• 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.de
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    94
    ·
    4 hours 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!”

    • snooggums@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      27
      ·
      edit-2
      4 hours ago

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

      Good night!

    • SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      edit-2
      3 hours 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

        • Miles O'Brien@startrek.website
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          ·
          39 minutes ago

          A̷̙͂̀̐̾̋̌̒̉̀̿̃͘̚L̴̡̬͓̩͕̭̱̻̹͚̦͉̱͉̪̾͑̾̈͘Ļ̸̢̛̤̯̦͇͉̭̱͚̜̰́̂́̃͐͛́͗͊̾́͗̑̏̄͘͜ ̷̢͈̏̈́̀̈́̀̀̆B̶̢̡͙͉̖̰͓̯͎͉̣͇͆̅̄͛̅̈̌̉̑͘͝Ę̴̨̖̜̺̮̟̻̱̬̮͉̯͕͇̰̺͌̐̓̐̍̇̆̄̔Ĉ̸̢̢̡̧̛͉̩̭̭͇̞͇͇̲͙̺̱͆̑̊͊̌͑̚̚͘͝͠ͅÖ̷̢̫̐͌M̵̨̼͚̝̝̳̿̏̈́̈́̐̽͘͝ͅE̵̡̼̖̺̩̪̥͖̣̻̺̎͌̾̈̈̂͆͒̕S̸̼̒͛̈ ̶̠͙̦̰͕̻̪͕̟̻̮̹̰͎̣̅̊̀̌̋̐̀̏̽̎̇͑̄͘͘͠T̴̨̤̲͉̟̞̙̫͉͂͆̔͊͛͌̍̈͊̈́̈́̽̕͜ͅH̵̱̬̭͖̙̜̲̘͔̬͆͊̈̏ͅĘ̵̧̳̮̤͖̫̪͍̦͖̖̯̥͈̦̈́̈́͋͐͆̒̆̈́͊̾͘̕͠ ̵̖̜̫͇͙͐̿̃́͊͑̀́̈́̀̉͋͌͒̓͝V̴̡̭̺̻͊͑̿́͒O̸̡͕̫̦̞̫̘͈̻͎̳̊Ḯ̷̖̥̫͖͉̖̜͚͕̹̣̙͚̯̯́̊̉̄́͛͑͌̃̄́̓̈͜͜D̵̨̢̛̳̻͓̘͙̞͍̠̺͖͓̟̳͌̊͋̿̀͑̈́̏̆̀̒̒̈̄̇́

  • Ulvain@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    22
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    4 hours 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
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      19
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      4 hours 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.

      • Clent@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        8
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        3 hours 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.

        • Nougat@fedia.io
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          2
          arrow-down
          7
          ·
          3 hours ago

          Space is a medium, as exemplified by the fact that light curves around massive objects, because the space is curved.

          • huginn@feddit.it
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            7
            ·
            2 hours ago

            Space isn’t a medium because mediums have privileged frames of reference.

            You’re talking about spacetime which is a field, not a medium.

            • Nougat@fedia.io
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              1
              arrow-down
              2
              ·
              44 minutes ago

              So you’re saying that light can travel through not-space?

      • Rhaedas@fedia.io
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        2 hours ago

        If they didn’t fade with distance, this is as far as they have gotten. So for now we are still quiet in the dark forest.

  • bitcrafter@programming.dev
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    10
    ·
    3 hours 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!

  • OpenStars@discuss.online
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    3 hours 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:-).

  • averyminya@beehaw.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    3 hours 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?”