Stop the Music

Journal 14: Today, after listening to music for awhile my ears began to ring incessantly.  I had learned that sound resonates and that the blast of my headphones had reverberated in my ears.  In addition I learned that, shown with tuning forks, by placing the fork against another object the sound became amplified.  The sound originally resonating from fork when in contact to the table bounces off and the sound waves travel further and are louder because its molecules are in contact and bump into others such as those of the table the tuning fork was placed against.  Likewise, i recently learned the build-up of earwax can also create such a ringing sound because as the sound waves travel rather than just simply bouncing and coming in touch with the ear drum, like the table, the earwax serves as another medium and object in which the sound waves interact and bounce off as well.  Thus the earwax can amplify the sound being heard and the ring you hear is the sound resonating as the sound molecules vibrate and hit against each other and the wax.  This is one explanation of ear ringing, others include the falling out of an sound receptor follicle, since overtime the vibration of the sound over time loosens up the follicles and a ringing sound occurs as one falls out.  The vibration of the follicle causes the ringing as it falls out and those sound waves resonate as the molecules move back in forth in compressions and rarefactions.  Also the continuous playing of music can damage the follicles and lead to a loss of hearing, aging also generally leads to a loss of hearing as a normal human's hearing range continues to drop from the high 20,000 Hz to lower levels.