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human
ELI5: Can a 'loud' sound frequency outside of our hearing range cause damage to our ears?
gpt
Sound is the vibration of an object. Our ears translate sound to our brains by turning the vibrating energy into electrical energy. They're tuned by tissue thickness and flexibility to pick up a range from 20 vibrations per second to about 20,000 vibrations per second.

Sounds outside this range are still vibrating the air, which mean the ear drum is vibrating whenever any sound occurs. Too much vibration causes damage to the drum. Since that vibration goes through some bones then on to the cochlea (which has hairs to sense high or low pitch), those parts can also be damaged. Enough vibration, even though outside our range of hearing, can damage the parts that hear sounds within our normal range.

To put it more simply, the ear can only detect one set of sounds, but is affected by all.