Where does the music go?
Where does the music go?
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Heat. Everything ends up as heat.
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Well not all sound.
But yes 99.99%
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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.
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I think this is my favorite comment I've read on Lemmy so far.
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We didn’t start the music, it was always playing since the world was turning
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Beautiful. We are just one of many instruments that express the music.
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That gave me some real Alan Watts vibes. If this came from your own brain, be proud of this comment. Beautifully worded and inspiring.
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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.
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You absorb it into your soul and it changes you irreversibly forever.
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"soul"
lmfao.
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As the waves from ocean, the music crashes on the beaches in your ears
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Like sand through your beer glass, these are the waves of our lives
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And slowly erodes it.
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What?
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Everyone knows this duh!
Into your heart!
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Groove is stored in the heart
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Where does the light go when you flip the switch?
Check your fridge.
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"Hello, light!" https://youtu.be/nm1_bKFhYIY
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Hello lightness my new friend
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It gets stuck in my head for 3 to 4 days until something newer comes along and pushes it out.
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It rolls up into the other side of the cassette. Just flip it over.
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I thought the sentence 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!
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It turns out the solution to quantum string theory is a double-sided tape.
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Sounds move very very fast, faster than a runner or a car, so it goes very very far away.
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Like, to the next town over, or even further?
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Only way to find out is to get there faster.
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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
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But gets slower and more tired as he runs, until he dies?
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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!
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Don’t forget the inverse square law. Even without a change in medium or any obstacles, the strength of the signal decrease over distance until it is undetectable.
This is also why there are no extraterrestrial civilizations hearing any radio broadcasts from Earth. Our transmitters are so weak that any signals we send out fade into the CMB before they get any real distance.
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So Lrrr and Ndnd warching Single Female Lawyer 1000 years in the future is a lie?
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You area conflating auditory waves with radio waves.
These are very much not the same thing. Sound waves require a medium while radio waves do not.
Radio waves travel vast distances through space while sound doesn't travel at all.
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If they didn't fade with distance,
So for now we are still quiet in the dark forest. -
If we had FTL I'd be a radio archaeologist, flying out to various distances to attempt to capture lost episodes of old TV shows like Doctor Who
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A little bit reflexts off your eardrumm too!
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False, it gets stuck in my head, to be played over and over until the next song gets stuck in my head.
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It goes into your memory. That's why you can remember a song that you heard before.
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That’s why music works at all.
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It stays in our brain and we subconsciously put it into new music years later, thereby keeping the industry’s corporate lawyers in cocaine for future decades to come.
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I was into neural net plagiarism before it was cool!
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The Langoliers eat it.
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it goes into your soul
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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
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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!
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You just reminded me of: https://sh.itjust.works/post/26469474
Warning: may cause big sad
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In your ears
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the music goes back again to be later re streamed to other people that might need it
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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.
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The Langoliers eat it
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Some of that sound rearranges some of your neurons so that you can listen to Never Gonna Give You Up whenever you read this
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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.
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"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"
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It turns into memories and heat.
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Tell him about the day that music died
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Great song đź‘Śđź‘Śđź‘Ś
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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
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It's still there, it's just in the past now.
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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:-).
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It dissipates into the air like butterflies, or a cloud of dust.
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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
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"Where do you think it goes?"
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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.
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The kid made a mistake asking where music came from. Now me must learn about TCP/IP, NTP and DNS 💀💀💀💀
The kid is gonna need naptime and to clear the next 3 years of his schedule. This is gonna get complicated.....
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Wowh woah you gotta start with the basics!
...OSI model.
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it's sitting on the computer waiting to play again
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"how is it now playing here in the car if it's on the computer at home...?"
edit also "a computer at home" feels fairly outdated, when even very young kids have smartphones
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we hang it on a wall of silence in the room of our imagination
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The music stays in your head until your forget it. Music only exists in your head
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It stays playing in my head on repeat until a different piece of music replaces it.
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I can attest, this is playing in my head right now
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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. When you start listening again, music comes back. Then ask if they can hear the music of the wind.
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Can you hear the music of dad's bowl movements?
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Ha! Gotta rip one as they're listening to the wind in the trees.
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To retire on a farm upstate, unless my mom lied to me 🤔
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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?
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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.
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into our minds and into our hearts
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Nothing's really ever gone
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It diverges into the quantum realm of misheard lyrics.
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They should show their kid this.
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That should be required viewing. For everyone.
(Okay the water coming out the hose was freaky.)
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The music stays there we keep moving
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But actually though, music goes up into the sky and becomes clouds.
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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?"
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oh when will they ever learn? oh when will they... ever learn
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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
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syncs brain cells for later
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Category error.
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My guess is the music goes into the past, leaving echos in your memories.
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Tell 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.
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Why would that be annoying instead of relieving?
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"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 it's just like with love. Into the open arms of the music thats waiting there.
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It goes into the ears.
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Music is stored in the ears
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If we can try with every day
\ To make it better as it goes
\ With any luck then I suppose
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It goes straight up my ass!
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that happened
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Completely real story
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Kids ask weird things
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What was that subreddit for parents who made up shit about what their kids obviously didn't say?
This goes there.
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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.
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This is just another variant of "after we turn the lights off, where does the light go?"
This obviously r/thathappened bait.
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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.
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"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!"
If those were likely to happen during our lifetime then they would have already. Now prion disease...
Good night!
Scare me with prion disease?
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Elect-ro-weak and Higgs field
Staying in a false staaaate
Tun-nel, tun-nel, it alllll falls dowwwwwn
Then there are no mass-es
And, more, no inter-act-ions
Mass-less, mass-less, no a-toms nowwww
I listened to this in my head, where did it go?
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.
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.
Does quantum foam occasionally spawn a new big bang
Yes, this answer, the kid fucked around (asked questions), now it's time to find out.