If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

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  • Answering the age old philosophical question, if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?
    Check out the video we did over on Alie's channel!
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  • @upandatom
    @upandatom  6 років тому +89

    I just watched Alie's video and it's so much better than mine and I'm super jealous ua-cam.com/video/lf1wPcF-fXw/v-deo.html

    • @hasibhasnat681
      @hasibhasnat681 6 років тому +6

      Up and Atom doesn't matter we'll love you more.

    • @Zoutsteen
      @Zoutsteen 6 років тому

      I noticed that as well. Scriptwriting into a story as Alie does takes a bit of practice. Or at least observing it once and learn it forever. Each their own style though.
      And btw, I noticed one single air molecule here that had a slightly higher energy value, that might never result in any audible value but, still transferred enough energy from that fallen tree. Just luck that I noticed though.

    • @Robert-rt9ho
      @Robert-rt9ho 6 років тому +2

      I love you videos no matter what ☺️☺️

    • @IIIIIawesIIIII
      @IIIIIawesIIIII 6 років тому +4

      But your voice is much more comfortable to listen to

    • @electromorphous9567
      @electromorphous9567 6 років тому

      I've been thinking bout this questions since a kid but this is the first time someone else talked bout it.

  • @Roboterize
    @Roboterize 6 років тому +206

    I also get nervous when i feel observed.

  • @ARTiculations
    @ARTiculations 6 років тому +135

    Omg I'm on the flooring dying 😂 every time I hear that tree falling scream. This collab is so awesome!!!!

    • @upandatom
      @upandatom  6 років тому +6

      hahaha aww betty glad you appreciate!!

    • @punya1621
      @punya1621 5 років тому

      Y'all know each other? That's great. I've subscribed to all 3 of you. Didn't know you were friends!

  • @phs125
    @phs125 6 років тому +240

    Electron must be shy.
    It has to obey the stupid rules of quantum society.
    When no one's watching, he does whatever he wants.

    • @phs125
      @phs125 6 років тому +4

      Justin O'Brien ba dum tss

    • @phs125
      @phs125 6 років тому +2

      Justin O'Brien I'm seeing a lot of 42 lately.
      The page I'm reading is 42
      I look at my watch and it's 1:42:42 ( really WOW)
      I got a reply in UA-cam and it's from 42.
      WTF?

    • @phs125
      @phs125 6 років тому

      Justin O'Brien that's evident.

    • @ChallengeTheNarrative
      @ChallengeTheNarrative 5 років тому

      😀

    • @mikhailfirsov8410
      @mikhailfirsov8410 5 років тому

      p Hs, as I know, there are not any stupid rules of quantum socity, but there is one rule that says that the Universe is non-contradictaryable. It means that if the observer looks at the result, where the electron went, then the picture woud be no interference pattern. But if the experiment with the information was taking place and the information was written, but then totaly destroyed as so as no observer can find the result anymore, on the picture would be an interference pattern. If you are confuced for that stupid trying to say my thoughts than I can find some materials about that, whose would be able to say it clear. wof.

  • @xacharon
    @xacharon 6 років тому +114

    Well, now I'm all freaked out at what things are doing when I'm not looking at them! *Looks suspiciously at pet fish*

  • @azdgariarada
    @azdgariarada 6 років тому +36

    Thank you for teaching me that trees make anthropomorphic screaming sounds when they fall down. This channel is very educational.

  • @DrawCuriosity
    @DrawCuriosity 6 років тому +59

    I've loved both sides of the collab so much!! I really want to make that falling tree sound effect to be made into a ringtone... That way if someone rings and I don't hear it, then I guess no one rang me 😈

    • @neurotransmissions
      @neurotransmissions 6 років тому +7

      Draw Curiosity Lol, that would be awesome!!

    • @robertbutcher222
      @robertbutcher222 5 років тому +5

      But how would you know if it didn’t ring, since it may only not ring when nobody’s around? 🙂

    • @erikblaas5826
      @erikblaas5826 2 роки тому

      about that ringtone, I wanted a ringtone of the "sounds of deep space", so when someone calls me I can say, "it's a long distance call".....

