If a tree falls on Bush, would anyone hear it?
547868
I don't know if you'd hear it over the applause!
258650
Scientists have been dealing with the problem of natural tree falls (and the sound they make--or don't make) for quite some time and have drawn some rather surprising conclusions. \n\nIf a tree falls and there is a person around the sound is easily recognized. \n\nIf a tree falls in the forest and there is nobody nearby, the sound that it makes is very different and often not recognized as the sound of a tree falling. \n\nEither way, there is a sound.\n\nEven though plants do not show any changes to the naked (or lensed) eye, when a human is in their presence systemic biological changes have been discovered that have grave effects on plant life when a person is within 300 meters. This effect is called "human stress syndrome".\n\nApparently, when a tree is about to fall, if it senses a human nearby the biological stresses of human presence cause the cell walls in the plant to become brittle and it is the cell brittleness responsible for the familiar sound we know as that of a tree fall. The cell brittleness also has significant effects to the quality of the lumber, making it much more suitable for use in construction (see below).\n\nThrough the miracle of recording tape, we are able to provide a sound recording of an actual tree falling without human presence. \n\nCLICK HERE: http://www.getodd.com/stuf/treesound1.wa... to hear what a tree falling in the forest when there is nobody around to hear it sounds like.
891184
get riiiiiiiiiiid of your tree now i would tell u why but i dont want to scare u get riiiiiiiiiiid of it please
1125237
this question is actually answered in my biology book..here is what it says:\n\n"perceptions, such as colors, smells, sounds and tastes, are constructions of the brain and do not exist outside it. so, if a tree falls and no one is present to hear it, is there a sound? the fall certainly produces pressure waves in the air, but if sound is defined as a perception, then there is none unless sensory receptors detect the waves and an animals brain perceives them"
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Nope.  No sound.  Soundwaves, yes.  Without the diaphram of the eardrum vibrating there is no such thing as sound.  Of course woodland creatures would hear it, most of them have eardrums too. (as oppose to snakes) Sound does not exist on it's own, it does indeed need a reciever to actually be considered sound.  So, taking away all creatures with an ear as a reciever... the tree will only make soundwaves.
597161
Great philosophical question! \n\nI tend to think of it like this:\nIf a person's life is only affected by his or her actions and the actions of people and occurences that are directly relevant to that person's life then the "tree" doesn't make a sound. \nBut then we've all heard of the "Butterfly effect"; in which case the "tree" would sound like an explosion occuring next to you.......
1004921
Sound is a sense. The tree's fall causes vibrations, but, unless something is around to interpret those vibrations as sound, it is never "heard."
282828
This question has been asked forever and been the subject of debate. I think the question is worded incorrectly. If a tree falls, it makes a sound. That's a law of nature. The question is did it really fall if no-one was around to see or hear it.
796124
you will have to be in one point in the building to hear that the object will sound like a "musical scale going" down as it drops... but since objects on free fall accelerate, you would hear the 'musical scale going down" only at a very short time...\nso when you listen, listen carefully...
534618
Yap, it makes a sound although no one can hear it unless they live nearby.
842629
A Bush be humble? As if............
1126178
Of course it would. There would just be no one around to HEAR it. That doesn't mean it wouldn't make NOISE! Gah, I hate when people ask this question! (No offense!)
1142098
The blaze, it sounds scary
632971
No, but it probably feels vibrations, which is kinda like hearing.  Snakes don't have ears, but they "hear" vibrations.
1995
If a tree falls in the woods, and there is no one there to hear it, does it make a noise?\n\nIt doesn't matter.\n\nTHAT is existential reality.
866429
Good point made by "one eye".  www.dictionary.reference.com says "1. the sensation produced by stimulation of the organs of hearing by vibrations transmitted through the air or other medium." \n\nIt really does depend on your definition of sound.  Because if sound only exists as a relationship between two objects (an emitter and a receiver) then it is impossible for sound to exist without someone hearing it.  Like a phone call requires two people.  Vibrations must be heard to be classified as sound.  Otherwise they're just vibrations.  So no, according to the dictionaries it doesn't make a sound... but it would make a lot of firewood.
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No!Because you can not tell . how if there would be nobody nobody could near the noise!