How do our ears hear music?
Ear's Tiny Symphony
How do our ears hear music?
You press play, and suddenly your favorite song fills the room. But how does invisible sound turn into music inside your head? The answer is a tiny engineering miracle happening right now, inside your ears.
Sound starts as vibration — a guitar string shivers, a drum skin bounces, a speaker cone pumps back and forth. Each push shoves air molecules forward. Those molecules bump their neighbors, who bump theirs, creating a wave that travels outward like ripples on a pond.
