If a Tree Falls in a Forest...

And no one's around to hear it, does it make a sound? With so much ridiculousness happening in the federal gov't, I've been burned out and have desired to make a post on the lighter side. I tried to imagine the responses of professors in various departments of a university if they were asked the above question. I hope you enjoy:

Physics: sound is a compression wave through a medium. In a forest, the medium is air and the falling of a tree produces a longitudinal wave in the air, so yes, it does make a sound.

Psychology: Sound is as much propagation as it is perception. If there is no one around to perceive it, the sound never existed.

Engineering: Let's see if we can develop a better design for the tree to make it so it won't fall in the future under similar conditions.

Construction Management: If a tree fell in a forest with no one around, then it must be dead and rotting and we are not going to want to use that in our next construction project.

Child Development: Oh thank goodness there were no children around when it fell, we wouldn't want them to get hurt.

Sociology: To answer that, we will have to study the indigenous tribe that lives near where it fell and learn their reaction to falling trees.

Philosophy: Ahh, so the student has now become the teacher. I would have asked the same question.

Theology: God is Omnipotent, Omnipresent, and Omniscient so yes the tree did make a sound, and God heard it.

Economics: is the tree located in a capitalistic or communistic economy?

Spanish: En Espanol, por favor.

Any one else have any good suggestions?