It won't be heard, but it's certain, not "high chance."
Actually... there is a very incredibly teeny tiny chance that, entropically, the tree suddenly dissolves into gases and thus makes no audible sound. Same as when you have two liquids and mix them, there is a very small chance that at one point, the liquids are completely separated again. Of course the chance is so small that it will probably never ever happen.
Technically the air still vibrates some no matter how far away you are from it.
That is not enough to be a sound. Something must perceive it as sound before it's a sound. While a human isn't required, if nothing, animal or machine, was around to hear it, the tree would not make a sound. Really. Google it.
That is not enough to be a sound. Something must perceive it as sound before it's a sound. While a human isn't required, if nothing, animal or machine, was around to hear it, the tree would not make a sound. Really. Google it.
Look up my comment on the first page, the fourth. Would you agree to that, that it's a question of definition?
I'm sure a tree dissolving would make a sound - not the sound of a tree falling, but a sound.
But you do see our point. If something happens to the tree so that it makes no sound, even though the chances of it happening are so tiny it is almost certain it will make a sound, and nobody is around to hear/ not hear it, there is not a 100% chance that it will make a sound. (more like 99.99999999999999999.... you get the picture.)
But you do see our point. If something happens to the tree so that it makes no sound, even though the chances of it happening are so tiny it is almost certain it will make a sound, and nobody is around to hear/ not hear it, there is not a 100% chance that it will make a sound. (more like 99.99999999999999999.... you get the picture.)
My argument at the start was:
It obviously makes a sound; it's like asking if a deaf person is alone and speaks out loud do they really make a sound?
Well, I have a physically possible piece of Earth's matter I just transported on a spaceship into space, the spaceship carries four trees, which, we can say is big enough to call a wood. Now, I put this piece of floating crust out into outer space, where, of course, it has lost it's atmosphere. Then, Using chainsaw, I cut it's bark. Then, Finally, I get into my spacesuit, push the tree, and it falls.
No sound.
It's a stupid question because the answer is obvious, and the only reason it is asked is because it serves to prove the point of some people that say there can be no utter certainty of something happening in the world without firsthand experience/recording/evidence of its existence. A lot like the stupid cat.
