If a tree falls in the forest and there is nobody around..

[Rip The Jacker]

Um... okay then...

[manker]

But it's not really about that, it's not a physics question

Awful that this had to be pointed out, rly.

[Mr JP Fugley]

so does it make a noise or what, does anybody know the right answer.

[Peerzyman]

so does it make a noise or what, does anybody know the right answer.

STFU, thumarse.

Of course it makes a noise, as if the absence of any evidence whatsoever would stop me from making a definite assertion about an event

[Yogs]

I'm with Hobbes on this.

And i live in the woods.

[Mr JP Fugley]

I'm with Hobbes on this.

thanks for that, we now have definitive proof he is talking pish.

[Mr JP Fugley]

so does it make a noise or what, does anybody know the right answer.

STFU, thumarse.

Of course it makes a noise, as if the absence of any evidence whatsoever would stop me from making a definite assertion about an event

so that's a no then.

[Chewie]

Exactly.

The damn sound is there, even if you aren't there to hear it. There is nothing to debate...

But it's not really about that, it's not a physics question, it's a famous Zen koan. It's something to think about and to meditate on.

How can you know anything that you do not directly experience.

Just realize, there is no spoon.

LOL

When I say 'a little green' I do, of course, mean that they're gullible enough to argue that this is a question worth mulling over.
There are some questions which we can certainly rely on experience to answer. This is one of them. The question makes no mention of vacuum.

A more pertinent question:
Why do people waste valuable internet time wondering if a falling tree makes no sound if there's no-one there?

[Yogs]

A more pertinent question:
Why do people waste valuable internet time wondering if a falling tree makes no sound if there's no-one there?

You must be paying too much for your connection.......

[thewizeard]

I believe you are presuming, that only humans can hear...Other creatures can too..