[quote=JBird]
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by "Animal Mother":0bc31
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by JBird
eek:
i never understood the stupid proverb of :
If a tree falls in the woods with nothing to hear it, does it still make a sound?
Of course it does. This is so ridiculous to me. If there were no living things anywhere around this tree, it would still make a sound. rolleyes:
|
But how does anybody know? |
thats not the question if anybody knows about it . if i dropped a book on the table, it would make a smack noise. if the same book fell off of a high shelf on its own, while the house was empty and no one was around , it would still make a smack noise. same principle with the tree.[/quote:0bc31]
it IS a question about knowing.... that's the whole point of the question. If no one is around, we can't KNOW it makes a noise. We can only assume because whenever we are around when the tree falls, we hear it. Perhaps the act of observing causes a change in the observed... but don't get me wrong... i do think the trees make plenty of noise when we're not around.
On a similar subject, check out this breakthrough discovery my roommate came up with (i helped him perfect it) [url:0bc31]http://filebox.vt.edu/users/kdise/Archives/trees.htm[/url:0bc31]