2007-02-28 19:57:18 · 19 answers · asked by Makaveli daRule 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Yes it does. That's why any affected wild animals run away from the sound.
2007-02-28 20:00:15 · answer #1 · answered by gone 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would put out sound waves, but they would only register as "sound" if they were picked up by someone's (or some animal's) ears.
Chances are probably very high that there's an animal near enough to hear it. Even if the animal is rather far away, many animals have hearing so sensitive that they can hear for miles.
So, chances are quite good that the falling tree's sound waves are being picked up by a pair of ears out there, and being converted into sound.
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2007-02-28 20:04:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Is the person hearing the tree fall the one that creates the sound waves that makes him hear the tree hit the ground? or, if no-one is there do the sound waves still exist when the tree hits the ground?
2007-02-28 20:35:01 · answer #3 · answered by DixeVil 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the previous answerer potential Schroedinger not Schroeder, that's a undeniable place in philosophy that an journey needs a witness to confirm of it having occurred. i.e. there is not something actual previous the info of our 5 senses. That place is named Logical Positivism. you're able to call it the tyranny of the empirical. This all began with (Bishop) George Berkeley(1685-1753). Berkeley became between the three maximum oftentimes happening eighteenth century British Empiricists (the others have been John Locke and David Hume). he's great conventional for his motto, esse is percipi, to be is to be perceived and his espousal of 'subjective idealism'- between the international's oddest suggestions- that issues might have not any existence in any respect exterior our understanding, an theory irritatingly perplexing to refute. whilst Dr Johnson famously denied Berkeley by potential of kicking a stone and asserting 'Sir, I refute it subsequently!', the thought is smartly summed up in 2 limericks by potential of the theologian Ronald Knox: there became a youthful guy who mentioned: 'God could discover it rather atypical If it style of feels that this tree in basic terms ceases to be whilst no-one's approximately interior the Quad' "Sir, your astonishment's atypical: i'm consistently approximately interior the Quad. and that's why the tree Will proceed to be, in view that mentioned by potential of, Yours Faithfully, God".
2016-10-17 00:11:24 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If there is nobody around hoe do you know the tree fell? Maybe it just layed down.
2007-02-28 20:52:34 · answer #5 · answered by U-98 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
well.. It does..
Even if no one or animal is around to hear it.. Sound waves are produced and they travel far..
Sounds are 'heard' only when the waves are picked up by a hearing device (eg. ears or even the scales of snakes)
2007-02-28 21:52:15 · answer #6 · answered by The Immortal Phoenix 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
this question is trite; has nothing to do with mythology. try reading philosophy and about quantum theory. Qualia. In philosophical terms, qualia are properties of sensory experiences.
it is unfortunate that bored people looking for something to ask inevitably repeat this tired question. this makes 1,299 times asked on this site. http://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_result;_ylt=AhmArJWSjunvpelIkDaWZCsnzKIX?p=if+a+tree+falls&scope=&mc=&fltr=_en&tab=0&asktime=&st=1
2007-02-28 23:17:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely.
2007-02-28 23:35:21 · answer #8 · answered by William M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
If nobody's around the tree thinks: why even bother to make any sound at all?
2007-02-28 20:04:53 · answer #9 · answered by The Orange Whisperer 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
How would asking people give you the right answer??? Try asking a tree ! Blessed Be
2007-02-28 21:18:47 · answer #10 · answered by Bunge 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