Does a tree make a sound when it falls and there is nothing to listen to it?
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Of course it does. If you put a tape recorder in an empty area and waited until a tree fell, you'd have a recorded sound of a tree falling. \n\nJust because your ears didn't hear it, it doesn't mean it didn't make a sound.
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If everyone in the world was deaf, and the tree fell, it would still make a sound, but we just can't hear. \n\nA dog can hear things humans can't, but it doesn't mean those sounds don't exist.
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Actually, no it doesn't. The sound you hear is actually vibrations in your ear that your brain converts to noise. So if there are no living creatures with ears and brains around to 'hear' it, it does not make a noise...just some air vibrations going all over the place.
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There make very low frequency sounds that we cannot hear. They also make sounds that we do hear and it is because they what other animals to hear it.
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Walls may have ears, but trees don't have mouths. So no.
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well actually sound is a series of vibrations and rarefractions, so when it is passed through the air the vibration is passing through the air molecules, and depending on the thickness or thinness of the air,the sound will go a further distance, also note that how loud the sound is must be taken into account. sound is not simply "absorbed" into the air, it is just the amount of strength the rarefraction and vibration is, now when there is wind, you have to take into account that sound is like an object, it will have wind resistance, or in a way. newtons second law i believe states, every force excerted onto another will  excert force equally or more back upon that object. so it is bassically just sound dying out because the vibration has no longer the power to be carried through the air.
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The answer to this depends on if you are a physicist or a biologist! A physicist would say "yes" because to him/her sound is vibration of air molecules which will occur when a tree falls. \n\nA biologist, however would say "no" because sound is a perception in the brains of living things capable of perceiving it. The perception is a brain's interpretation of the nerve signals sent to it as a result of vibrations causing the eardrum to vibrate, then the ossicles in the middle ear, then the fluid in the cochlea, then the hair cells etc. There is no sound until a brain perceives it, only vibrating air.\n\nEven if the vibrations are recorded, there is still no sound until the recording is played and heard/interpreted by a capable brain.
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According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary sound is defined as, "1 a : a particular auditory impression : TONE b : the sensation perceived by the sense of hearing c : mechanical radiant energy that is transmitted by longitudinal pressure waves in a material medium (as air) and is the objective cause of hearing." According to this definition the sound MUST be perceived, therefore, if no one is around, the tree DOES NOT make a sound.
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Is that I typo because I thought the question is usually phrased "If a tree falls in a forest and there is no one around, will it make a noise?"  (or something like that) That question is asking if sound can exist without anyone being there to hear it.\n\nYour questin however answers itself.  If there is no one around then it will not be heard.
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Already answered this one, he crawls out on a leaf and waits for fall. Unless he has springs on his feet so he can bounce to the next tree and molest a monkey. Guess what sound a monkey really hates to hear...
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If a tree falls in the forest when nobody is there, . . . does it make any noise? This is a complicated question, that seems simple. It makes a sound, which may or not be noise. Noise is sound that is unorganized, it requiers the presence of someone to make that determination. The same thing holds true for you, when you have somthing to say. In order to get someone to listen to you, someone has to be there listening. While you can't make anybody take the time to listen, there are things that will better your efforts at being heard. When a comic gets up to tell jokes, not everyone laughs. At times everybody laughs, and then there is the joke that dosen't get any response at all. You can take a few lessons from the comic. No, not about telling jokes, but rather about delivery. He has managed to speak to a wide audience. When you speak to large groups, your words will find some willing ears.\nMatt.
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Put it on yourself! If you fall and there is no one see's you, does make a sound? Then how do we know?
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None, sound is a wave not a particle. Sound is just a wave of vibrations travelling through atoms.
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Wow, what a silly question.\n\nIt will make a sound, only nobody was able to hear it becasue nobody was there.\n\nBlablablablabla two points for me! yay!
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it does make sound!!!!........ how stupid iz that \nWt a question >>>>> so weird !!!
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if it lands on you and you scream, and nobody can hear it, are you really screaming? hell yeah you are. and that tree made a pretty loud bang too.
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Yes it makes noise but No there is no way to prove that it does...can we move on now PLEASE?