Sounds emitted by plants under stress are airborne and informative

Re:Sounds emitted by plants under stress are airborne and in... by galaxyLogic on Sunday April 02, 2023 @02:39AM (#35407807)

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_a_tree_falls_in_a_forest#:~....

"... majority view of the quantum mechanics community then and arguably to this day is that existence in the absence of an observer is at best a conjecture"

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Re:Sounds emitted by plants under stress are airborne and in... by philipov on Sunday April 02, 2023 @10:21AM (#35410760)

"Observer" is the most unfortunate word physicists could have chosen, though. It gets people all confused about observation mistakenly having something to do with thinking or perception. "Interacter" would have been a more accurate term, but it doesn't sound as sexy.

To wit, yes, the tree makes a sound because the tree is there to hear it.

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Re:Sounds emitted by plants under stress are airborne and in... by galaxyLogic on Sunday April 02, 2023 @04:49PM (#35415050)

Well yes IF it is true that trees can hear, which is what these new experiments give some credence to but don't prove conclusively

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Re:Sounds emitted by plants under stress are airborne and in... by blueridge on Sunday April 02, 2023 @10:48AM (#35411040)

If a tree falls in the forest, all the other trees are there to hear it.

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