If a tree falls in the forest, and nobody is around to hear it, does it still make a noise?
oh boy bring on the jokes
this is the kind of question that should have a scientific answer . . . and i always hated science so i'm just gonna go with "YES"
Like..I understand this question is supposed to provoke deep thought, but of course it still makes a noise. Just because no one hears it doesn't mean it isn't there!
absolutely not. I'm an existentialist. its all about perception.
Wow, you've been dropping that word all over this site. I am impressed.
i'm not! existentialists are selfish!
they could be...but they could be equally selfless
wait, i just noticed this. EQUALLY selfless? so you're selfishless is equal to your selflessness. does that make it right? because something like this doesn't cancel out with an equal measure of it's opposite.
i love talking mumbo jumbo semanitcs especially when we discuss a subject that has no basis, object of reference or standard.
haha, i know...its all semantics and existential thoughts are based on absolutely nothing...its amazing people can discuss something that doesn't exist in such depth. Anyway, it's selfish from some people's perspective, but it could be selfless from other people's perspective as well. For example, I don't exist. That's fairly selfless right? Denying my own existance, because Ho Chin from china has never met me? Oh, see....existentialism is great fun!
I exist. I think. Where can I find this Ho Chi!?
turn left when you get to china, then make three more lefts
by pointing out that the word is here.. you get apoint ? is that what it is
yep, ty is on the board
annnnnd by popular request: THIS TAG - modded "redundant"
no. sound is produces by the shape of your ear canals so when a human's ear is not there to make this occurance happen, no one hears it.
sounds like existentialism to me
point for me?
yeah, that was an old post...but nobody else claimed it...so it's all yours
the chipmunks and deer prolly hear it fall tho
well, that's only half-right. it depends on your definition of "sound".
if you use this definition:
"Vibrations transmitted through an elastic solid or a liquid or gas, with frequencies in the approximate range of 20 to 20,000 hertz, capable of being detected by human organs of hearing. or Transmitted vibrations of any frequency."
then, yes, of course a sound is made.
but if you use this definition: "The sensation stimulated in the organs of hearing by such vibrations in the air or other medium. "
then, no, there's no sound because no hearing organs are stimulated.
so, in the strictest technical sense, yes, there's still a sound. but the question is really just posed to make you think.
thanks for the swell breakdown. i was THINKING that, but didn't feel like articulating, lol.
haha, exactly..the answer that that "age old" question is like so freakin obviouse - I don't know why it's so age old...the study of acoustics should of once & for all put an end to anybody ever asking this question again