If a tree falls in the woods and there is no living thing around to hear it fall, does it make a noise????

Answer 1

If there was no living thing around the falling tree, then it wouldn't be a forest.

Answer 2

Noise is a function of vibrations moving through the air so, yes, when a tree falls in the woods with no one (nor anything) around to hear it fall it DOES make noise. The question was a philisophical one posed by those with entirely too much time on their hands. And yes, in a controlled environment this can be tested (and proven). All one has to do is seal off an area, leave a sound activated tape recorder and wait for a tree to fall. Yawn!

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Answer 3

Some thoughts about this from me. -
'Noise' is only actualized to the brain as 'sound' when it is heard. No 'ears' to hear - no 'noise' recorded by an ear.
Maybe, what you're actually asking is - can you say a tree falls in the woods if there was no living thing to hear it or see it fall?
You might say - i can see it fell because it wasn't there last time i was there - you are relying on memory - the change you see - but you can't say it fell when there was no ears or eyes to hear or see it because you weren't there to know.
If you said yes - i know there would be a noise - you are relying on memory of what you heard once before. Recording equipment would give you an answer - but that would also mean human intervention - ears hearing by remote and human thoughts and expectations of the results.
By witnessing an occurrence in the present only (you see and hear the tree fall) can the question be answered with a yes.

Speaking 'quantumly' - it might be said that the thoughts of the watcher influences the behaviour of whatever is seen or focused on.

'Spiritually', whatever/whoever we experience around us, we have attracted to us through the 'Universal Law of Attraction'. Just another way of saying the vibration of our inner beingness/beliefs/thoughts is matched in our outer reality.

'Quantum theory' and 'Spiritual law of attraction' - same thing really!

But - no watcher of any description (no trees too - trees and everything in existence have a vibration ) - maybe no reality at all.
So- you tell me!
Whatever! Your answer is determined by what you believe - there is no absolute answer because each of us creates our own reality around us.

Answer 4

Noise is associated with 'hearing', one of the so-called five senses - the others being: touch, taste, smell and sight. But if you pause for a moment, you'll soon confirm that the 5 senses are really descriptions of the state of matter. So if 'there is no living around' to interpret the energy when the tree falls, how could it possibly 'make a noise'? To whom/what would it make a noise?

Answer 5

If a tree falls in a woodland and no person is around to hearken to it, does it make a valid? it is an previous question that has been asked in somewhat some types. apparently to count upon what one determines as being real or relatively. what's ‘sound’. At one point sound is the version in stress (the tree falling). ‘Sound’ is heard via the listening to sensory organs (in human beings especially via vibrations to the eardrums. Regardless as to if there is somebody or animal to hearken to, the falling tree will reason the vibrations in stress that could desire to be detected if a hearer replaced into modern-day. Does the vibration in stress signify sound or does it in uncomplicated terms become sound while gained? The above pertains to the presence or absence of human beings or animals. although, variations of air stress would be felt via different timber and plant existence. Does the actuality that they arrive across the version reason there to be a ‘sound’?

Answer 6

Why wouldn't it? The noise isn't produced just because some one is there to hear it; its produced by the breaking timber and the thud the tree makes hitting the ground. Doesn't matter if anyone or anything hears it or not.

Answer 7

It depends what you mean by noise. It still disturbs the air but not ear-drums so isn't heard in the mind. What we know as noise is produced by the hammer, anvil and stirrup vibrating their dance on the eardrum. If there were no eardrums and brains to interpret the disturbance of the air, it wouldn't make what we call a noise, but its vibration of the air could be considered noise.

Answer 8

Yes of course; I asked the dead trees and they confirmed it, as a very loud crashing sound of splintering wood, cracking under the fall of dead timber, while the air rattles into whispers that only the dead may hear.

Answer 9

how would you know if a tree falls if there is no living thing around it.

Answer 10

of course it does. just because you don't hear or see a thing doesn't mean it didn't happen. That's like saying the sun turns on in the east and turns off in the west, because you don't see it before it comes up or after it goes down.