This question is a relatively popular one. Even I’ve asked myself this before. When an object makes a sound, it travels to your ear and then where? It just disappears?
ZThe answer is relatively simple and well defined: Sound is caused by vibration of air molecules (you know what? any type of molecule) caused by waves, which are also vibrations. Essentially sound is a vibration in a medium. When a sound is made, the sound waves travel through the air to the receiver ( your ears).
Since sound is a wave. It seemingly “disappears” when the the molecules of the medium (air, water, metal, earth, and so on) becomes more stable and keeps vibrating less.
Sound can travel through any known medium. Which means that sound waves can’t travel in vacuum.
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