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
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.
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.
I think this is my favorite comment I’ve read on Lemmy so far.
It rolls up into the other side of the cassette. Just flip it over.
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!
It turns out the solution to quantum string theory is a double-sided tape.
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.
oh when will they ever learn? oh when will they… ever learn
Completely real story
Kids ask weird things
Where does the light go when you flip the switch?
Check your fridge.
“Hello, light!” https://youtu.be/nm1_bKFhYIY
Hello lightness my new friend
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.
As the waves from ocean, the music crashes on the beaches in your ears
And slowly erodes it.
Like sand through your beer glass, these are the waves of our lives
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.
I was into neural net plagiarism before it was cool!
You absorb it into your soul and it changes you irreversibly forever.
It goes into your memory. That’s why you can remember a song that you heard before.
That’s why music works at all.
Heat. Everything ends up as heat.
Well not all sound.
But yes 99.99%
Until the day that even heat dies.
Well, heat just spread over a larger area but it doesn’t get destroyer nor turn into any other form of energy.
But it doesn’t die per se.
If you consider particle excitement to be the definition of heat and subparticle fields to be different forms of energy then it does actually change, but that’s just semantics.
If all discernable heat is unobservable and unobtainable, then semantics don’t matter. Everything still dies. I’d include “heat” in that mix, but that’s waxing philosophical
So where do smells go?
they get trapped in your nose hairs, this is why old people have really stinky noses.
Just open a window. I’m sure they noticed, but they’ll be cool about it.
The Langoliers eat it.