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If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

Short answer:

No2

Explanation

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18 comments to If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

  • If a man says something in a forest and there are no women around to hear him, is he still wrong?

  • Ken

    I thought that sound was a vibration of air regardless if anyone hears it… This is like saying that the tree doesn’t exist at all unless someone is looking at it.

  • tincase

    If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, can it be picked up on an NSA bugging device?

  • CA Kris

    If a man cuts his ears off, does he still have listen to his wife b!tc#?

  • DJ

    Does the Pope sh1t in the woods?

  • Richard

    If the Pope $hits in the woods, and there is nobody around, does it smell? And if nobody is around, does he still have to wipe?

  • Duh.

    Even if there are no humans around to register the vibrations as sound, there is bound to be another living thing to hear it. Even if for whatever reason the whole vicinity is barren of animal/insect life, the vibrations still exist and are registered in the existences of all other organic matter such as plants, and in the particles in the air through which that sound has traveled. So, duh, it makes a sound.

  • Duh.

    Now, if that tree were to fall IN SPACE… that’s another matter.

  • Tim

    Ken–the air would be moving from the tree falling, but unless there is someone/something there to hear that movement, no sound is made.

    At least I think that is the reasoning from what I remember. Sort of like communication: for communication, you need a source, a medium, and a destination.

  • tincase

    There are some things that are even beyond the understanding of WolframAlpha.

  • sonia

    Why human beings are so ego-centered and vain? Let´s try to be like the roses: they offer their perfume even if there is no one to smell it…hehehe

  • It makes sound waves even if there’s nothing around to translate it.

  • Harv

    If Helen Keller fell in the forest, would she make a sound?

  • punkassdj

    If Amy Winehouse fell in the forest you would hear the sound of everyone cheering

  • TimO

    Human-centric and egotistical answer, no different than saying the universe revolves around the Earth.

    A tree falls and the crash makes waves in the air.
    No different whether the human is there or not.
    Sound is sound is sound, get over it.

  • Joe#2

    if I smoke a tree, would you hear it?

  • zach fritz

    yes whene a thing hits the ground then the wibration will make a sound

  • the truth

    The person who wrote the quetiion is meant it as that there is no one. He is refering no one as the animals too and humans. The anwser is that no it does not make a sound. For sound to be created there has to be a source(the tree),a medium(the air) and a reciver. Take any of those parts out sound cannot be made. Think about this logically with no one to hear it how do you know that the tree even makes a sound. No one is around to observe it. Without anyone to observe it the tree will not technically exist as no one knows that it exists.

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