
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That should be required viewing. For everyone.
(Okay the water coming out the hose was freaky.)
HawlSera@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Nothing’s really ever gone
pancakes@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
But actually though, music goes up into the sky and becomes clouds.
Siethron@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The music stays there we keep moving
Niksolo80@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It diverges into the quantum realm of misheard lyrics.
Coreidan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It goes straight up my ass!
kaffiene@lemmy.world 7 months ago
As someone with a degree in Philosophy, I don’t think this is really a philosophical question. The science is interesting and useful to know
m3t00@lemmy.world 7 months ago
syncs brain cells for later
blibla@slrpnk.net 7 months ago
that happened
averyminya@beehaw.org 7 months ago
Sound is just the vibrations of the air, so as music fades, the air calms. Echoes, reverberance, they are just a result of sound “dampening”, and as each sound wave hits a surface that it reflects from the sound waves are also dampened.
So is the question where does music go? Or is it really, “where does silence come from?”
alienghic@slrpnk.net 7 months ago
My guess is the music goes into the past, leaving echos in your memories.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 7 months ago
**“And can you please tell me, oh
Where do broken hearts go?
Can they find their way home
Back to the open arms
Of a love that’s waiting there?
And if somebody loves you
Won’t they always love you?”**Really reminded me of this - the incorrect, useless, but poetic answer could be that kit it’s just like with love.
Mammothmothman@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
It goes into the ears.
Agent641@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Music is stored in the ears
cheesymoonshadow@lemmings.world 7 months ago
If we can try with every day
To make it better as it goes
With any luck then I suppose
The music never endsmindbleach@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Category error.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
The truth in simple. I was annoyed to learn that there aren’t any crawlies that go back up your throath if you swallow toothpaste.
qarbone@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Why would that be annoying instead of relieving?
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 7 months 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 7 months ago
Can you hear the music of dad’s bowl movements?
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Ha! Gotta rip one as they’re listening to the wind in the trees.