Life at Mooreville

When I named my blog Route Sixty Six and then more, I should have called Route Sixty Six and then Mooreville.
Except then I couldn't write about Mexico. There's a conundrum.
There have been may conundrums up here at Mooreville - the compound formerly known as Charlevoix.
How many states in America have the death penalty are quickly solved with Google but the old chestnut of "If a tree falls in a forest and nobody hears it, did it fall at all?" has been the subject of fierce debate for a couple of days.

Phil, ever logical, says the the question should be rephrased. If you state that the tree falls at the start of the question then of course it fell.
However I wanted to delve deeper and armed with all resources of Google, I am persevering with the question.
It is all about subjectivity. The only reality we humans have is our own construct of things. So unless we see it it is not real to us. Reality is how we arrange it.
A technical answer to the question is that sound is vibration, transmitted to our senses through the mechanism of the ear and recognised as sound at our nerve centres.
The falling of the tree or any other disturbance will produce vibration of the air. If there are no ears to hear there will be no sound.
Sounds good to me.
BUT - what about if I didn't actually see, hear or perceive something happen, would I believe it?
If someone tells me that the Olympics are on right now in England but I have no access to a television or newspaper or Google, do I believe them?
Of course I do unless I have grounds to disbelieve them.
BUT then how can I trust something I cannot empirically prove?
I can't.
ARGHHH!!!!!!