If a tree falls in the woods...

[Glenn's take]

and there is nothing to hear it, does it still make sound?

 

[Glenn's take]

NO!!!!!! It makes waves that things with eardrums pick up and interpret into sound but if nothing around can do that then it doesn't make sound. Prove me wrong!!!

 

[BeaveUKGT]

The answer is simple: It depends on which definition of sound one uses.

Definition of "sound"

noun
1. the sensation produced by stimulation of the organs of hearing by vibrations transmitted through the air or other medium.

2. mechanical vibrations transmitted through an elastic medium, traveling in air at a speed of approximately 1,087 feet (331 meters) per second at sea level.



If you use the first definition, the physiological definition in which a hearing being is required, the answer is no.

If you use the second definition, the physical definition in which a hearing being is not required, the answer is yes.

 

[BeaveUKGT]

End thread.

 

[Glenn's take]

So no. If nothing is there to receive the waves than there is no sound. That's what I always thought.

 

[BeaveUKGT]

Go back and read post #3 in this thread.

Then read post #4.

END. OF. THREAD.

 

[Glenn's take]

Go back and read post #3 in this thread.

Then read post #4.

END. OF. THREAD.

Right. Hearing is required so no.

 

[CatGotMyTongue]

End thread.

 

[MGGA]

What kind of forest has zero hearing animals in it? Very human-centric take, Gle(n)n.

 

[Glenn's take]

What kind of forest has zero hearing animals in it? Very human-centric take, Gle(n)n.

Covic got them all.

 

[UKGrad83]

If a bear shitz in the woods and no one is there to smell it, does it still stink? ;-)

 

[goukcatsgo]

"If the moon was made out of cheese, would you eat it"?

 

[812scottj]

I was walking in the woods and a tree fell, but I didn’t hear it. -Steven Wright

 

[mdlUK.1]

What If I’m standing next to a deaf person? There’s a sound that I can hear but they can’t. What then?

 

[Glenn's take]

If a bear shitz in the woods and no one is there to smell it, does it still stink? ;-)

No, the bear was there to smell it. (Unless he had covid and lost their sense of smell).

"If the moon was made out of cheese, would you eat it"?

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Yes, but has nothing to do with sound.

What If I’m standing next to a deaf person? There’s a sound that I can hear but they can’t. What then?

Then it made sound because there was someone there to interpret it.

 

[Nubb16]

 

[funKYcat75]

I don’t like that. I didn’t know that about myself, but I don’t like that at all.

 

[IkeCat]

I live on 3 wooded acres and have a slate sign hanging from a tree... " If a man says something something in the middle of the woods, and there is no woman around to hear him, is he still wrong?"

 

[Xception]

A recording device will pick up the sound, so the fallen tree does still make a sound despite nobody being there. A eardrum receives sound but doesn’t create it, the recording proves the lack of an eardrum doesn’t eliminate sound.

 

[Glenn's take]

A recording device will pick up the sound, so the fallen tree does still make a sound despite nobody being there. A eardrum receives sound but doesn’t create it, the recording proves the lack of an eardrum doesn’t eliminate sound.

There are no recording devices in the middle of Siberia.

 

[Xception]

There are no recording devices in the middle of Siberia.

Learn KGB, prove me wrong.