question that bugs me

[Sam Slater]

No, only vibrations caused by friction of atoms banging together.

The ear translates it into something to which the brain can make sense of; thus: sound.

Without the machinary to make sense of the vibrations, be just have friction, energy and heat (tiny amount).

A falling tree with nothing around to pick up the vibrations will mean none of the vibrations are translated into sound.

That's my take on it anyway.

[colonel]

Hmmm. A man who believes the Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum physics and not the Many Worlds Interpretation, then.

[colonel]

So what makes you think it would make a sound unless someone was there to observe the sound?

[Peter]

If a man says something, and there isn't a woman around to hear him, is he still wrong?

[Pervert]

God yeah. You'd better learn that one quickly.

[Sam Slater]

This is great Wazzmeister!

You see, as you age, the more high frequencies are less audible, making sound -the tree falling- change. Hearing the same tree fall in the exact same way, in the exact same conditions will mean it will sound different hearing it as a 5 year old, than it would hearing it as a 40 year old.

The sound vibrations are exactly the same and recording equipment would make this obvious. So, if the vibrations created are the same, but we hear a different sound, it means the conversion process has changed, and the sound is created within the hearing process, and not from the falling tree.

Falling tree = vibrations

Vibrations + ear = sound

Vibrations - ear = vibrations


Hows that?!

[Sam Slater]

The last equation should be:

sound - ear = vibrations

Duh!