If a tree falls ...

[Willow Oak]

... in a forest and there is no one there to see it fall, does it really fall?



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[Karen]

Ayup! And even if no one is there to hear it, the sound still exists in wave form, and the tree still ends up on the ground!

Of course, given the nature of forests, there's likely somebody - even if it just a bug - living in the tree, so it would feel, hear and see the tree falling!

[Willow Oak]

There was a young man who said "God
Must find it exceedingly odd
To think that the tree
Should continue to be
When there's no one about in the quad."
"Dear Sir: Your astonishment's odd;
I am always about in the quad.
And that's why the tree
Will continue to be
Since observed by, Yours faithfully, God."
--anon

[aTailOf2Kitties]

how do you know it fell unless someone saw it on the ground?

[Willow Oak]

how do you know it fell unless someone saw it on the ground?

Does not knowing that it fell imply that it did not fall?

My error: Not seeing only implies not knowing.

[aTailOf2Kitties]

so, do trees fall just to get attention, since they don't seem to fall when nobody's around? LOL. A single tree in a forest of lookalikes has to do something to stand out from the crowd...like fall down. "Hey, lookit me, I'm the one fallin'!" It's arborial slapstick, I tells ya!

or it could be suicide for depressed trees, gotta go out with a bang ya know?

[happylabs]

... in a forest and there is no one there to see it fall, does it really fall?



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I don't think so. If there is no one there to prove it, how do we know someone didn't just put it there?