If a tree falls on a mime and no one is there to here it... will he make a sound????
552947
Probably not.  But I would be applauding like crazy.LOL!
260432
Never mind. No question is a stupid question as long as u learn from it. Here's my explanation. Where does sound come from? Sound is actually produced by vibration. As long as it has vibration, it produces sound, no matter how loud or how soft. Even molecules in a solid produces sound because it vibrates, but we can't hear the sound because it is out of our hearing range. Well, as you asked, when a tree falls, it actually vibrates, hence, sound is actuallly produced although we can't hear it. For your second question, IF, lets say you are in the woods and happen to see the tree fall, and you can hear the sound of the fall of the tree. Your question was, how on earth you heard that sound, right? Here's the explanation. When the tree falls, it vibrates. When it vibrates, energy is transfered to the air. The air molecule will then vibrate and the so-called sound wave will then be transmitted into your ears.
306845
The tree would not make noise...noise= transmitter and receiver. No receiver no noise
997346
See this all depends.... if this were in the philosophy section, then it could be debatable.  But alas- it's in the botany section, so yes- it does make a sound.  Friction is created as it falls through the air and hits the ground, and that friction causes soundwaves.  Whether someone is there or not is irrelevant.  Humans can only pick up on a certain range of decibels anyways.  That doesn't mean just because we can't hear it, it doens't make a sound.  It just means that we can't hear it.  People need to get unstuck from themselves and think outside the human box.  "If humans can't.... must not be possible."  Meh.
707707
Yes, unless of course the tree thinks "if nobody is going to hear me then I will fall quietly so as not to disturb the wildlife".
532689
yes, the tree make sound.As a living thing when knife cut your finger you shout and cry.Like wise tree is also living thing it shout and cry.But as a human being we cannot hear and feel it.If you like to know it then you want to born as tree.
868879
It depends on how many other men are in the woods with him..... Then you will have several wrong answers...lol
951746
How do you know there were sound waves in the early universe?\n\nDo you know what they say about the tree falling in the middle of the forest and there is only a man to hear the noise?
61353
NO IT DOES NOT MAKE A SOUND!\n\nto have a sound you need 3 things\n\na source to produce sound waves in a medium\n\na medium for the sound waves to pass through\n\nand a reciever to detect the sound waves\n\n\ntherefor if you have noe reciever to recieve the sound waves there is no sound.\n\nand MR Um?  i'm sorry but trees do not act as a RECIEVER for sound they in this case would act merely as an attenuation ow the sound due to reflection, scattering, and absorbtion.\n\nYOU DO NOT WANT TO ARGUE WITH AN ACOUSTIC ENGINEER WHEN IT COMES TO TALKING ABOUT SOUND!
819852
Hopefully a dead one soon!!!
283927
yes, it makes a noise, but it doesnt make a sound.  A sound is something that someone hears
365761
if a ninja does anything anywhere he doesn't make a sound\nand if he makes a sound it will probably be the last sound you will ever hear.
79096
No!Because you can not tell . how if there would be nobody nobody could near the noise!
1060275
What kind of clown would allow such sillyness? When was the last time you saw a home made out of trees? The leaves would die and rot away in weeks. I mean seriously, who would ask such a doltish question?
435287
There is thunder, you just are too far away to hear it. Now here's one for you; if a tree falls in the forest....
957848
Of course it does. If you put a tape recorder in an empty area and waited until a tree fell, you'd have a recorded sound of a tree falling. \n\nJust because your ears didn't hear it, it doesn't mean it didn't make a sound.
812100
if sum1 answers this without takin the mick ill camp out with the fairies