2006-11-29 08:05:20 · 18 answers · asked by goober j 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Absolulutely, positively, yes. 10 points please.
2006-11-29 08:07:46 · answer #1 · answered by answerman63 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, the tree does not make a sound. For sound to exist, it has hit someone's eardrum, and that signal has to be sent to the brain to make a sound. Yes, sound waves are made, but sound and sound waves are not the same thing. For example, if an alien came to earth and it heard things differently then we did, does it necessarily mean the sound is different? No. Sound is what our brain makes of the sound waves that hit our eardrum. Sound is not an actual object, and can be heard as different things depending on our ear structure. Dogs can hear more things than we can, and do we say that the things the dog can hear but we can't are making sound? No. To the dog it is making sound, but to us it is not. The sound does not exist to us, only the dog and other animals that can hear it. Sound has to be perceived to exist.
And if sound was not one of the five senses to any animal, what sound exist at all? No, it wouldn't. Sound waves would exist for us to hear if we could, but again, sound and sound waves are not the same thing.
2006-12-01 14:38:55 · answer #2 · answered by Erin 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NOPE...dont listen to the rest of these NON-bio majors. If a tree falls and NO ONE is there to HERE it, then it does not make a sound. Sound depends on whether it reaches a specific sound receptor and since it can not then the sound goes undeemed as a sound.
2006-12-02 22:47:06 · answer #3 · answered by Lovely*~*Layla 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It will only make sound if there is something or someone there to here it,, there are gillions of noises going on right now beside you and I, but we can only here those sounds in our hearing frequency, if we could here all frequency's we would go nuts from day one, so if there is no one in the forest or a recording devise there is not sound
2006-11-29 16:44:49 · answer #4 · answered by xyz 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you could set a video camera in the forest, then leave it there aimed at a tree. that way even though no one is there when the tree falls, the camera can catch it.
2006-11-29 16:33:54 · answer #5 · answered by a 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes....
Though a man be not present, there are animals and insects present.... and I am certain some of those insects were working on that tree.......
Not only that, but to them, the sound is amplified.......
your sister,
Ginger
2006-11-29 16:18:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the tree will not ake a sound for sound to exist you need two thigs Sound Waves one and A receiver (ear) so no it does not make a sound
2006-11-29 16:34:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
OK, let's beat this dead horse some more.
Sound: that which is heard.
So if nobody is there to hear it, it doesn't make a sound.
On the other hand, animals in the area could hear it, so if you count them, then the answer is yes.
But I really DON'T CARE.
2006-11-29 16:32:23 · answer #8 · answered by fresh2 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fish
2006-11-29 16:11:26 · answer #9 · answered by Plum 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It creates soundwaves but there must be an ear to pick up these soundwaves and hear the sound.
2006-11-29 18:19:36 · answer #10 · answered by Keenu 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sound is a form of mechanical radiant energy, the energy will be there whether there is anything to detect it or not.
2006-11-29 16:54:50 · answer #11 · answered by rich k 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