  • @francescosorce5189
    @francescosorce5189 5 років тому +10

    circa 6:10
    Well you had to mesure them in some way, we see through electro-magnetic waves for example, so the very thing used to dectect the particles IS the thing that determined the state, while before it was the screen.
    what I'm saying is that the result changed not because we knowing where the particle went changed it (the electrons couldn't care less about who was looking at them), but because in order to mesure in the first place we had to do something to the electrons and THAT is what changed the thing.
    It's like waking someone to see if they're sleeping or just have they're eyes closed... if you wake them they are definitely awake XD

    • @Kokurorokuko
      @Kokurorokuko 3 роки тому

      Well, yes, but a detector only receives waves, right? Or do you mean the fact that the detector was there and it could reflect some waves which could interfere with electrons is enough?

  • @therealEmpyre
    @therealEmpyre 6 років тому +36

    Even if you define sound in such a way that it is not a sound unless it is heard (which I don't), there are always animals around to hear a falling tree, even if it is just insects.
    Also, in the Shrodenger's cat experiment, the cat itself is an observer, so it will not be in a superposition of alive and dead. It could even be said that the Geiger counter that is set to release the poison gas is an observer, detecting whether radioactive decay has happened.

    • @jonispatented
      @jonispatented 5 років тому +4

      therealEmpyre which is why the schrodinger’s cat thought experiment is not actually claimed to be a true fact. It’s simply a tool to help the layman understand the basic idea of a superposition. Also the tree question is just phrased poorly. You are meant to assume that there are no hearing animals around at all.

    • @KaiHenningsen
      @KaiHenningsen 5 років тому +10

      @@jonispatented I'll argue that first, the tree falling and creating sound waves is a macrocosmic event. As such, it is pretty much impossible for it to not be observed - for example, the sound waves will move leaves.
      Second, I'll argue that if we say "does a tree falling make a sound", then we are talking about something that happens _at the tree,_ and I'll claim that therefore the answer _must_ be "yes". If you want to talk about something happening in your brain, the verb to use isn't "make", it's "hear". The tree _makes_ a sound, which you then _hear._ (So my answer might not be applicable in every human language.)

    • @jonispatented
      @jonispatented 5 років тому +1

      Kai Henningsen I agree with your answer. That’s also my answer. It’s just not the correction I was making.

    • @Hi_Brien
      @Hi_Brien 5 років тому +1

      Not if humans drive em all to extinction AMIRIGHT?

    • @timjohnson979
      @timjohnson979 4 роки тому +6

      @@KaiHenningsen I agree. The observer doesn't even have to be a living thing. Any device that records sound would detect the sound waves from the falling tree. My view of neural science sort of agrees with Ernest Rutherford. "All science is either physics, or it's stamp collecting."

  • @nubbmarr1774
    @nubbmarr1774 5 років тому +2

    Ive heard it and read it several different ways, but this is the very first explaination of the double slit experiment that I think pretty much anyone could understand. Very good job

  • @douglasbernal3005
    @douglasbernal3005 5 років тому +3

    Thanks for all the help with these concepts. It's been big. You are perfect!

  • @d9e240
    @d9e240 4 роки тому +4

    Ladies! This is the greatest video on the topic. Thank you for covering all the options and explaining it so well and comical.

  • @Imilmano
    @Imilmano 6 років тому +44

    1:00 When did this turn into a Vsauce video.

    • @JorgetePanete
      @JorgetePanete 5 років тому

      you forgot the question mark

    • @canyadigit6274
      @canyadigit6274 5 років тому

      Jorge C. M., you forgot the capital.

    • @croissaux
      @croissaux 5 років тому

      XD

    • @Hi_Brien
      @Hi_Brien 5 років тому

      @@canyadigit6274 Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't you forget the capital yourself? Or do you view the auto generated text for @ing people as a valid start of a sentence?

    • @Mr_Yod
      @Mr_Yod 3 роки тому

      It never did.
      Or did it?

