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[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 234 points 1 month 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 63 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If those were likely to happen during our lifetime then they would have already. Now prion disease...

Good night!

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[-] SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

🎼
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

[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

I listened to this in my head, where did it go?

[-] SARGE@startrek.website 9 points 1 month ago

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[-] Steve@startrek.website 105 points 1 month ago

Heat. Everything ends up as heat.

[-] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 25 points 1 month ago

Until the day that even heat dies.

[-] lauha@lemmy.one 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

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[-] BilboBargains@lemmy.world 62 points 1 month 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 10 points 1 month ago

I think this is my favorite comment I've read on Lemmy so far.

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[-] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 61 points 1 month ago

You absorb it into your soul and it changes you irreversibly forever.

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[-] psoul@lemmy.world 45 points 1 month ago

As the waves from ocean, the music crashes on the beaches in your ears

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[-] rhacer@lemmy.world 44 points 1 month ago

Everyone knows this duh!

Into your heart!

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[-] Slovene@feddit.nl 38 points 1 month ago

Where does the light go when you flip the switch?

Check your fridge.

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 36 points 1 month ago

It gets stuck in my head for 3 to 4 days until something newer comes along and pushes it out.

[-] art@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago

It rolls up into the other side of the cassette. Just flip it over.

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[-] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago

Sounds move very very fast, faster than a runner or a car, so it goes very very far away.

[-] Ulvain@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 month 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!

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 21 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

So Lrrr and Ndnd warching Single Female Lawyer 1000 years in the future is a lie?

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[-] Clent@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

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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[-] madjo@feddit.nl 26 points 1 month ago

It goes into your memory. That's why you can remember a song that you heard before.

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[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 month ago

The Langoliers eat it.

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[-] Zink@programming.dev 9 points 1 month ago

I was into neural net plagiarism before it was cool!

[-] anaesidemus@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago

it goes into your soul comfy

[-] theneverfox@pawb.social 17 points 1 month 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

[-] bitcrafter@programming.dev 16 points 1 month 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!

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[-] leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl 16 points 1 month ago

the music goes back again to be later re streamed to other people that might need it

[-] trouble@lemm.ee 16 points 1 month ago

In your ears

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month 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.

[-] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

The Langoliers eat it

[-] bbuez@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month 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

[-] jafo@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month 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.

"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"

[-] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 month ago

It turns into memories and heat.

[-] BugleFingers@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Tell him about the day that music died

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[-] meowMix2525@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago

It's still there, it's just in the past now.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

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

[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

It dissipates into the air like butterflies, or a cloud of dust.

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 9 points 1 month 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:-).

[-] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month 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

[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

we hang it on a wall of silence in the room of our imagination

[-] late_night@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 month ago

"Where do you think it goes?"

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