If a tree falls...

Not if it's homing site was in the tree that fell silently in the forest.

 

Mr Tyrsonwood-I have a sneaky feeling you're not taking this seriously!

I mean-whoever heard of a tree falling silently and unobserved while a pigeon tries to sleep!

 

Only the chicken knows for sure...

 

But the chicken was on the other side of the road, or footpath in this case, so we have to exclude him from this hypothesis

 

Stupid bird crosses that damned road all day long, never satisfied with the side it's on... One of these days it's gonna get hit by a car.

 

I've got dibs on the carcass!

 

Ain't much left of a chicken after a tree falls on 'em.

 

But.... did it make a sound?

 

What-the chicken,the tree,the pigeon,or the car that had to swerve to miss the chicken as it ran across the road when the tree fell?

 

The car... Did it make a sound when nobody was there to see it swerve out of the way of the chicken?

 

Well,I suppose the driver might have thought
"WTF is this huge silent tree suddenly doing lying across my bonnet?
And where did that fuckin' chicken go?"


But he'd have to be very quiet about it,or he's scare the pigeon.......

 

At a local park there are picnic tables scattered around and some of them are next to these grills on a post (so the grill is waist height for people to cook food). Several years ago a very large tree came down in a storm and landed on the grill nailing it into the ground. All you could see was the grill sitting on the grass.

I don't know if the tree made a sound when it fell but I bet the grill was surprised.

 

What kind of tree is it? I feel like that makes a big difference that we haven't even discussed yet? If it was a spruce then yes, those fuckers are always making noise.

 

Well according to the people who found it,it was a Norizonal tree....does that help?

 

you know, this totally hinges on how you define sound. it is also a matter of how you define someone to hear it, as trees are most often surrounded by other trees in what are called forests, and forests tend to be home to many life forms, most of which have perfectly functional hearing. i prefer to think of sound as the acoustical waves, weather ears are present to intercept them or not. so anything that produces them there for 'makes sound'. even if one denies that however, it is incredibly and blindly arrogant to imagine it would take hearing by a member of one's own species, and a member of one's one species only, hearing this acoustical pressure, to be able to call it a sound.

 

i just hope there wasnt a little rabbit or squirrel in the path of the fallen tree. Or perhaps that the tree was too small to inflict any harm. Although a fallen tree does create a home for small creatures to live and tread.

 

hmm, this brings in a whole new layer to the riddle. if a tree falls in the forest, but the only person around is crushed to death by it before it hits the ground, does the ground impact make a sound?

 

Ah,now we're getting to the deep stuff,'undies.

Like f'rinstance-if a universe suddenly emerges into being in a timeless dimensionless void and there's no one there to witness it....does it make a Big Bang?

 

Trees are a figment of your imagination

 

ah-but so is my imagination!