  • @Mistfingers
    @Mistfingers 6 років тому +14

    The double slit experiment is fascinating... And I particularly love the Quantum Eraser as an extension of it; that just blows my mind. I'd be fascinated to see a video about that! :-)

    • @theunknown1426
      @theunknown1426 2 роки тому

      Bore was INCORRECT...... (just a ban waggon everyone has jumped on from that time until now).mostly likely the other quantum theory of that time "the pilot wave theory" was probably heading towards the right direction.........
      ua-cam.com/video/WIyTZDHuarQ/v-deo.html

  • @empire-classfirenationbatt2691
    @empire-classfirenationbatt2691 6 років тому +5

    Lol the edits and animations are golden😂😂😂
    Good, quality educational video right here. Well done! I took Science as a subject in high school (Physical and Chemical) and allll these videos may be helpful for that :D

  • @oneibus
    @oneibus 5 років тому +7

    Your channel is so awesome!!! My 8 year-old son have watched them all and he has a notebook full of diagrams he made from them. You explain things in such a great way, keeping it fun and interesting! Kudos! More, more, more!!! :)

  • @wens6395
    @wens6395 5 років тому +8

    Popular "science" tends to compare apple with orange, and tries to reach some sort of "conclusions"…but fails to remind people that it starts with a analogy.

  • @ck1416
    @ck1416 5 років тому +1

    Came to know regarding this experiment when I chance upon an episode of Dr Quantum many years back, it was such a great episode that no one is able to top it.
    But today, I chance upon your video and found it to be better explained and more informative. Bravo to you! Keep up the good job

  • @Alec0124
    @Alec0124 2 роки тому

    3:15 - "We're essentially all living in our own virtual reality"
    yessss I try to remember this whenever I am communicating with people :)

  • @TheHatter42
    @TheHatter42 6 років тому +5

    If I put the definition of sound aside, the new question that comes to my mind would be: is there an observation if no one is there?
    In detail that would mean, does the air or the forest floor count as an Observer, since both of them are having an interaction with a falling tree?

  • @gianfrancofronzi8368
    @gianfrancofronzi8368 Рік тому +2

    Sounds are energy, and even when nobody is there to hear it , the energy is still happening.

  • @lordmuntague
    @lordmuntague 5 років тому +5

    "If you shoot a mime in the forest does he make a sound?"
    Steven Wright

  • @jannickharambe8550
    @jannickharambe8550 2 роки тому

    I love your videos. I love them so much!!
    Also, could you make a video about what information is in physics? What is it, where does it come from?

  • @KuraSourTakanHour
    @KuraSourTakanHour 5 років тому +1

    It makes sense in a way that measurement changes the result, if you consider that for particles to be measured they must be interacted with in some way; the detector is emitting or receiving something connected to the particles that physically alters their trajectory/behaviour

  • @akashshful
    @akashshful 6 років тому +6

    It was a great video.
    I already knew about the double slit experiment, that's what got me curious about quantum mechanics in the first place. But the way you presented it with the context of trees was really appreciable. I have to tell you I never gave sound this much thought, as I did after watching this video. You literally changed my own reality.
    I just have a question for you.
    Can you tell me the exact method by which the detector detected the electrons in the experiment ? I mean they have to interfere with the electrons in some way to force them to collapse into a single state.

  • @danielsieker9927
    @danielsieker9927 3 роки тому +3

    My interpretation to this problem is: If no one is there to see, hear or observe in any other way, does the tree fall at all? If yes, you can also assume it makes a sound (as long as sound is not defined as a sensation or brain function). If no, then, well... something that does not happen can not cause something.

  • @LycanKnight2011
    @LycanKnight2011 5 років тому +5

    Great job as usual :)
    It begs the question. If a politician speaks and no one is there to hear them. Is it still a lie :)?

  • @JTheoryScience
    @JTheoryScience 5 років тому +1

    The answer is YES. just for those that dont really understand how 'the measurement problem' works, it doesnt require observation from someone, just interaction, which can come from the other particles that its bonded to as a macroscopic, non-quantum state or even comes from its own non-local self interactions such as with the double slit experiment. this is the same type of thought experiment as the Shrodingers cat thought experiment. If fact, given the true quantum nature of reality its possible that it both makes and does not make a sound simultaniously, and that would be the case for a quantum scaled version of how sound works.
    also sound is more of a pressure distribution so it kinda needs lots of particle interactions to actually be a thing, much like temperature does. So i really think this tree falling in the woods thing is kinda just a rehashed and annoying version of the already misinterpreted, but slightly less annoying Shrodinger cat experiment.
    thanks for reading, please correct all my errors, UA-cam community!

