ILLMATIC Posted July 5, 2001 Share Posted July 5, 2001 Ok ive thought about these questions over and over untill i got the answer. "Is a glass half full or half empty?" answer---> Neither if its poured to the top then emptied halfway its half empty but if its filled halfway its half full. "If a tree falls and nobodies ther does it make a sound?" answer---> no, if there is no one there to perceive the sound then sound does not exist. ------------------ Living in a world where everyone is DUMB DEAF & BLIND Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smart Posted July 5, 2001 Share Posted July 5, 2001 sorry, back to the lab son, you're an idiot... sound is percieved vibration, yes, but the fact that no listening device is present does not negate the existance of the vibrations themselves... look that up in your Fuck and Wagnalls ------------------ 2 Can Sam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chizm Posted July 5, 2001 Share Posted July 5, 2001 sanks der, eh. dats sum wise shit der. yes yes yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willy_wonka Posted July 5, 2001 Share Posted July 5, 2001 i think you might be WRONG! ------------------ "there is no life I know that compares with pure imagination.." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyeBddub Posted July 5, 2001 Share Posted July 5, 2001 Originally posted by Smart: sorry, back to the lab son, you're an idiot... sound is percieved vibration, yes, but the fact that no listening device is present does not negate the existance of the vibrations themselves... look that up in your Fuck and Wagnalls actually sound isn't actually a physical thing ... its just a word for a vibration of air molecules ... so sound does NOT exist when there is no 'ear' for the vibrations to hit ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smart Posted July 5, 2001 Share Posted July 5, 2001 Originally posted by knowlej: [b}its just a word for a vibration of air molecules.[/b] again, just because the ear isn't there to percieve them doesn't negate the the existance of the molecular vibrations... that's like saying a watched pot never boils ------------------ 2 Can Sam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clip The Apex Posted July 5, 2001 Share Posted July 5, 2001 Originally posted by Smart: again, just because the ear isn't there to percieve them doesn't negate the the existance of the molecular vibrations... that's like saying a watched pot never boils yes, the vibrations do exist, but they can't be defined as sound without an ear to hear them... smarty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
destroy1 Posted July 6, 2001 Share Posted July 6, 2001 im to stupid to know what the hell you guy are talking about Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyeBddub Posted July 6, 2001 Share Posted July 6, 2001 Originally posted by Smart: again, just because the ear isn't there to percieve them doesn't negate the the existance of the molecular vibrations... that's like saying a watched pot never boils go ask a physicist they will tell you exactly what i told you ... you're wrong dude the question was "does sound exist" and no, it doesn't ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dumb hot Posted July 6, 2001 Share Posted July 6, 2001 the sound from the tree does exist. it's just nobody would konw it existed becasue nobody would have heard it. so just becasue we don't hear the sound dosnt' mean its not there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smart Posted July 6, 2001 Share Posted July 6, 2001 dude, I believe that physicists will tell you that sound does not exist in a vacuum I also know how the existance of time travel has been proven by the Uncertainty Principle ------------------ 2 Can Sam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dumb hot Posted July 6, 2001 Share Posted July 6, 2001 Originally posted by Smart: sorry, back to the lab son, you're an idiot... sound is percieved vibration, yes, but the fact that no listening device is present does not negate the existance of the vibrations themselves... look that up in your Fuck and Wagnalls word up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smart Posted July 6, 2001 Share Posted July 6, 2001 Originally posted by Clip The Apex: yes, the vibrations do exist, but they can't be defined as sound without an ear to hear them... smarty. this is the closest statement to the truth yet, but definition is subjective... for example, we refer to both sound and light waves, when on a molecular level they are all vibrations... also, the word Ear is subjective, even listening device is flawed... for example, all you have to do is measure the "sound" through a Richter Scale, thereby percieving the vibrations, and a comparison to 2 other richter stations can determine the direction, duration and speed of the vibrations, anything moving faster than mach1 can be assumed to be causing an audible report, no matter where it is, or who is there to "hear" it ------------------ 2 Can Sam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theFUME Posted July 6, 2001 Share Posted July 6, 2001 first one sounds right but i disagree wit the second one ------------------ "So analyze me surprise me but cant magmatize me" -nas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YUshook Posted July 6, 2001 Share Posted July 6, 2001 if a tree falls and your there and it makes noise..then obviously the same tree would make noise even if you werent there. for example if you don't go to school is there still school or does everyone not go? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the last slave Posted July 6, 2001 Share Posted July 6, 2001 sillyass post but nothing else to do right now so...***** This all depends on how you define sound and your perseption of it.If you say No, then that means sound doesn't exist outside the human ear and only humans can hear it(which means there was no sound made by the tree). (*&&***************************************** But then again sound by definition sound is a tansmitted vibration of any frequency.So the waves produced by the tree fallin although not heard by anyone is still sound. But there really is no true answer to this just diffrent ways of looking at it but i agree with Smart and believe YES it makes a sound. like someone once said "if we slept through our alarms did it not ring?" ------------------ fuckitwhocares Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EatMorGlue Posted July 6, 2001 Share Posted July 6, 2001 and what if you walk up to a glass of water and it's already at half capacity? what is it then? none of this pouring out, filling up crap. that's the easy way out because you're inventing circumstances. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smart Posted July 6, 2001 Share Posted July 6, 2001 hell yeah EatMo, the conditions satisfy both results, so the test is fundamentally flawed...it's kinda like, do you walk to school or bring your lunch? (but those conditions are mutually exclusive, instead of mutually inclusive) ------------------ 2 Can Sam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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