2007-02-15 03:00:40 · 22 answers · asked by De-de 2 in Environment
If I speak in a forest and my wife isn't there, am I still wrong?
2007-02-15 03:06:17 · answer #1 · answered by leedsmikey 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would say no, the noise is created when your brain converts the air disturbance (caused by the falling tree) that is moving your eardrums. The tape recorder captures the noise in much the same way (the microphone acting as the ear) but by my argument the noise wouldn't technically be made until you played back the recording to yourself.
You could debate this one until the cows come home. Think about the following. If you are wearing ear plugs (that are good enough to shield out any 'noise') but watching the tree fall down, does it still make a noise?
2007-02-15 11:35:13 · answer #2 · answered by cobrabarmc 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
if a deaf squirrel was up the tree he would crap a hazel nut onto a mouse underneath when he felt the first movement, and the mouse could get out of the way before the tree hit him. At least the mouse could escape before the tree fell and made a noise..just in case there was nobody around to hear anything to shout a warning such as timber! Unlesss of course trees have ears..some people play music to plants to help them grow, so this could be a probability in the alternative sciences. Sorry I never heard your question. lol
2007-02-15 15:53:51 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It may even make a noise in 2 different forests
2007-02-15 11:10:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It makes no noise - that's a human term - and if no humans are present, then it can't be measured.
- unless all the bugs and other animals that live in the forest around where the tree fell call a sound wave noise.
2007-02-15 11:09:22 · answer #5 · answered by Dr Dave P 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
When you say no one are you assuming you mean humans? Animals can hear. Also as the person above says, just because nothing is around to hear it doesn't mean to say that it didn't make a noise, unless it fell silently.
2007-02-15 11:05:59 · answer #6 · answered by JJ88 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yea... duh! put a sound recorder in the forest, play it back and you will hear the noise of the tree falling. Just because noones there doesnt mean it doesnt make a noise.... i have never got that question!
2007-02-15 11:16:58 · answer #7 · answered by rock_angel3005 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
of course the only way it wouldnt make a noise was if it was in a vacuum and not in a forest
2007-02-15 11:04:23 · answer #8 · answered by crunchymonkey 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cool, i have never heard that one before, never ever ever.
the answer is yes.
what to do is hide behind another tree while one is about to fall so that it does not know you are there and i would put money on that noise will be heard.
2007-02-15 11:06:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
this question, or proverb, has been going around for a very long time,Buddhist monks Dali Lama if it make a noise when your there it makes a noise when your not there
2007-02-15 11:16:33 · answer #10 · answered by oscar 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