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If a tree falls in the forest...

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Kwaipie

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I contend that if nobody is there to hear it, it doesn't make a sound.

Sound requires three things.

Source, medium, receiver.

Is this correct?
 
Originally posted by: Kwaipie
I contend that if nobody is there to hear it, it doesn't make a sound.

Sound requires three things.

Source, medium, receiver.

Is this correct?
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I contend that there are animals with the sense of hearing.
 
If a bear takes a dump in the forest, and no one is around to see it, does anyone really give a sh!t?
 
I farted and no one heard it, does that mean it didn't happen. No, it just means I released it slow enough so my butt cheeks didn't quiver.
 
Originally posted by: Kwaipie
I contend that if nobody is there to hear it, it doesn't make a sound.

Sound requires three things.

Source, medium, receiver.

Is this correct?
Click to expand...

If you shout and no one hears you, do you exist? OH! To answer your question, the forest hears the crash.
 
Originally posted by: Rastus
Since it is in a forest, the forest is the receiver.

Now, if a tree falls in a vacuum....
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now thats fscked up. Try picturing a tree falling in a vacuum where there is no sense of direction... One could argue that the tree is not falling, but the observer is rising or spinning.
 
Originally posted by: Rastus
Since it is in a forest, the forest is the receiver.

Now, if a tree falls in a vacuum....
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Older receivers had vacuum tubes. The internet is a series of tubes. Uh-oh. :Q
 
Originally posted by: Tiamat
Originally posted by: Rastus
Since it is in a forest, the forest is the receiver.

Now, if a tree falls in a vacuum....
Click to expand...

now thats fscked up. Try picturing a tree falling in a vacuum where there is no sense of direction... One could argue that the tree is not falling, but the observer is rising or spinning.
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umm.. a vacuum doesn't mean lack of everything.. well ok, it does, but you can still create a vacuum, say, in a room.. so if you had a sound receiver theoretically hovering in the middle of the vacuum and a tree fell in that room, then the sound receiver would receive nothing
 
Originally posted by: Tiamat
Originally posted by: Rastus
Since it is in a forest, the forest is the receiver.

Now, if a tree falls in a vacuum....
Click to expand...

now thats fscked up. Try picturing a tree falling in a vacuum where there is no sense of direction... One could argue that the tree is not falling, but the observer is rising or spinning.
Click to expand...

Why would there be no sense of direction? Just because a vacuum exists (defined as little to no matter) does not equate to the lack of gravity in said vacuum.
 
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