stackyFACTSPlay two incredibly similar but slightly mismatched notes at once, and they will stubbornly fight each other. The alternating constructive and destructive wave overlaps cause the overall volume to swell up and violently drop down in a bizarre, throbbing acoustic pattern known simply as beats.
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