  • @peterp-a-n4743
    @peterp-a-n4743 Рік тому

    I love how upset and angry the falling tree sounds and looks.

  • @merwynraphelcheruvathur624
    @merwynraphelcheruvathur624 4 роки тому

    A very simplified explanation of a complex theory.....amazing .!!! Keep it up!!

  • @PortCharmers
    @PortCharmers 5 років тому +1

    As an ecologist I may add that a forest is a complex ecosystem consisting of plants, fungi, bacteria and lots of animals, many of which have complex neurosystems including the ability to perceive sound. So if there is truly no one there to hear it, it's hardly a forest.

  • @michael2974
    @michael2974 2 роки тому +1

    Yes, it does make a sound. Sound is defined in physics as you said. 1.41 - your guest is ignoring the accepted scientific definition to give a subjective definition based on various perceptions. She is also ignoring that these are shared perceptions that require a common definition. Inserting personal definitions over recognized definitions defeats the purpose of communication and leads to confusion.

  • @sonosofisms
    @sonosofisms 5 років тому

    Best Upandatom so far - great stuff.

  • @ddhhffkk
    @ddhhffkk 3 роки тому +2

    If there was once a tree observed to be standing in a forest and the next time it is observed it's laying on the ground.... Did it ever really fall?

  • @stevekerp1
    @stevekerp1 2 роки тому

    Shrodinger's cat comes to mind. This is one of those "paradoxical" questions where the answer can be changed by changing the definitions of the words used in the question. We don't really learn much about sound or anything else when we get to the answer. Ten minutes of fog. "Because if you define ...." at about the 2-minute mark.

  • @CMBlessing81
    @CMBlessing81 2 роки тому +1

    Show me a forest with no creatures capable of hearing, and I might believe the argument that the interpretation of the movement of air molecules is necessary. Then the argument would shift to whether the awareness of the other trees was adequate to count. You know, mycelium networks and all that.

  • @tannisbhee7444
    @tannisbhee7444 6 років тому

    Nice video. Thanks for bringing up the bit about what observation is. Met a few people who infer some sort of causal consciousness to the act of observation.

  • @MaxDiscere
    @MaxDiscere 6 років тому +14

    Your animations are lit. Especially from Niels Bohr

    • @upandatom
      @upandatom  6 років тому +4

      thank you :)

    • @TusharJain007
      @TusharJain007 6 років тому +2

      Agreed, sweet animations! How is it that you do your animations?

  • @cyrlav7748
    @cyrlav7748 5 років тому +4

    Hey, usually I love your videos but I am confused this time.
    I have always learned that one must be very cautious about not using quantum physics to make a point about consciousness.
    Schrodinger's cat thought experiment doesn't mean that any cat in a box is both dead and alive as long as no one is observing it. The cat is both dead and alive if, and only if, its state is determinated by that of a quantum particle (Schrodinger used the example of a poison activated by an electron when this electron is reaching a certain position if i remember well).
    So it would be relevant for your tree if it was cut by a robot with a chainsaw activated by a quantum particle for example, but quantum physics doesn't answer the philosophical question of whether or not the sound exists if it is not heard.
    Or maybe there is a point i have missed - i am not a physicist but have seen a certain amount of videos made by other physicists really warning about that biais, so...

  • @heisag
    @heisag 4 роки тому +1

    It do make a sound. The vibration (sound) of air would be "felt" by the nearby trees (it is in a forest after all) , as would the ground vibrating from the impact. So it should even comply with the quantum definition given at 7:40.
    No, i am not saying that trees can hear, but the soundwaves both in air and ground would be absorbed by nearby leaves, bark, needles and roots, enough for the nearby trees to count as observers, at least pr definition.

  • @fishercat503
    @fishercat503 5 років тому +1

    High on a mountain in the Alps beyond everyone's hearing, a ponderous tree succumbs to gravity. The tearing of lignin fibers and the subsequent crash of wood on rock and snow creates sound waves that strike a nearby overhanging cornice which falls. This starts an avalanche which flows down to the village below killing all inhabitants. What killed those people quantum electrons or classical sonic energy?

