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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.
Can you hear the music of dad’s bowl movements?
Ha! Gotta rip one as they’re listening to the wind in the trees.
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
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.
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
I think this is my favorite comment I’ve read on Lemmy so far.
we hang it on a wall of silence in the room of our imagination
The Langoliers eat it
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.
It’s still there, it’s just in the past now.
“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!”
Yes, this answer, the kid fucked around (asked wiring questions), now it’s time to find out.
If those were likely to happen during our lifetime then they would have already. Now prion disease…
Good night!
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.
🎼
Elect-ro-weak and Higgs field
Staying in a false staaaate
Tun-nel, tun-nel, it alllll falls dowwwwwnThen there are no mass-es
And, more, no inter-act-ions
Mass-less, mass-less, no a-toms nowwwwI listened to this in my head, where did it go?
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
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.
"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.
[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.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
Sounds move very very fast, faster than a runner or a car, so it goes very very far away.
Very good ELI5.
Now do a “Calvin’s Dad” explanation.
Emphasis on the 5, tho.
Like, to the next town over, or even further?
Only way to find out is to get there faster.
But gets slower and more tired as he runs, until he dies?
