Where does the music go?

"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?
🎼
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
- I listened to this in my head, where did it go?
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.
- I read a SciFi book where there was a group in the world that does general science in the name of averting the heat death of the universe.
Yes, this answer, the kid fucked around (asked questions), now it's time to find out.

Heat. Everything ends up as heat.

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.
So where do smells go?
- Just open a window. I'm sure they noticed, but they'll be cool about it.
- they get trapped in your nose hairs, this is why old people have really stinky noses.
Well not all sound.
But yes 99.99%

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

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

And slowly erodes it.
- What?

Everyone knows this duh!

Into your heart!

Where does the light go when you flip the switch?

Check your fridge.

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 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?
- 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.
- 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
A little bit reflexts off your eardrumm too!

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

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?

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

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

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 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 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.

The Langoliers eat it

The Langoliers eat it.

Some of that sound rearranges some of your neurons so that you can listen to Never Gonna Give You Up whenever you read this

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.

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

In your ears

Tell him about the day that music died

Great song 👌👌👌

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

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

"Where do you think it goes?"

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

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

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.....
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

To retire on a farm upstate, unless my mom lied to me 🤔

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.

into our minds and into our hearts

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:-).

The music stays there we keep moving

They should show their kid this.

That should be required viewing. For everyone.
(Okay the water coming out the hose was freaky.)

But actually though, music goes up into the sky and becomes clouds.

It diverges into the quantum realm of misheard lyrics.

Nothing's really ever gone

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

oh when will they ever learn? oh when will they... ever learn

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?"

that happened

syncs brain cells for later

It goes into the ears.

Music is stored in the ears

It goes straight up my ass!

Category error.

If we can try with every day
\ To make it better as it goes
\ With any luck then I suppose
\ The music never ends

"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.

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.

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?

My guess is the music goes into the past, leaving echos in your memories.