If a tree falls in a forest but nobody is there to hear it does it make a noise?

Answer 1

A sound, but maybe not a noise. Sound does not depend on people hearing it to exist, but only a person hearing it and not liking it can make it a noise.

Now, if a man is talking in the forest and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?

Answer 2

Yes, because I have been in a forest where a tree fell, and it made a lot of noise.

Answer 3

Things hear and feel it all right, they're just not necessarily human.

Forests are full of life. But I want to know why the tree fell. Some poor hypothetical tree fell just so you could ask your question. Mighta squished a squirrel for Gods Sake!

Answer 4

Yes it does, its not necessary for some one to hear a tree fall for the tree to make a noise, it makes the same sound it would if 1000,000 people were there when it falls.

Answer 5

I don't think so, because when a tree fell in a forest without anybody present, no one heard it. So, it shouldn't make any noise.

Answer 6

if no one was there, how does anyone know that the tree fell. Perhaps if someone came along and found a tree laying on the ground, he may reasonably assume that the "fall" was gradual do to poor roots and there was no thud due to sufficient cushioning (branches, leaves).

let me ask a question: if a man is running for president and most people in the country do NOT vote for him, is he president?

Answer 7

Motion creates sound with or without our permission. Likewise when two masses impact one another, a sound is created then also. The sound created is part of the science of motion , only difference, no one is there to listen, except for maybe nature.

Answer 8

you must be thinking of a mono culture forest ,for the production of ethanol
that is devoid of life,
Normal Forrest's are full of life
everybody hears it
but maybe they are not humans
but squirrels,badgers birds,snakes ,foxes etc
all know what goes on around them.

Answer 9

NO
The mind, as far as it can, endeavours to conceive those things, which increase or help the power of activity in the body.

Proof.--So long as the human body is affected in a mode, which involves the nature of any external body, the human mind will regard that external body as present , and consequently , so long as the human mind regards an external body as present, that is , conceives it, the human body is affected in a mode, which involves the nature of the said external body; thus so long as the mind conceives things, which increase or help the power of activity in our body, the body is affected in modes which increase or help its power of activity ; consequently the mind's power of thinking is for that period increased or helped. Thus the mind, as far as it can, endeavours to imagine such things.

Answer 10

I read this in psychology.
... except it was phrased, does it make a 'sound,' not 'noise'

but anyway,
the answer in my textbook was no, because sound only exists in your brain. sound is the interpretation of the sound waves that travel through the air... but those are just the waves- the vibrations. vibrations alone cannot be "sound," or "noise." only when it gets into your ear, eardrum, goes in the auditory nerve or whatever, and into your brain does it THEN get interpreted as a "sound."

so ... if it doesn't get to the ear, then it makes vibrations, it makes the sound waves, but not the sound itself.