Impossible riddle?!?!?!


Question: if a tree falls in the forest and nooone is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

in your own words please


Answers: if a tree falls in the forest and nooone is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

in your own words please

No, it doesn't.

According to the scientific definition, in order for something to be a sound it must have a sender, a medium, and a receiver.

The tree falling in the forest sends vibrations into the air; so there is a sender.

The air picks up the vibrations, so it serves as a medium - which creates a potential for sound.

But if nobody is around to hear it, there is no receiver - nobody to interpret the vibrations and chemically change them into sound.

So since there is no receiver, the tree really doesn't make a sound =]

Haha, yes, I'm a science nerd planning on majoring in biology in college. I learned about sound in eighth grade.

it does make a sound but no 1 hears it. =D

Of course, unless sounds is a figment of the human imagination.

Just because nobody hears it it doesn't mean it didn't make a sound. I just said "HI" and nobody but myself heard. That doesn't mean I didn't make a sound. The tree could fall and hear itself make a sound but just because nobody else heard, doesn't mean it didn't make a sound.

yes
if a tree falls and someone is around to hear it, it makes a noise so why should it be any different if the tree is all alone??

Yes it does
its like
if you leave your telly on on full blast and then go out of the house ... does that make a sound..
Yes it would unleess your speakers bust

I would say yes. Just because there is no one to hear it doesn't mean it didn't make one. Did anyone around today see when Earth first came to be? Did anyone around today see with their own eyes Jesus rise? Just because no one can recall it happening doesn't mean it didn't. A lot of people believe that Jesus rose and none of them have seen him or ever saw that event in history.

Of course!!

yes

Im sure the birds in the tree would have heard it.

of course it makes noise even though no one can hear it because that would defy the laws of physics if it didn't.

A tree makes a sound without falling.

Yes, It still makes a sound even though noone heard it. If you were not on Yahoo Answers and I didn't know you would you still exist? Of course.

Tree falling anywhere but in a vacuum would make noise.

well its not a sound till it hits ur ears so i guess not it does make the noise but no one can hear it...

It makes an unheard noise.....

Classic question! :)

Really, what is sound? Sound is actually vibrations. So if a tree fell, would it make vibrations? Absolutely.

But, some people would argue sound is vibrations transfers into our ears and goes to our brain. Which is true. And the argument would be if no one was around, there would be no transfer to hear it.

But realistically, if we put a tape recorder in the woods, drove 30 miles away, then a tree fell, and drove back and got the tape recorder would there be anything on it? Yes, there would: the sound of the tree falling.

Whats you take on it?

i would think so unless sound its made by ur brain, which its not. plus maybe some squirrels heard it.

Of course it does

your asking something no can awnser and hope to get it right. but i have to say there is a sound



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