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[–] late_night@sopuli.xyz 8 points 10 months ago

"Where do you think it goes?"

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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.....

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[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Scribbd@feddit.nl 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Can you hear the music of dad's bowl movements?

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Ha! Gotta rip one as they're listening to the wind in the trees.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The music stays in your head until your forget it. Music only exists in your head

[–] Wynnstan@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It stays playing in my head on repeat until a different piece of music replaces it.

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[–] Blackout@fedia.io 5 points 10 months ago

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

[–] JizzmasterD@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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?

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[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

into our minds and into our hearts

[–] Siethron@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

The music stays there we keep moving

[–] Niksolo80@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

It diverges into the quantum realm of misheard lyrics.

[–] Marleyinoc@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] pancakes@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

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

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Nothing's really ever gone

[–] averyminya@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months 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?"

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