  • @gbear1005
    @gbear1005 5 років тому +2

    Based on evidence yes. I have seen a soundless video where a tree fell and the sound disturbed hundreds of birds. They heard a sound, I did not hear or interpret it. The birds were, in effect, a detector but one I didn't actively monitor

  • @chuckgaydos5387
    @chuckgaydos5387 Рік тому

    I don't even know whether a tree fell or just decided to quietly lie down unless I'm there to observe what happens.

  • @deandeann1541
    @deandeann1541 5 років тому +1

    If anything is there that measures the sound ie if anything at all is affected by the soundwave, it is there. Like with the opera singer, to see if she hit the famous hi note, look for the broken glass afterwards.
    So now lets assume a scientist shows up with a perfect infrared detector soon after the tree fell. Everything around the fallen tree that absorbed some of the sound should be radiating a slight amount of extra heat. In essence, anything affected by the sound when it occurs serves to measure the sound wave, and can theoretically show the sound was real, until consequences of the sound are utterly lost to the background noise.

  • @xoiyoub
    @xoiyoub 2 роки тому

    This doodles are the best and your explanations are clear as water

  • @luisgonzalezsalamanca47
    @luisgonzalezsalamanca47 5 років тому

    The wave function doesn't collapse if we don't hear the tree falling, so the tree makes and doesn't make a sound at the same time in a superposition state until silence comes back

  • @esa062
    @esa062 5 років тому +1

    It's not a philosophical or physical question. It is a linguistical question. What does the word mean? Often words are poorly defined and the meaning has to be deducted. But in this case there will always be something to hear the sound, not necessarily human, so it does regardless of whether sound is understood as air pressure variation or sensory perception.

  • @MrWorld-hc5rs
    @MrWorld-hc5rs 5 років тому

    Lol. Your animations are always awesome.

  • @GreatOutdoors1
    @GreatOutdoors1 5 років тому +1

    I would sum it up this way, there is the sound and there is the perception of sound. The light emitted from a star exists, we can then perceive it. Seems a little ridiculous to try and say light doesn't exist if it occurs outside our ability to detect it. It is still em radiation either way.

  • @TheAzynder
    @TheAzynder 3 роки тому +1

    22 seconds and done, I like it short and concise. ^^

  • @eddiepaterson1583
    @eddiepaterson1583 2 роки тому

    My version of the sound interpretation is that a "sound" as defined to human language is that there must be an emitter a medium and a receiver. So you cannot have 2 out of 3 or it doesn't fit the definition. If a person screams in space, does a sound occur or do we 'fill in' what we believe 'should' have happened. In the forest, only 2 ingredients of the definition are available. Only those creatures with 'ears', or the equivalent, will 'hear'. If there are none, then the waves (or vibrations) will start and eventually dissipate. No one will ever know. Like a triangle, with only 2 legs it is just an angle and will never contain 'area'. It needs all 3 to get its 'name' - triangle or in our case, 3 components for 'sound'.

  • @denischarette7972
    @denischarette7972 3 роки тому

    Sound is a wave of compressed air or solid matter that propagates longitudinally. The sound is detected as noise if an animal is in its path and has the apparatus or organ like eardrum and brain to detect it.

  • @Evan.13239
    @Evan.13239 5 років тому +1

    Wouldn't the surrounding forest act as a system observing the sound waves created by the falling tree? The system may not be sentient, but it still has forces acted upon it and changes caused by those forces.

  • @LasseJ789
    @LasseJ789 3 роки тому

    "observation" means interaction. It's not some camera just "Looking" at a particle. The detector interferes with the particlewave, and thus makes it collapse.

  • @jekabskarklins
    @jekabskarklins 5 років тому

    From Wikipedia. In physics, sound is a vibration that typically propagates as an audible wave of pressure, through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid

  • @LeRouxBel
    @LeRouxBel 6 років тому +1

    I can never make my mind up about these questions. I mean, it does produce sound, which exists but isn't perceived, rendering that sound pointless.
    I like the mix of neuro-science in this one ! Also, I picked up Algorithms For Decision Making you recommended, it was a great read.

    • @upandatom
      @upandatom  6 років тому

      so glad you enjoyed it!

