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> Does time exist for systems with no events? Yes, haven't you been to any pointless meetings? :) > If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is around to hea
by kowdermeister 9y ago
> Does time exist for systems with no events?
Yes, haven't you been to any pointless meetings? :)
> If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
Obviously yes, sound is just resonating air and if physics is not broken it does make a sound.
- ThomPete 9y agoNo it doesent make a sound. That requires something to convert it into that sound otherwise its just soundwaves.
- kowdermeister 9y agoThis problem is a human made one and relies on the definition of the word, sound. Sound does not require an observer. Sound-wave is just scientific / pedantic way of saying sound. It's not just English, it means the same in my language.
- ThomPete 9y agoSound does require an observer indeed. Soundwaves even require observers and definition of them as soundwaves. Otherwise there is nothing.
- kowdermeister 9y agoWhy? If nobody is there air stops being compressed?
- ThomPete 9y agoBecause there is not interpreter to make it a sound.
- woodandsteel 9y agoLike many words in the English language, the term "sound" has more than one meaning. One meaning is waves of compression in a gas, the other is the subjective experience in someone's mind.