/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.5112276]

If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? pic unrelated.

[Anonymous No.5112288]

obviously...

[Anonymous No.5112291]

if a tree in a forest falls on a hipster, would any care?

[Anonymous No.5112298]

You tell me.

[Anonymous No.5112300]

>No. Sound is vibration, transmitted to our senses through the mechanism of the ear, and recognized as sound only at our nerve centers. The falling of the tree or any other disturbance will produce vibration of the air. If there be no ears to hear, there will be no sound.

[Anonymous No.5112309]

>>5112300
That's like saying light only exists if someone can see it

[neckbeard_the_pirate No.5112335]

A tree fell right in front of me, and I didn't hear a thing.
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[Anonymous No.5112336]

>>5112309
Not necessarily, if you make light analogous to the vibrations in the air, rather than the sound.

[Anonymous No.5112360]

>>5112309

Excuse me anon, but whats wrong with saying that in this context? The comparison makes sense. If you are going to say that sound does not occur because a human cant call it sound, then light cannot occur when a human cannot call it light

[Anonymous No.5112610]

>>5112360
We commonly refer to the external thing as light, but sound is an internal experience of pressure waves that in themselves, are just particles bumping around. A better word for the internal experience of light is view. There's no view without a viewer, just stuff that no one is looking at.

[Anonymous No.5112654]

>>5112610
>>5112300