If a tree falls in the woods when nobody is around, does it make a sound?

Question

If a tree falls in the woods when nobody is around, does it make a sound?

Answer 1

You'd have to have a monstrous ego to think it didn't.

Answer 2

YES OF COURSE IT MAKES A SOUND!! JUST THE ANIMALS THERE TO HEAR IT !!

Answer 3

YES!  

Answer 4

yes

Answer 5

no and all the trees would all disappear because no-one would be there to see them, people blame logging for the destruction of the rainforest's but it really because no-ones there to see them.

Answer 6

Depends on what it fell on to. Trees don't make much noise as they fall, it is more the noise when it lands. Also they would still make the noise either way. If a radio goes on and no one is there to hear it the music would still play. Sound exists even if you are deaf and can't hear it.

Answer 7

Of course it makes a sound. Would it just not make a sound because no one can hear?

Answer 8

Why would it not? Like, if there's no witnesses, it changes its mind?

Answer 9

Take a freakin' philosophy class.

Did you really think this was brilliant?

Stop smoking that stuff!

Answer 10

Yes. It usually presses its little Life-Alert beeper and says, "I've fallen, and I can't get up!"

Answer 11

I DONT KNOW!!!!

GODDDDD I hate those confusing questions.

And love them at the same time.

Maybe someone should leave a video camera in the woods someday, tape a tree falling, come back later, get the video camera, watch the tape and see if there was a sound.

Oh dis.

Answer 12

yes you just don't hear it cuz you're not there

Answer 13

Sound is sound.  It is there whether we hear it or not.  Images are images, they are there whether we see them or not.  Sensations are sensations, they are there whether we feel them or not, etc.etc.

Answer 14

if no one was around would the world still turn, would the rain still come, would life still go on? If no ones around, would a bird still chirp, would a singer still sing, would the thunder still clap?i think a tree would still  make a sound even if it fell by itself cause the earth is still there to hear it.

Answer 15

of course it makes a sound its just that nobody is around so they cant possibly be able to hear it

Answer 16

are u the same guy that asked about the coconut feel and no one was around would it make a noise?

GET A LIFE

Answer 17

Technically it would. If you set up a sound recorder in the woods, then you will hear it after it falls. That's what I've always thought of doing.  

Answer 18

No, in order for it to be a "sound" there has to be a receiver.

Answer 19

lol lol typical question!! i luv it!!! hmmm... well, i'm not sure. i mean how the fudge am i supposed to know when i  am not around to see. :) and if nobady is supposed to b there then wat do u expect from us??