if a tree fell in the middle of a wood and nobody heard it would it actually make a noise?

Answer 1

Of course it would make a noise, just because no one hears it it would still send out noise vibrations through the air.

The tree won't decide "Oh, nobody is around so we'll be silent and later on when some people come over you can fall and give them all a big headache".

If something exists it exists. Simple as. Noise exists when a tree falls and the presence, or lack of presence, of a human being is not going to alter that.

Answer 2

The technology of sound does no longer require the reception of that sound for it to be sound, so certain, the tree makes a valid, that is basically that there is not any human being round on the time to take heed to it. The presence or absence of someone with an ear has no longer some thing to do with no matter if sound waves are generated or no longer. a larger question-- If a guy says some thing in the woods and there is not any lady round to take heed to it, is he nevertheless incorrect?

Answer 3

The previous answerer means Schroedinger not Schroeder,

It is a particular position in philosophy that an event needs a witness to be certain of it having occurred. i.e. there is nothing real beyond the evidence of our five senses. That position is called Logical Positivism. You could call it the tyranny of the empirical.

This all started with (Bishop) George Berkeley(1685-1753). Berkeley was one of the three most famous eighteenth century British Empiricists (the others were John Locke and David Hume).

He is best known for his motto, esse is percipi, to be is to be perceived and his espousal of 'subjective idealism'- one of the world's oddest ideas- that things might well have no existence at all outside our consciousness, a concept irritatingly difficult to refute.

While Dr Johnson famously denied Berkeley by kicking a stone and saying 'Sir, I refute it thus!', the theory is neatly summed up in two limericks by the theologian Ronald Knox:

There was a young man who said: 'God
Must find it exceedingly odd
If it seems that this tree
Simply ceases to be
When no-one's about in the Quad'

"Sir, your astonishment's odd:
I am always about in the Quad.
And that's why the tree
Will continue to be,
Since observed by, Yours Faithfully, God".

Answer 4

if a tree fell in the middle of a wood and nobody heard it would it actually make a noise,who gives a s*it the missing letter is a h

Answer 5

what is a noise? how do we know that when were there it actually makes a noise, we might just emagin it, the world could be completly silent for all we know and were emagining the noises based on what we thinks going to happen and telepathy, nah just funnin
if a noise is the sound a tree makes due to impact yes, it must but its only a noise if someone perseves it as one, so the vibrations are not piced up, so its not noise as no ones hereing it, its just vibrateing air particles

Answer 6

Of course, why wouldn't it? The kinetic (movement) energy of the falling tree is transferred into the ground it falls on (leaving an indentation). Some of this energy is also dissipated as sound energy in the form of a 'crashing' sound. Conservation of energy laws state that the same amount of energy is given out, whether there is a somebody to hear it or not.

Answer 7

Scientifically speaking in order for a noise to occur it must be observed by someone. This is something similar to Schroeder's Cat experiment. Without an unbiased observer there is no evidence weather or not a noise was actually made. Without proof of any noise no one can claim for a fact there was a noise.

Answer 8

There is a principle which says that there is no sound unless someone perceives it as sound. This implies a principle of dicsriminatory listening in that you may listen to some sounds and not perceive them, if you are engrossed in something else. Also, sound is said not to be sound unless it is perceived by someone who listens to the soundwaves and identifies it as sound.this implies that communication is enacted by the recipient who indicates reception by eliciting feedback. This means that for the tree to make a sound, it has to be heard by someone and identified for what it is. If it isnt, then there is no sound. So your tree does not make a noise if nobody hears it.

Answer 9

Noise is defined in my dictionary to be a sound, which is a transmitted vibration perceived or perceptible to the ear. This suggests that the sound does not have to be heard to be a sound, it just has to be possible that it could be heard. So on this definition, yes, there is a noise, even though no one hears it, if they would have heard it if they had been there.

Answer 10

Just because I answer your question does that mean I know the answer?
If all existence is dependant on humans being aware of it then there is a lot of non-existent trees not falling in the non-existent parts of the Amazon