Just wanted to get the opinion of everybody else here: --- If you're in a dream with God, and he sneezes, what do you say? --- If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is there to here it, does it make sound? --- Why do people ask you if you got a haircut if they know you did? Feel free to add more!
**** you. I was not there, so how can I know? In fact, how can I know that either the forest or the tree are there in the first place? Moot. Because they want you to tell them whether or not you are happy with it, on top of giving you something to tell them about if you had not mentioned it already. Because of centripetal force and other such gravity-related ideas. That was easy enough. Next... I am in an odd mood today. I wonder when it will pass, or if it will, by the time that the day is through...
Bless yourself. Yes. Sound waves are produced by the vibrations caused by the falling tree. Scientifically speaking, it does make a sound. Because they don't really care. --What is the answer to this question?
Technically incorrect, the scientific definition of sound is the Vibrations (sound waves) bouncing off of the ear drum. Basically, yes the fall would create vibrations, however if no one is around to pick up the sound waves with their ear drums, then it isn't sound. Sound is what we hear. If it's not heard by anyone then it isn't sound. It's just vibrations.
You can't win every time. I take comfort in that. Very good point. I'm surprised that I haven't heard that one before, or did not remember it if I have. We cannot verify the existence of anything specific outside of ourselves. Something like this.
So if my computer, which does not have eardrums, is there to pick up the sound with its microphone, it still didn't make a sound?
