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[TheWeirdYT (someguy)]

Ofc the tree makes a sound, its just that noone hears the sound, duh.

[InjectuousPotato (Incandescent)]

A sound is defined by the people who hear it. What your talking about is a sound wave. So technically, it doesn’t make a sound.

[FAdadadada]

@Wikipedia

"If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? " is a philosophical thought experiment that raises questions regarding observation and perception.

Here are some Metaphysical Questions this poses:

@Wikipedia

Can something exist without being perceived by consciousness? – e.g. "is sound only sound if a person hears it? "

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Can we assume the unobserved world functions the same as the observed world? – e.g., "does observation affect outcome? "

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What is the difference between what something is, and how it appears? – e.g., "sound is the variation of pressure that propagates through matter as a wave "

Here is the Wikipedia article on it.

[FAdadadada]

Can you know the true nature of something if you can only perceive it by observation?

What if everything in the universe does not exist until observed?

How do you disprove the claim that everything in the universe began yesterday, and that all your memories have just implanted in you yesterday?

[TheWeirdYT (someguy)]

Yeah but what if an animal or bug or something hears it, or what if sound isnt defined by the people who hear it but im too lazy to check it?

[TheGreatPapyrus (Crew Papyrus)]

Allow me to answer this in the most Alphys type of way:
It does produce sound but because no one is nearby to perceive the sound wave created by the tree, we can simply say it didn’t make a sound. And, yes, it does produce sound because it collides with more air molecules, making the sound wave we hear. Yes, we may not have been nearby to hear it, it DID create an audible sound, just no one was around to hear it.