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These Scientists Set out to Build a Silent Room, But Discovered Something Way More Terrifying
Despite the popularity brought by the “challenge,” the Orfield chamber still plays an important role in research. It has been ...
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Could I Survive the ‘Quietest Place on Earth’?
In 2004, Guinness World Records certified the anechoic chamber at Orfield Laboratories as the quietest place on Earth, with an ambient sound level of –9.4 decibels A-weighted. (“A-weighting ...
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In the Earth’s Quietest Room, You Can Hear Yourself Blink
But even such a reasonable idea can go too far. The quietest place on Earth, an anechoic chamber at Orfield Laboratories in Minnesota, is so eerily noiseless that visitors have used it to see how ...
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Iceland scientists want to drill a hole straight into a reservoir of molten magma about a mile underground. It could generate limitless energy.
Because it's so close to a volcano, any small tremors triggered by the scientists poking into the chamber are unlikely to make an impact, Jon Gluyas, a professor of Earth sciences at Durham ...