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bananaman114 · 2011-12-20 21:44:30

and no-one is in the area to hear it (there is no way to hear it!) does it make a sound?
Discuss.
I think that it mightn't, but it should.

my-chemical-romance · 2011-12-20 21:45:39

Of course it does, it doesn't go "Quickly, nobody's nearby, be as silent as possible!".

Wickimen · 2011-12-20 21:45:50

Argggh I don't know
I don't think it does, because it's just sound waves until it hits your eardrum

CheeseMunchy · 2011-12-20 22:01:35

What?
I was camping once and I heard 1 tree fall (with a hugh WAM) nearby,

and few minutes later I heard another.

samtwheels · 2011-12-20 22:06:21

Yes. It is human arrogance to think sounds only exist for us to hear.

JJROCKER · 2011-12-20 22:09:42

It would make a big sound tongue

bananaman114 · 2011-12-20 22:11:20

CheeseMunchy wrote:
What?
I was camping once and I heard 1 tree fall (with a hugh WAM) nearby,

and few minutes later I heard another.

But you were in a vacinity to hear it.
You have no way to prove that it makes a sound if there's no way to hear it when it falls.

CheeseMunchy · 2011-12-20 22:12:06

bananaman114 wrote:
CheeseMunchy wrote:
What?
I was camping once and I heard 1 tree fall (with a hugh WAM) nearby,

and few minutes later I heard another.
But you were in a vacinity to hear it.
You have no way to prove that it makes a sound if there's no way to hear it when it falls.

Set up cameras.

MoreGamesNow · 2011-12-20 22:12:13

There is a sound (nothing is stopping waves from traveling through the air). But if the affect on all living things is zero, does it matter? Or, to go a level deeper, if someone/something dies, and nobody will ever be effected by them in anyway, were they already dead? Is life defined by interactions?

my-chemical-romance · 2011-12-20 22:12:16

bananaman114 wrote:
CheeseMunchy wrote:
What?
I was camping once and I heard 1 tree fall (with a hugh WAM) nearby,

and few minutes later I heard another.
But you were in a vacinity to hear it.
You have no way to prove that it makes a sound if there's no way to hear it when it falls.

There's more proof that it does than there is that it doesn't.

JJROCKER · 2011-12-20 22:12:17

Well there are animals around.

CheeseMunchy · 2011-12-20 22:13:21

JJROCKER wrote:
Well there are animals around.

Ya, we can always ask them.

JJROCKER · 2011-12-20 22:14:52

CheeseMunchy wrote:
JJROCKER wrote:
Well there are animals around.
Ya, we can always ask them.

Yeah, that's what I meant.

my-chemical-romance · 2011-12-20 22:15:07

If a woman says something and no men hear her..

Is she still right?

bananaman114 · 2011-12-20 22:15:12

HYPOTHETICALLY. If a tree were to fall in a barren wasteland devoid of life, would it make a sound? Devoid of technology. There is nothing but the ground and this tree.

JJROCKER · 2011-12-20 22:20:02

bananaman114 wrote:
HYPOTHETICALLY. If a tree were to fall in a barren wasteland devoid of life, would it make a sound? Devoid of technology. There is nothing but the ground and this tree.

Well the sound waves would not travel far.

fg123 · 2011-12-20 22:55:35

Yes, it does make a sound. There's no way to prove it, but there's no way to prove it otherwise either, so we take the initial belief. It should make a sound, so it will.

Solarbuddy · 2011-12-20 23:08:29

It does...
It makes a sound, but no one can hear it, because they are too far away.

Powderbomb · 2011-12-20 23:14:00

The laws of physics are still present regardless if anyone is there to observe them.

my-chemical-romance wrote:
If a woman says something and no men hear her..

Is she still right?

If you want to go into gender equality, make a new thread.

PlutoIsHades · 2011-12-21 05:45:22

my-chemical-romance wrote:
If a woman says something and no men hear her..

Is she still right?

Sexist much?

RedRocker227 · 2011-12-21 05:47:41

my-chemical-romance wrote:
If a woman says something and no men hear her..

Is she still right?

Um...
I'd say that's pretty sexist.

SJRCS_011 · 2011-12-21 07:26:46

Until you observe it, it both does and doesn't.
Quantum theory big_smile

undefeatedgames · 2011-12-21 07:28:53

Actually, this can happen.

If there was a forest on the moon, or on a planet with no atmosphere, and a tree fell, no one would hear it. Sound does not travel in space.

Simple big_smile

TheCatAndTheBanana · 2011-12-21 08:16:20

Yes.

A sound is created with a vibration, which is how speakers work: vibrating in and out hundreds of times a minute. Ever felt a speaker as it's playing?
When the tree falls, it creates a big vibration, creating a loud sound.

Just nobody heard it.

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my-chemical-romance · 2011-12-21 10:07:09

undefeatedgames wrote:
Actually, this can happen.

If there was a forest on the moon, or on a planet with no atmosphere, and a tree fell, no one would hear it. Sound does not travel in space.

Simple

It'd still make sound, and why would a tree be somewhere without an atmosphere?

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