but if NOTHING is there to here/feel the sound waves, the tree would not have anything to fall on, therefore making no sound: picture a spinning tree in an absolute vacume...no sound generated.Quote:
Originally Posted by starrwriter
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but if NOTHING is there to here/feel the sound waves, the tree would not have anything to fall on, therefore making no sound: picture a spinning tree in an absolute vacume...no sound generated.Quote:
Originally Posted by starrwriter
Oh my God. The Thread Monster That Refused To Die.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stanislaw
Trees can't exist in a vacuum. When they fall in the real world, they generate SOUND WAVES. Which only becomes "noise" if there are ears around to hear them.
I'm going to write a book about this. Apparently, it will have best-seller potential.
Id buy it. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by starrwriter
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Originally Posted by starrwriter
I can imagine the ending, something to do with "answerless"...
haha you will have to have all of us in your acknolegements (sp?).
i still think that, even if it makes vibrations, if there is nothing to register it like an animal or human eardrum, there is no noise.
well, noise is a perception, so if no one is there to percieve it, therefore it can't have existed, since to exist is to be defined.Quote:
Originally Posted by jakobin
We stop existing when no one sees/looks at us???Quote:
Originally Posted by Stanislaw
:D
If I rememeber correctly, there was a philosopher (could it be Feuerbach? Distant memory from school) who said that if you dont acknowledge the presence of a person, like you ignore him/her, that person doesnt exist... Or stuff like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
Oh my God again. Just call me Mary Shelley because I've created a Frankenstein monster.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stanislaw
EAR OR NO EAR, THE SOUND WAVES EXIST! THE SOUND WAVES EXIST!
*Tears out hair by the roots, runs screaming down the street*
How many times do you get hurt and stay in a realationship that lost the value that you thought use to be there?
A question that is always on my mind can someone answer why you love but never leave? sadpoet
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Originally Posted by DigitalCrash
hehe actually a tree can exsist in a vacum you just have to put it there.:D
(sorry couldnt help myself) also if the waves do hit anything they are not "sound" waves are they? just vibrartions?
Now my answerless q Is water really wet? or is it only wet when it touches air?
well, if collectivly the planet collectivly ignored us, and didn't percieve us, how could we possibly exist?Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
water is only wet when it touches the air, because the sensation of being wet is only understood when brought into a region where wet is alien, otherwise there would be no point of reference to distinguish between wet and non wet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightshade
:D tis actually alot o fun this thread is.
dunno how water is wen it touches the air...i thought water "feels" wet only wen we touchit...i mean "living beings"..i wish i was air...i would definately answered that question...Quote:
Originally Posted by Stanislaw
my Q. Has the tree "thread"..in the orignal(mother)-thread died?? :D
I think we'd exist...if we were born into the world and we cud percieve things...and even if the world "collectively" decided to ignore us...we're still there...no WAIT! this is confusing! :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by Stanislaw