If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

[stuntbrain]

I'm illegally logging, so prison time hangs in the balance.

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Lol, no problem ☺

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The certainty of your answers to this centuries old philosophical question of existence amuses me.

[Celtero]

No, it doesn't. Sound only exists when it is perceived by a living, conscious creature. Otherwise it's just a series of vibrations.

[stuntbrain]

This is my exact thought as well

[TheFunkyThumb]

If you're logging that would at least place you in the forest, so you can't really get an accurate answer

[stuntbrain]

I'm using drones to cut down those lazy trees

[TheFunkyThumb]

If the drones have microphones built in I'd say you're still out of luck. But if you edited in a funny sound effect when they fell over I'd totally accept that as fact

[stuntbrain]

Like fart noises?

[TheFunkyThumb]

Or the tuba noise. Or make a Randy Orton rko out of nowhere video from it. I'd watch it

[stuntbrain]

I'm perplexed by the options here

[stuntbrain]

I now understand the tough decision of king Solomon

[TheFunkyThumb]

I say we try a select marketing campaign. Lets make 15-20 different videos, release them in different markets and take the best 5 from those markets to go full out with and eventually select the highest rated one.

[stuntbrain]

Great idea, tree sounds and drunk GAG will be the platform that propels us to world domination

[TheFunkyThumb]

I am so down for this.

[stuntbrain]

Glad to have you aboard. Once this train starts rolling there's no stops until we reach our final destination.

[TheFunkyThumb]

What music will be our theme song?

[stuntbrain]

As Minister of Propaganda this decision is yours to make

[stuntbrain]

Something that resonates with the common people

[TheFunkyThumb]

Well now all i can think of is the version of "common people" that Shatner did

[stuntbrain]

I've just listened to it for the first time, and all I can say is that it's absolutely perfect

[stuntbrain]

I can already see the streamers and confetti filling the air during our inauguration

[TheFunkyThumb]

Holy shit. You're welcome.

[stuntbrain]

While we're on this roll, I'm just gonna stake claim as absolute ruler of GAG.

[TheFunkyThumb]

Ill be the Vader to your Palpatinr

[stuntbrain]

That reference escapes me

[stuntbrain]

Like the Goebbels to my Hitler?

[TheFunkyThumb]

Wait? You didn't catch a star wars reference? Looks like i have much to teach you.

[stuntbrain]

I got the star wars reference but only on the basis of common knowledge. I must admit here and now that I have never watched a single movie in the star wars trilogy

[stuntbrain]

I do have a lot to learn

[TheFunkyThumb]

Basically, palpatine is the absolute ruler of the empire, but Vader was the face

[stuntbrain]

Ahh sure, this sounds about right

[TheFunkyThumb]

Find amd watch Episode V and you'll understand everything you need tp

[Paris13]

Shackles around the Ankles makes a Rattling noise. xx

[Paris13]

Thanks to the asker. xxoo

[TinaSP]

I said to cut the weed man. Cut the weed!

[Deathraider]

Define what sound means? If you mean it has to be heard, then no, nobody hears it. But if you're saying if it releases out sound waves, waves propagating through the air, then yes it does.

[stuntbrain]

It seems as though you already have defined it, waves aren't sound.

[Deathraider]

I mean there's a lot of ways people use the word sound. Most people use it to describe something they hear, but physicist define it differently.

[Buckzor]

Just because nobody heard, doesn't mean there wasn't a sound. Did you hear the roaring of a thunderstorm that was across the world?

[kingofknights]

Yes! there's a storm currently over my city at the moment so by that logic, does that mean it's doesn't exist simply because your not there to heat it? no of course not.

[kingofknights]

hear*

[Desconhecida]

Your questions make me feel so not intellectually prepared for this site

[UniqueUsername132]

Sound is a wave, and the wave was still there even if it disipates before it is heard.

[stuntbrain]

Correct, but is this wave a sound if not converted by an ear?

[UniqueUsername132]

Dictionary definition:

sound wave

noun

PHYSICS
a wave of compression and rarefaction, by which sound is propagated in an elastic medium such as air.

Doesn't say anything about being heard on an ear.

[stuntbrain]

This says the wave is simply a method of propagation, not that it is a sound in itself.

[Walkerrose]

a ear*

[stuntbrain]

@Walkerrose Huh?

[Walkerrose]

@stuntbrain it's "a" ear not "an"ear

[stuntbrain]

@Walkerrose
Umm no... *a ear* is grammatically incorrect. *an ear* is the proper usage

[Walkerrose]

oh lol XD sorryXD

[stuntbrain]

*An* is used before a vowel sound such as in "ear". *A* is correct before a consonant sound.

[stuntbrain]

Lol, no problem ☺

[Alistayr]

I sincerely hope someone catches you.

[stuntbrain]

I sincerely hope you are joking

[Alistayr]

I sincerely hope you are laughing.

[stuntbrain]

I am, but I'm not sure if it's with you or at you

[Alistayr]

I don't mind either way, as long as you're making a noise that can be heard, even though I can't see you.

[valualty]

Birds and other creatures hear it 😂😂

[aialex]

If the other trees talked, you're in trouble.

[Anonymous]

Well, I'm a cop.

[Casus_Angelus]

The observer observe the observed?

[LittleSally]

Yes.