He could couple that with a video recording of the tree and be.

Feb 12, AM.

If sound is vibrations, then the falling tree certainly does make a sound, because it produces vibrations in the air. Even if there’s no person or other animal around to hear the sound, a recorder with a microphone could certainly record those vibrations- as sound.

This question is a popular philosophical question that scholars have been asking since the ’s. I would like to add a second thought; does it make noise? Wikipedia even has a page dedicated to the topic. So does it? When a tree falls in the woods does it make a sound? Does it make a noise?

The answer is quite simple if answering on a physical level: Yes and No! Yes, it makes a sound, that being a disturbance in the fluidic medium, air. When the tree falls Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins. Dec 09, The question is: If a tree falls in the forest, and nobody is around, does it make a sound?

This question was originally posed, though not in these words, in It was part of a book proposing that a thing would cease to exist if it was not being perceived at any given moment. It talked of a tree in a garden. Oct 22, In fact, sound is different frequencies of vibrations, but unless someone is in the forest to hear it, those vibrations cannot be converted into sound. Sound is our brain’s unique ability to recognize different frequencies and interpret them. So if a tree falls in a forest and there is no one to perceive the vibrations made by the fall, there would be no sound.

When the tree falls in the forest, sound waves are generated that impinge on your eardrum if you are there. The sound waves are processed by your cochleas and neuronal signals are transmitted to. In English, there is no word for the sound a tree makes when falling. A good author will make do with some evocative onomatopoeia like"crash","bang","thud","roar", etc. or else something more creative,"the tree fell with a sound like a train crash." – Andrew Dec 10 '17 at As the tree falls, it doesn’t make a sound.

An observer will be able to report any tree-falling sounds by detecting vibrations with equipment or his ears only if the observer is present at the time of the fall, and as stated in the question, the observer exists but is not present.

What it does make, is a number of vibrations. which travel for quite a distance before dispersing. However, if someone was in ‘ear’ shot of those vibrations, those vibrations would play off our inner ear workings and send messages up to our brains in the form of a noise. May 14, But back to the question, “If a tree falls in the forest and there is no one there to hear it, does it make a sound?” Berkeley would have answered “Yes, of course, Yes!” The idea of there being no one to hear the tree fall was preposterous.

This was because Berkeley believed that God was.