A soundless crack?

Will the sound of a crack occur, when a tree branch is broken by the wind in a deserted forest – without the presence of a living sentient being?

A question asked from time to time and might thought as a philosophical one of the kind. Until now I have not been able to find anyone attempting an answer.

My preliminary conclusion is that no audible sound occurs without the presence of a sentient being.

Whilst the branch is breaking, certain forms of discharging emerge, e.g. sound waves spreading out in all directions.

Different kinds of signals are also sent from a transmitting station broadcasting television, but nobody sees or hears them. Practically spoken the signals are almost everywhere and more invisible than ghosts.

If you receive the signals from a TV, turned on and tuned in correctly, the weather forecast with colors and sounds shows up, for example. For the TV, the signals have a meaning, it translates them and make them come alive, so to speak.

Should a human being approach the place in which the branch cracked, while it cracked, he would, accordingly to the distance of the event, hear more or less of the cracking sound. Immediately he might think that the cracking sound was really there, on the spot of localisation. In reality it is not the sound itself, but the waves making him capable of hearing it. The sense organs converting the vibrations into audible experiences.

The sound is a “self-made” product. He does not create it intentionally, rather it arises from a place within the dwelling of consciousness and the nature of senses, awakening the sound.