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[โ€“] BedInspector@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think eventually you reach a point where previously played notes would lose all of their energy, meaning there's probably an upper limit on how loud it would get for an observer at the end. Something something Doppler effect.

[โ€“] Vigge93@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Not the Doppler effect, as that only applies to moving objects, but instead the inverse square law, where the energy of the sound wave decreases by the square of the distance from the origin, since it spreads in a sphere with the energy being spread across the surface of the sphere, resulting in a very quick dropoff in the loudness.