Well, let's see. We need to use sophisticated instruments before we can quantify it in decibels. If decibels translates into sound , to be measured, than a falling tree would generate enough decibels on measuring instruments, which would mean that the tree generated sound in falling down. It would also generate enough vibration to register on the richter scale. That would mean a small tremor. So now, we are moving into earth quake measurements.
Are we all still There? If you are, I am way past the outpost into the outhouse and what do you measure smell with? Dang it, with all these fancy names for fancy gadgets......
2007-02-06 12:53:46
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answered by angstrom 4
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Sound is the stimulation of the hearing organs by vibrations transmitted through the air. If no one is there to hear it, then stupid people will tell you that no, it doesn't make a sound. However, just because no one is there to hear it, doesn't mean it doesn't make a sound. It just means no one heard it. Philosophy would tell you that if you're not there to hear it, how do you KNOW it makes a sound to begin with? Of course, if you drill down into that thinking, one could argue that how do you even know the tree exists to begin with? Well if the tree doesn't exist, then how do you know you even exist? Maybe sound is just an illusion perpetrated by a crazy scientist secretly controlling the world. Maybe we're just a brain in a jar hooked up to a big supercomputer and this is just a dream. Even still, if you actually DID experience the tree falling by seeing and/or hearing it, you still can't say whether or not it made a sound, because for all we know, that could've been a hallucination, and never happened to begin with. The matter is that this is just a question posed to force someone to think outside the box. Again, if you want to look at it scientifically, yes, it makes a sound. Philosophically, you don't know if it makes a sound, because you don't really know if anything exists at all.
2016-05-24 01:25:13
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answered by Anonymous
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Yes. Go test it with a recorder to be sure though. Lol Yahoo Answer Rat. To those who said it has reverbarate off an eardrum... the question was "not 1 person" - it could be either multiple people or an animal there to hear it. Try to find woods without animals.
2007-02-06 12:45:57
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answered by Bored Enough To Be Here 6
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The more important question is did it make a sound to "you". Sound is defined as such:
a particular auditory impression : TONE
b: the sensation perceived by the sense of hearing
c : mechanical radiant energy that is transmitted by longitudinal pressure waves in a material medium (as air) and is the objective cause of hearing
Hearing is defined as:
the process, function, or power of perceiving sound; specifically : the special sense by which noises and tones are received as stimuli
the defination of "Not One person" is No Person so that in reality, the phrase can be interpreted to ask. "If a tree fell in the woods and no person was there to hear it, does it make itself heard?"
Which would mean of course NOT!!
2007-02-06 12:50:35
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answered by OverShiNe 2
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Get a recorder.
Put it near a tree
Circle the tree with beavers
Run away from tree
Come back in an hour to see if tree has been felled
If so, rewind tape and listen for sound
If you hear sound.....it was from the tree
2007-02-06 12:50:27
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answered by phillyvic 4
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The sound waves travel outward from the fallen tree, but still . . . there is no person to pick them up. I waver on this one most of the time. The way you word the question, though, makes me say 'yes' because chances are high that an animal hears it :)
2007-02-06 12:48:37
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answered by LeizyGriezy 2
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If a man expresses an opinion and no woman hears it is he still wrong?
Sorry had to throw that in there. To answer your question, by definition it seems as though it would.
Sound: mechanical radiant energy that is transmitted by longitudinal pressure waves in a material medium (as air) and is the objective cause of hearing.
2007-02-06 12:46:18
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answered by Anonymous
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There are still sound vibrations, but if nobodies there to hear them then its not a sound. it becomes a sound when it reaches your eardrum. But if there are animals or something then its a sound.
P.S. This is really weird because i just read this in a book today. It's so weird when things happen like that.
2007-02-06 16:22:27
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answered by Becky C 1
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depends on your definition of sound.
is sound the effect upon the atmosphere/surroundingsof the vibrations caused by the falling tree.
OR
is sound a concept that is meaningless without context. if so, then without anyone to hear it, the tree created vibrations but not sound,
2007-02-06 12:58:06
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answered by Act D 4
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Yes
2007-02-06 12:46:06
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answered by Anonymous
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