2007-03-08 10:38:20 · 17 answers · asked by Joshua K 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
the tree's impact still creates the same waves of air particles/atoms (whatever it is) that the ear interprets to be sound. there is no ear inside which the sound is interpreted by the brain, it doesn't mean that those sound waves weren't created. we just can't hear it because by the time the sound waves have reached the nearest person, their intensity has diminished so much that it is inaudible to the nearest person. That's why the line "no one is around to hear it" is added in......
ok clearly i am no scientist so i don't know the exact vocabulary, but anybody who has taken a high school AP physics course should know what i mean...
2007-03-08 12:01:47 · answer #1 · answered by erockairheaven 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ABSOLUTELY NOT......The only time it would make a sound is if there is something there to hear it. If there is a frog nearby, he would hear it and the falling tree would then be making a sound. If there are no 'ears' around, then it does not make a sound. If there is a microphone nearby, and it is connected to a wire that is connected to a speaker half way around the world, then it would make a sound. The sound is defined by what or who hears it. Not the other way around.
Think if all humans and animals had no ears. Then there would be no sound - we probably wouldn't even have a word for it.
2007-03-08 12:04:21 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ok lets say we leave a tape recorder in the forest, a tree falls when were not there. Later we play back the tape would we hear the sound of a tree falling? Of course we would.
2007-03-08 10:47:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The laws of physics say yes, so...I vote for logic.
If a tree falls in the woods, and hits a mime, will it make a sound?
2007-03-08 11:05:19 · answer #4 · answered by dark_load1 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Light and Sound are the basis of everything. Just becaue a person doesn't hear it, doesn't mean the Sound doesn't exist. The Sound will always exist, as will the Light.
2007-03-08 10:57:30 · answer #5 · answered by shine_radiantstar 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, because sound is derived by motion. The movement of the ear drum is a mere result of that motion. Sound itself is energy.
2007-03-08 11:40:32 · answer #6 · answered by mr.bond 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont think so, cuz sound is only sound if its HEARD... i know thats totally wrong, but i dont care, thats my thought.
if a tree falls in the forest, do the other trees laugh at it???
2007-03-08 13:17:04 · answer #7 · answered by M T 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, if you're certain that a tree actually fell, then you can be certain it made a sound.
2007-03-08 10:44:05 · answer #8 · answered by truthyness 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It makes sound but with no-one there to hear it it cant e acknowledged.
2007-03-08 11:43:40 · answer #9 · answered by kissaled 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If a man says something and there's no woman around to hear him, is he still wrong?
2007-03-08 10:46:30 · answer #10 · answered by Amanda M 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