My 6-year-old asked where the music goes after we listen to it. I didn’t know whether to go into how sound waves travel, or explain that music isn’t tangible in the way he might think. Maybe this is just a philosophical question. Where DOES the music go?
— Kiss my Fat Ash🍑 (@Tobi_Is_Fab) October 1, 2024
On X, writer @Tobi_Is_Fab, offers up to the world a weighty question posed by her young son.
Most of the replies were philosophical or at least sentimental. The clearest scientific answer that I can find is from the Encyclopedia Britannica:
The music is sound waves and keeps going until the energy that is used to move the air is absorbed by materials it hits, or just dissipates in the air.
— Encyclopedia Britannica (@Britannica) October 2, 2024
In other words, it goes on and on and on and on [fading away]. https://t.co/50e8Tuyuf4
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