If a tree falls in the forest...

[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?

 

[Atheus]

Sound is a pressure wave which exists regardless of whether anyone detects it.

 

[Ronstang]

So is someone murders someone else and no one is there to see it no murder/death happened?

 

[imported_nerve]

im sure a chipmunck heard it

 

[illusion88]

no..... you are an idiot. The production of sound occurs regardless if anything is around to "hear it".

 

[ShadowOfMyself]

What a stupid logic

Originally posted by: Ronstang
So is someone murders someone else and no one is there to see it no murder/death happened?

 

[rbV5]

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?

I contend that there are animals with the sense of hearing.

 

[KLin]

If a bear takes a dump in the forest, and no one is around to see it, does anyone really give a sh!t?

 

[Rastus]

Since it is in a forest, the forest is the receiver.

Now, if a tree falls in a vacuum....

 

[Quasmo]

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.

 

[James Bond]

Originally posted by: Ronstang
So is someone murders someone else and no one is there to see it no murder/death happened?

Uhh.... does not compute.

 

[WHAMPOM]

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?

If you shout and no one hears you, do you exist? OH! To answer your question, the forest hears the crash.

 

[Tiamat]

Originally posted by: Rastus
Since it is in a forest, the forest is the receiver.

Now, if a tree falls in a vacuum....

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.

 

[Rastus]

If a man speaks in a forest and there is no woman around to hear him, is he still wrong?

 

[Inspector Jihad]

i always thought this question wasnt as profound as everyone makes it out to be.

 

[Robert Munch]

Originally posted by: Quasmo
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.

:laugh:

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

Originally posted by: KLin
If a bear takes a dump in the forest, and no one is around to see it, does anyone really give a sh!t?

For bonus points, does he wash his paws?

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: Rastus
Since it is in a forest, the forest is the receiver.

Now, if a tree falls in a vacuum....

Older receivers had vacuum tubes. The internet is a series of tubes. Uh-oh. :Q

 

[ViviTheMage]

Originally posted by: Atheus
Sound is a pressure wave which exists regardless of whether anyone detects it.

qft

 

[habib89]

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....

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.

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

 

[theprodigalrebel]

It takes off

 

[BrownTown]

you are 100% wrong

/thread

 

[NikolaeVarius]

It makes sound . Receiver doesn't matter.

Of course, until you go into wave functions

 

[Electric Amish]

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....

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.

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.

 

[TuxDave]

Originally posted by: Quasmo
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.

ROFL!