  • @EliasMheart
    @EliasMheart 2 роки тому

    The fact that (in the double slit experiment) "This doesn't seem to make sense" got interpreted as "The particle somehow cares about whether it is measured or not" instead of "If I derive information from the particle, I am not 'just measuring' it, but actively interfering, therefore I should expect its behaviour to change" is still wild to me. (I had this pointed out to me, I didn't even notice the problem on my own..)
    For the particle to "care" about observation, the observation would have to actually interact with the particle.
    If you postulate that somehow "gaining information" about the particle changes the behaviour, why don't you take the simpler explanation that the measuring apparatus is interfering with the way it would behave without it. If you don't attach "little mind entities" to the particles, this is the obvious conclusion.
    ( I notice I need to revisit my understanding of the theory, because my certainty of correct representation has fallen below 90% here..)
    If you are interested in more, the many worlds interpretation actually does make more sense than the whole idea of quantum collapse. If you have trouble following along, I recommend suspending your concept of "this world has to be the only world" for a while, see if that helps, and afterwards re-examine that concept. If anyone reads this, I may be sufficiently motivated to look for the link for it, but there is a great intuitive explanation out there. hmu

  • @lotharerkens8154
    @lotharerkens8154 5 років тому +2

    Its a forest, so by definition there are lots of observers. You take the other trees away, you no longer have a forest.

  • @christopherlordmacatuno842
    @christopherlordmacatuno842 3 роки тому

    I prefer to think it like this. If there's an axe that can axe trees, do the trees can be axed if that axe doesn't there? The answer is no because the definition of axe is bind with its use "to axe". The trees may exist but the action of being chopped only makes sense if there's the tool defining it.

  • @bornofashes
    @bornofashes 4 роки тому

    My takeaway was that I should consider that it doesn't "make a sound" because it makes a sound, doesn't make a sound, colorfully launches to space...etc. all until it is observed.

  • @varunnair7095
    @varunnair7095 3 роки тому

    The beginning killed me XD, loved the content of the video too!!!

  • @Martyk1968
    @Martyk1968 9 днів тому

    Wifi, TV, radio & phone signals are everywhere, but if you do not have a receiver to pick up those frequencies would you say that they do not exist?, when they obviously do.
    Sound is a frequency, so just because there are no "ears" to hear it does not mean that the sound never existed, it obviously did.

  • @Noneblue39
    @Noneblue39 6 років тому +1

    the classic biologist vs physicist on sound . love it lol

  • @lowhanlindsey
    @lowhanlindsey 5 років тому +1

    Another fantastic video! Going to check out Alie's right now

  • @lunchmind
    @lunchmind 4 роки тому +1

    I get that we all eprcieve it differently depending on our situations et al but the air wave is still there the tree still makes a sound but the apparatus that receives the air wave modulates the sound ,no?Sort of like an FM signal being braodcast from a local radio station. it makes a sound regardless of whether or not any tuner is turned on to to hear it

  • @mhmdsalhab8254
    @mhmdsalhab8254 4 роки тому

    The sound, in definition, is a vibration propagating across a medium, having a convenient frequency and loudness

  • @lexmtaylor
    @lexmtaylor 5 років тому +2

    Isn’t the question simpler. If the tree falls it makes the sound wave. It’s not small like an electron. The sound wave doesn’t work on a quantum level.

  • @foxlake02
    @foxlake02 3 роки тому +1

    There are other animals besides our species that are capable of hearing. A forest, by definition, is an ecosystem that includes animals.

  • @chrisose
    @chrisose 3 роки тому +1

    This question is an example of how easy it is for philosophy to depart the realm of reality.

  • @bodrogo2585
    @bodrogo2585 5 років тому

    To consider a wave sound there's got to exist a sound detector that analizes it. In this case it is called a mechanical wave.

  • @frenstcht
    @frenstcht 4 роки тому

    I was alone in a forest when a tree fell. It groaned like a monster -- that sort of bowel-evacuating sound straight from your worst nightmares -- and then it cracked, like a monster had stepped on a huge log and snapped it like a twig. There was a crash like trees being swept aside by the monster that is about to eat you, and through the trees I saw the top of the tree land with majestic violence.
    It took me a couple minutes to talk my lizard brain out of the complete panic it was in. It was a very strange feeling.

  • @jimcurt99
    @jimcurt99 5 років тому

    Wonderful video!!! some really interesting stuff in there....

