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.
We didn’t start the music, it was always playing since the world was turning
Beautiful. We are just one of many instruments that express the music.
I think this is my favorite comment I've read on Lemmy so far.
That gave me some real Alan Watts vibes. If this came from your own brain, be proud of this comment. Beautifully worded and inspiring.
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.
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.
Can you hear the music of dad's bowl movements?
Ha! Gotta rip one as they're listening to the wind in the trees.
"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?
Yes, this answer, the kid fucked around (asked questions), now it's time to find out.
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.
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.
Heat. Everything ends up as heat.
Well not all sound.
But yes 99.99%
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
The Langoliers eat it
As the waves from ocean, the music crashes on the beaches in your ears
And slowly erodes it.
What?
Like sand through your beer glass, these are the waves of our lives
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
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
we hang it on a wall of silence in the room of our imagination
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.
Sounds move very very fast, faster than a runner or a car, so it goes very very far away.
Like, to the next town over, or even further?
Only way to find out is to get there faster.
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
But gets slower and more tired as he runs, until he dies?
Everyone knows this duh!
Into your heart!
Groove is stored in the heart
It's still there, it's just in the past now.
It goes into your memory. That's why you can remember a song that you heard before.
That’s why music works at all.
It gets stuck in my head for 3 to 4 days until something newer comes along and pushes it out.
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!
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.
So Lrrr and Ndnd warching Single Female Lawyer 1000 years in the future is a lie?
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
False, it gets stuck in my head, to be played over and over until the next song gets stuck in my head.
A little bit reflexts off your eardrumm too!
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!
The Langoliers eat it.
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.
Some of that sound rearranges some of your neurons so that you can listen to Never Gonna Give You Up whenever you read this
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!
You just reminded me of: https://sh.itjust.works/post/26469474
Warning: may cause big sad
It dissipates into the air like butterflies, or a cloud of dust.
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
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
Tell him about the day that music died
Great song 👌👌👌
"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"
It turns into memories and heat.
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.
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.....
Wowh woah you gotta start with the basics!
...OSI model.
it's sitting on the computer waiting to play again
"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
In your ears
the music goes back again to be later re streamed to other people that might need it
"Where do you think it goes?"
The music stays in your head until your forget it. Music only exists in your head
It stays playing in my head on repeat until a different piece of music replaces it.
I can attest, this is playing in my head right now
"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.
It goes into the ears.
Music is stored in the ears
into our minds and into our hearts
To retire on a farm upstate, unless my mom lied to me 🤔
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:-).
They should show their kid this.
That should be required viewing. For everyone.
(Okay the water coming out the hose was freaky.)
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?
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.
oh when will they ever learn? oh when will they... ever learn
Nothing's really ever gone
What was that subreddit for parents who made up shit about what their kids obviously didn't say?
This goes there.
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.
This is just another variant of "after we turn the lights off, where does the light go?"
This obviously r/thathappened bait.
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.
If we can try with every day
To make it better as it goes
With any luck then I suppose
The music never endsBut actually though, music goes up into the sky and becomes clouds.
The music stays there we keep moving
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.
Why would that be annoying instead of relieving?
It diverges into the quantum realm of misheard lyrics.
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
syncs brain cells for later
[exasperated]
It doesn't go ANYWHERE.
YOU GET IT?YOU have to be the one to catch this stuff.
Culturally.I'm not speaking scientifically. I mean, sound waves shake things up.
But do you want to just be there when sound waves shake things up?
No. You're the first recipient of a cultural event.
ACT LIKE IT. This is a position of immense cultural importance.Completely real story
Kids ask weird things
It goes straight up my ass!
that happened
