If no-one can gear it does it qualify as being no noise because noise is sound and if you can't hear the sound it makes no noise?
2006-08-09 08:11:54 · 11 answers · asked by lucy_goose 3 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
using the same philosphy, you could ask the question: if in the middle of the night, a woman is raped and killed and the act is committed 1000km from any civilization, does she get raped and killed?
OF COURSE SHE DOES. just because you do not see or hear it does not mean that she does not cry out for help or that this horrific act does not occur! I'm sure the policemen (or whoever discovers her body) would agree that she was raped and killed. even if the evidence isn't found right away.
So, yes. The stupid tree makes noise. Even though no human is there, more than likely, there is another living thing that has interpreted the falling tree to have a sound when it falls to the earth (or wherever it lands).
2006-08-09 08:27:55 · answer #1 · answered by one_sera_phim 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This depends on a variety of factors. For instance if the forest is devoid of air or any other transportive medium then no there is no noise generated.
Also with the lack of an observer the course of events is never certain(quantum uncertainty) just as Shroedingers cat is both dead and alive in the classic paradox the tree both makes and does not make a sound until it is observed to be one way or the other. In the total lack of observers case the noise the tree might have created remains a quantum uncertainty and not a factual accuracy.
2006-08-09 17:48:01 · answer #2 · answered by sd d 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course it makes a noise...and just because no human being was there to hear it doesn't mean it didn't make a noise...oh and by the way i heard that question before...try being original next time!
2006-08-09 15:51:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Even if you're not there, someone else will be there. Forest animals will be able to interpret the sound as sound; therefore, YES, the tree will produce *interpretable* sound as it hits the ground.
2006-08-09 15:16:21 · answer #4 · answered by thatsie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it will still make noise. Just because we wouldn't hear it wouldn't mean that it made no sound.
2006-08-09 15:18:42 · answer #5 · answered by jill45690 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on how you define "noise". If noise is an unpleasant sound, then No. If noise is ANT sound, then Yes.
2006-08-09 15:22:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes it will make noise cause the forest is never empty and animals count cause they can hear too.
2006-08-09 15:21:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes they laws of science still exist even if you are not present to observe them . Sound would still exist
2006-08-09 15:19:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have a brain and the brain makes no noise, how do we really know that you have a brain???
:o)
2006-08-09 16:27:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It will create sound waves wheither they are heard or not.
2006-08-09 15:24:16 · answer #10 · answered by Adam B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