Explain.
2007-03-14 02:12:42 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Yes, it made the last sound heard by the person whose head was crushed!
2007-03-14 02:20:46 · answer #1 · answered by lisa 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
You would have to postulate that the tree had mechanisms to: a) indentify the number of humans within hearing distance, b) adjust its falling trajectory to target the head of a single human and c) engage a silencing system before it begins to fall on that very trajectory. Humans do not even have these mechanisms. Call me anthropocentric, but I don't think that trees are a more advanced organism than humans.
2007-03-14 09:22:23 · answer #2 · answered by sevenletters4me 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, just because no-one heard the sound doesn't mean it did not occur.
Interestingly, in the rain forest you are much more likely to get killed by a falling dead tree called a dead-fall, than by any other means (i.e. spider bite, battered by a gorilla or the like.)
2007-03-14 10:22:13 · answer #3 · answered by Doctor Q 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep; sound isn't defined by what we hear, but by the sound waves, or ripples, it creates in the air. Even if we aren't their to hear, the air will still ripple as if someone would hear it anyway.
2007-03-14 09:56:37 · answer #4 · answered by Kit-Cat 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, especially if it is the head of my ex.
2007-03-14 09:20:45 · answer #5 · answered by cutie_cutie_74 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Sound can break window-glasses. It is very much real.
2007-03-14 09:19:47 · answer #6 · answered by Ankit 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yep,in the split second before the dudes head became 'pulp'
2007-03-14 09:24:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, even if the nobody heard it, it still made a sound.
2007-03-14 09:17:52 · answer #8 · answered by u 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