  • @ericchin739
    @ericchin739 Рік тому

    It's a matter of semantics.
    If you define sound as something a creature hears, then no, it doesn't make a sound.
    But, if you define sound as longitudinal pressure waves, then yes, they absolutely make a sound.

  • @shelceygusek427
    @shelceygusek427 3 роки тому +1

    One of these things is not like other...
    2 of the 3 definitions of sound given are subjective.
    1 is objective.

  • @NetAndyCz
    @NetAndyCz 5 років тому

    I dislike how people say that the electrons "were observed" in the double slit experiment as if it was passive process and the electrons were not bombarded by high energy photons in order to see their location. Most observations in quantum physics are very active processes so it makes perfect sense the things are changed and behave differently

  • @Wombatmetal
    @Wombatmetal 6 років тому +1

    I literally could not make it to the end of this video, the logic was so specious. If a tree falls it makes a sound, which is an audible pressure wave that can be transmitted through solid, liquid, or air. Whether you are there or not the pressure wave exists, and all the chipmunks and squirrels will hear it and be startled.
    If a tree falls in the forest there is always someone there to observe it, otherwise it's not a forest. If you want to talk about the psychology and physiology of how one hears that's something else, but if a tree falls that pressure wave is created in an audible range.
    And if you doubt this, do a video on why there is sound in space where there are no air molecules to dance around, because there is.

  • @naeemsayes3480
    @naeemsayes3480 6 років тому +1

    I love this!

  • @matthijndijkstra25
    @matthijndijkstra25 6 років тому +1

    The intro put a smile on my face. ☺️

  • @sammyfromsydney
    @sammyfromsydney 5 років тому

    There are other ways of observing than hearing. So yes if it falls, that implies we have detected it falling somehow (otherwise how can we say it has fallen). If we haven't made a detection in any way we can only find out by observing the tree or something the tree has affected.

  • @mrmurpleqwerty4838
    @mrmurpleqwerty4838 3 роки тому +1

    0:07
    Help, I've fallen and I can't get up.

  • @Valkyrinator
    @Valkyrinator 4 роки тому +58

    of course the bigger question is: "If a man speaks in the forest and there is no woman to hear him, is he still wrong?"

    • @brandbird
      @brandbird 3 роки тому +4

      Nope, it's "if a woman speaks in a forest and there is no man to hear her, is she still told to be quiet?".

    • @nowayshay
      @nowayshay Рік тому

      If there aren't any women around, he'll find peace and sanity

  • @stephenscalibrationsandbox9194
    @stephenscalibrationsandbox9194 6 років тому +1

    wonderful as usual! I could listen to an explanation to 1,000 explanations of the "double slit experiment" and love each and understand none. In this I follow Feynman. I will mosey over to the near science resource and thanks for the tip. BTW whats with the purple wrist band an your right hands? Or is it your left hands and thing just get switched because your back in Oz?

    • @upandatom
      @upandatom  6 років тому

      thank you so much Stephen! I was just at vidcon, a youtube conference and they gave us purple wristbands!

    • @stephenscalibrationsandbox9194
      @stephenscalibrationsandbox9194 6 років тому

      and yes, the acting was amazing!

  • @judgeomega
    @judgeomega 5 років тому +2

    my interpretation is that objects which arent interacting with the rest of the universe dont actually exist in the same way as things which do. so for the photons; they exist when they are created, and then pop back into reality when they are absorbed on the screen. the probability wave is just the resolution (as in completion) of it re entering reality.
    i would love a test that closes the left slit after it passes through (but before it reaches the screen). if im correct the result should be a single line on the right as if it just passed through the open right slit. easily falsifiable, yet can potentially add a tremendous amount to our understanding.

  • @dkazmer2
    @dkazmer2 5 років тому +1

    First question answered directly: Yes, it does make a sound. Sound has nothing to do with who/what hears it. And the question is an outdated analog for the Copenhagen interpretation at best.
    Second question: Humans can be _maximally_ objective, via awareness and enlightenment.

  • @michrain5872
    @michrain5872 5 років тому +10

    "-And the winner is number 3, in a quantum finish!"
    "-Not fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it!"

  • @karkius
    @karkius 3 роки тому +1

    If you can claim that we can't know if the tree makes a sound, then you can equally truthfully claim that we do not know if the tree fell or that it even exists. The whole question is moot.

