If a tree fell in a forest and no one was around to hear it, would the tree make a sound?

Question

If a tree fell in a forest and no one was around to hear it, would the tree make a sound?

Answer 1

yes.  but i wish ppl would quit asking that question

Answer 2

Indeed it would. you see, Sound waves go on, with or without humans to hear. Asking that question, actually, makes us humans seem selfish and stuck up. believe it or not, life does go on, and things do make noise, when we cant hear them.

our ears dont really turn them into noise, they just make us hear it. its still noise, just not human heard noise.

Answer 3

yes and if you don't believe me then put a tape recorder out there on a wind stormy day and here for yourself

Answer 4

yes...  

Answer 5

Yes, it would bark.

Answer 6

depends, did Chuck Norris round house kick it?

Answer 7

The tree doesn't make sound, the snapping of the tree falling does.

Answer 8

yea it would.

Answer 9

yes

Answer 10

yeees.

Answer 11

yes it would,....

sound is a vibration...

so even is no one is around to hear it, it still does make a sound.......

here's a simple explanation......

my keyboard is making a sound right now while i am typing...

even if you cannot hear it, it does make a sound!

^_^  

Answer 12

only if it were a yew tree. you know its true

Answer 13

no it would not.  the definition of sound is in fact that someone has to hear it :)  

Answer 14

no one will ever find out, but, maybe you could trick the tree and put a camera in a tree where it can't see it, and if it doesn't make a sound, tree's are very smart

Answer 15

No it wouldn't. Our ears turn the sound waves into noise, so if there is nothing to change the waves, there is no sound