If a woman nagged in a forest where noone was around, would she make a sound?

Answer 1

How is it that women nag, but men can go on for hours just to make a point? Ladies.. If you have ever been married or had a live-in boyfriend you all know what I mean. Just so ya know ... yes she would make a sound and the trees will listen about as much as the man she was trying to make her point to.

Answer 2

What's up with the language you use? "If a woman nagged..." Huh? Well, whatever nagged means or was supposed to mean (a typo? and btw. it's "no one" not "noone"), I'm sure you know your asking the old chestnut about whether a tree in the forest would makes any noise when it falls if no one were around to hear it.

Richard Feynman, the great physicist, genius, human being, wrote some funny books ("Surely Your're Joking Mr. Feynman" for example) and serious ones ("Five Not So Easy Pieces" for example); in one of them, he gave me an intellectual tool that solves this question. He would say the question was meaningless. He means it is a waste of time and energy to think about it (similar questions were raised by quantum mecjhanics, check The Double Slit Experiment. Forget that question. It means nothing, it gives nothing, it is not "science" becaus the answer one gives cannot be verified or falsified.

My intutiion or opionion, though, is that yes, it is not necessary for an observer to be present and see the event in order for it to follow the universal (so far as we can tell thus far) laws of physics. How could it not? Why would it not make a noise? The question is metaphysical, philosophical, and again, certainly not sceice (it is simply "belief," rather). A fruitless pursuit. Move on. Google Feynman or double slit experiment to be blown away, if that is what your're looking for.

Answer 3

Yes, because said woman is there to observe and thereby prove the existence of the sound of the nagging. The fact that nobody else is there does not mean that the old woman (let us assume she is not deaf) was unable to observe the sound. She is, after all, an observer.

Now, if it was nonverbal nagging (body language) it is a different story.

Answer 4

Yes BUT her husband would still be wrong


Oh BTW..the phrase is "no one", It's 2 words
Noone is the lead singer of The Herman's Hermits.
Peter Noone

Answer 5

no....becuse the only way sound waves can actully make a sound is if their is somthing sesitive enough to pick up the waves...and if their is nowone or nothing in the forest then no she dosent make a sound
(or to be humorus
no she dosent make a sound unless you listen to your woman nag in the forest)....no....not even a chuckle?

Answer 6

I was going to answer using what I think to be superior impressive speech to make you look stupid, and then I said, no, I can attack your grammar instead. That should make you see me as superior. Or I could name drop but Richard Feynman would say that would not make me look superior if
you didn't know who Richard Feynman was, and no one does, because no one cares who Richard Feynman is.
Now I am left to just letting it go this time and figuring that your intention was humor and not bashing nagging seahags.
I shall return to the basement and find someone else to berate.

Answer 7

Yes, the woman nagging would hear herself....

Answer 8

If a man said something stupid in a room full of women, would anyone notice?

Answer 9

how bout this. If a man says something in a forrest and there is no woman around, is he still wrong?

Answer 10

nagging emits sound waves therefore a sound was made