If a tree falls...

Well.. at a quantum level, things get pretty crazy

 

If an entire forest falls to the ground, does that mean I get free firewood?

 

Only if you own the land

 

Dammit!

 

Has anyone ever tried just setting a recorder out in the woods? What if you performed that experiment and NEVER heard a tree fall? That would be weird.

 

So,if no-one actually knows what a falling tree sounds like,how will we know when we DO hear one fall?

 

easy, it sounds like chicken.

 

It will be the last thing you hear if you aren't far enough away.

 

Right. So,taking the sum of the last two posts [^]

I'm strolling through the woods thinking happy thoughts,when suddenly I hear what seems a familar sound and think "Oh-here comes a chicken".

Two seconds later my head is sticking out of the ground,there's a tree on top of me,I'm spitting out leaves and bark,and thinking "DAMN,the chickens are heavy in these parts!"

 

See? There ya go.

 

Well,yebbut - if a chicken lands in a tree and the tree doesn't fall over.....does the tree exist?

 

The tree exists, but the chicken turns into a pigeon.





:willy_nilly:

 

^^^So lemme get this right...
...now if the tree falls we have the sound of a chicken and a pigeon?

 

Depends on where the chicken is at the time... In the tree or on the ground.


You do not want to hear the sound if the chicken is flying... You will have to be shot to put you out of your misery.

 

A better question is how can the tree fall if its not being observed.

 

BETTER question? Harrumph!


Ok,so if the pigeon,the chicken and the tree don't ask any questions-is anyone looking?

 

The pigeon would see it. Unless it flew away already.

 

AH,GOTCHA!

See,you don't KNOW the pigeon saw it,as you weren't there!
So if the pigeon DID see the chicken bring down a tree silently-he'll keep it secret!

 

Unless it's a carrier pigeon...

 

Hang on Tyr-wouldn't the carrier pigeon have a message written by the chicken saying "The tree just went CRASH! as it fell over",tied to it's leg?