April 11, 2012
NO MAN IS AN ISLAND:
We all crave it, but can you stand the silence? The longest anyone can bear Earth's quietest place is 45 minutes (TED THORNHILL 3 April 2012, Daily Mail)
They say silence is golden - but there's a room in the U.S that's so quiet it becomes unbearable after a short time.The longest that anyone has survived in the 'anechoic chamber' at Orfield Laboratories in South Minneapolis is just 45 minutes.It's 99.99 per cent sound absorbent and holds the Guinness World Record for the world's quietest place, but stay there too long and you may start hallucinating. [...]The company's founder and president, Steven Orfield, told MailOnline: 'We challenge people to sit in the chamber in the dark - one reporter stayed in there for 45 minutes.'When it's quiet, ears will adapt. The quieter the room, the more things you hear. You'll hear your heart beating, sometimes you can hear your lungs, hear your stomach gurgling loudly.'In the anechoic chamber, you become the sound.'
Posted by Orrin Judd at April 11, 2012 6:07 AM
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