Philisophical question

[Dai]

IF you fall off your bike high in the Welsh Beacons where no one can hear does the bike hitting the tarmac make a sound?

[Mick F]

Depends how windy it is. I went up there once. It was windy, and I didn't see a cyclist, let alone hear one above the roar!

Mick F. Cornwall

[whoops]

IF you fall off your bike high in the Welsh Beacons where no one can hear does the bike hitting the tarmac make a sound?

" Ouch." Perhaps!

[robbo]

But if you fall off your bike you must be there to hear it.

[reohn2]

Only if you hear it.

[ThomasDylan]

It depends on the definition of "sound". The bike hitting the tarmac will create energy in the form of sound waves. If those sound waves do not then trigger the aural sensory system of a sentient being, then I don't think it becomes a sound, merely energy that is expended in other ways.

Rather a scientific answer to a philosophical question, but best I can do

[thirdcrank]

Nothing changes.

In a time when religion played a bigger part in everyone’s lives, a conversation took place on a similar theme in an academic quadrangle about a tree: was it still there when nobody could see it?

One Ronald Arbuthnot Knox wrote

There once was a man who said, ‘God
Must think it exceedingly odd
If He finds that this tree
Continues to be
When there’s no one about in the Quad'.

Anon replied:

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.

(Even then, some people had as much time to waste sorry, philosophise, as we do on here.)

[Si]

Last time I fell off my bike high inthe Welsh hills it didn't make a sound, on account of it being embedded in a dead sheep

[ThomasDylan]

Last time I fell off my bike high inthe Welsh hills it didn't make a sound, on account of it being embedded in a dead sheep

Ewe must be joking

[Guy]

Last time I fell off my bike high inthe Welsh hills it didn't make a sound, on account of it being embedded in a dead sheep

Ewe must be joking

Please don't ram these silly jokes down our throats

[Si]

anymore puns? c'mon, don't be sheepish!

[Charlie]

Wool I never, quickly, let's get the flock out of here!

[Guy]

Wool I never, quickly, let's get the flock out of here!

Don't use language like that, you might upset the poor wee lambs.

[Charlie]

Wool I never, quickly, let's get the flock out of here!

you might upset the poor wee lambs.

Well, Clarice - have the lambs stopped screaming?

[Charlie]

Last time I fell off my bike high inthe Welsh hills it didn't make a sound, on account of it being embedded in a dead sheep

Could it have been avoided?
I suppose it was mint to be.