If a tree falls and no one is around...will it make a sound when it hits the ground?

Question

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Answer 1

Yeah, it will produce a compression wave in the air - which is the definition of sound. It doesnt matter if someone is there to hear it or not. A sound is still made.

Answer 2

Yes. Whether anybody hears it or not. It's like doing something good for somebody anonymously. Somebody knows besides the giver and the recipient.

This is to sweet Ann. You know who you are and I don't know how else to get hold of you. I can't reach you through "reply" or your email address. I tried and tried.

God bless you, Anne!

My sister Laura has breast cancer. They caught hers too late. Even before this with her and Lana, I wore the pink bracelets. Now they hit very close to the heart for me.

My sister's had a good and rich life. To have asked anything for her might have seemed too selfish. We don't like it, but we accept it. She's also a very generous and giving person.

Lana's very poor and she's already "paid it forward" her whole life. She never asks anything for herself. I figured the only way she'd ever let anybody do anything else for her was if somebody who would never miss it (like the saintly Oprah) would give it to her. Even then, Oprah would probably have to promise Lana she'd do it for somebody else, too, or she'd never allow it. Believe me, I know her and I've tried and tried.

I edited my question to make it a little better. I was afraid some of it might come across wrong, even though I tried hard to do my best the first time. I think it sounds a little better now.

I've been writing and redoing this all afternoon. I have to get up and go to work in ninety minutes, so I'd better finish!

Thanks for paying it forward, Anne! God bless you. I hope we can make a difference in somebody's life.

doug
Ohio (Please don't hold that against me. I love Michigan.)

Even if nobody is around to answer it, I have the Faith that this tree's falling will be heard. Thanks, and sorry for intruding.

Answer 3

I know for a fact it does.
I left a camera recording and a tree fell.. it recorded everything, including the sound, which proves that the tree did make a sound.
I made sure nobody was there to witness the event, and I myself left before the tree fell.
So, the smart *** question is finally solved!!!

Answer 4

Yes, a tree hitting the ground will still produce sound waves regardless if there is anyone around to hear it.
Also, what about the animals in the vicinity? Will they hear it?

Answer 5

This event will produce sound waves. Sound waves are not sound. It is only waves traveling through the air. An ear to perceive the sound does not hear either. It only reads the information in the waves and sends it to the brain. Only the brain interprets the information and converts it to sound. No brain .. no sound Ask yourself this question: Do radio waves make a sound.... no ... only a radio can picks up the waves and interprets the information and then converts it to sound waves. no radio... no sound.

Answer 6

If I light a candle in an empty closet, does it produce light?
Of course it does! People are so self centered. Just because no one hears or senses a physical phenomenom does'nt mean it did happen.

Just because the sun appears to be rotating around the earth, doesnt mean that it is. Your senses are finite and can be wrong.

Just because you hear voices in your head doesnt mean someone is talking to you.

Answer 7

Of course it will It has to set off sound waves

Answer 8

Yes of course it will even if nobody is there (witch is very unlikely to occur) it will have to make a sound

Answer 9

I hid in the forest so the tree couldn't see me when it fell and it did make noise.

Coach

Answer 10

Of course just because no one knows it falls because they never heard it doesnt mean it never did.