  • @briancherry8088
    @briancherry8088 3 роки тому

    Heres my guess about the double-slit experiment... the act of observing causes interference. Like the Heisenberg principal. Observing it changed it because observing is not entirely passive. the measurement device absorbs some energy and reflect some back at the object being observed. Just a thought. thanks!

  • @johnytwo
    @johnytwo 5 років тому +1

    Hello, could you do a video with more information about what „the observer“ means? It is kind of mysterious and philosophical. Or not?

  • @andyhill242
    @andyhill242 3 роки тому

    I'm with Allie and Bohr, I think it only makes a sound if an ear or recording advice is there to "hear" it!

  • @JTH43
    @JTH43 6 місяців тому

    I’ve thought this for years and most people think I’m crazy for some reason. Sound is clearly subjective. It’s a human perception. Sure there are pressure waves, something happening independently but the very concept of sound requires an ear and brain to create it

  • @cliffordhodge1449
    @cliffordhodge1449 Рік тому

    For some people the analysis is a bit different, not touching on quantum physics analogies. The claim is that the tree does not make a sound unless there is an ear and brain on which the compression waves impinge. The fact that compression waves are a causal factor in producing in the brain the experience of sound, it does not follow that compression waves are the same thing as sound, a mental event. One might also ask if a pin prick in a thumb frozen with anesthetic is still painful, whether an empty house with nothing but a rotten egg in it has a foul smell, or whether the grooves and notches of a vinyl record sitting on a shelf are actually compression waves. They can help produce compression waves, but are not compression waves; the air in the house holds molecules of the rotten egg, but is not the rotten egg; and the pin prick causes damage to the skin, which could hurt, but does not. To compare with a different kind of wave, ask whether radio waves in a forest with no radio receiver still make music. If you think they do, try to provide an answer as to which radio station, which piece of music, or whatever is being played there. Each analogy involves contrasting two distinguishable things, and if you think about it, we may sometimes gloss over the distinction in casual conversation, but for technical or precise purposes, we are actually very much committed to the idea that the two things are distinct and not identical.

  • @kennyalbano1922
    @kennyalbano1922 4 роки тому

    Down fell the tree, up went its roots, all because of the strange witches charm, the top became the bottom and the bottom became the top. Some claim, no poem nuetral, no word barryon. That is why when the tree fell I charged ahead and lept on. - Kenny Albano

  • @pratikdedhia
    @pratikdedhia 6 років тому +2

    Ha-ha nice ending, the ' bye' was kind of sudden.

  • @GaryBickford
    @GaryBickford 3 роки тому

    Another effect worth exploring - when our ear and toe are pricked simultaneously with a pin, we feel them simultaneously. However the signal traveling through our nervous system takes about 1/2 second to get from the toe to the brain. This example shows that our brain is always running about 1/2 second behind reality and putting it all together to pretend we are up to date.

  • @mrmurpleqwerty4838
    @mrmurpleqwerty4838 3 роки тому

    In mc, when a tree falls in a forest, and no one is around to hear it, it does * not * make a sound.
    You can now test with skulk sensors.

  • @oximas
    @oximas 4 роки тому

    in 7:40 does this mean if I look at the particles hard enough
    or let's say with some very precise camera without actually
    without touching or interacting with them in any other way
    does the wave function will still collapse.

  • @thewickedjester7495
    @thewickedjester7495 5 років тому +2

    Electrons: The original trolls

  • @xk1390
    @xk1390 5 років тому

    The animations are so cute! :)

  • @JediSawyer
    @JediSawyer 4 роки тому

    Great video really tied a couple of concepts together for me, Question if the which way detector is left plugged in but its data is not recorded in any way so maybe it is inconsequential whether it is there or not does it still cause the electrons to act like particles?
    There is another video about possible interpretations of the double slit experiment that I just watched that explains several interpretations, including the many worlds theory, called 'Does Consciousness Create Reality? Double Slit Experiment may show the Answer.'

  • @lucidmoses
    @lucidmoses 6 років тому +7

    I bet Niels Bohr is going to go down in history as a goof that sidetracked physics. If it wasn't for him people would have been working on other theories that actually help explain things (like pilot wave or whatever) instead of stopping advancements with he's "It's Magic that we can't investigate" ideas.