This is what the quietest room in the world looks like (Mictosoft)
Silence is golden?
No, if you find yourself in the quietest room in the world - in which no one can survive for more than an hour.
In 2015, Microsoft built what is now in the Guinness Book of World Records and officially the quietest place on Earth.
What is known as an "al-echo chamber" (without an echo) or anechoic chamber - located at the company's headquarters in Redmond, Washington, performed "sensitivity tests" in 2015 and displayed an average background noise reading of minus 20.35 dBA (relative decibel unit - pressure level measuring tool the voice).
But it turns out that silence is slime.
Only very few people managed to survive in this room for a long period of time - at most an hour.
After a few minutes, you will start to hear your heartbeat.
A few minutes later, you can hear your bones creaking and the blood flowing through your body.
The point of the anechoic chamber is not that you won't hear anything, but that it will remove all other external noises and allow you to hear the endless voices of your body.
Only in death, in fact, is the body completely still.
This is what the quietest room in the world looks like (Photo: MICROSOFT)
You won't be able to survive in it for more than an hour (Photo: MICROSOFT)
Environments that we think of as exceptionally quiet are usually louder than the human hearing threshold, which is around 0 decibels.
Noise in the library, for example, may reach around 40 decibels.
With no sound from the outside world coming in, the absolute silence will gradually turn into an unbearable ringing in the ears.
This will likely cause you to lose your balance due to the lack of reverberation in the room, which will impair your spatial awareness.
"When you turn your head, you can even hear that movement. You can hear yourself breathing and it sounds pretty loud," Hondaraj Gopal, the cell's lead designer at Microsoft, previously said.
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It took two years to design the space: it consists of six layers of concrete and steel, it is slightly detached from the surrounding buildings.
An array of shock-absorbing springs is located below it.
Inside, fiberglass wedges are installed on the floor, ceiling and walls to break up the sound waves before they have a chance to travel back into the room.
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At the same time, another anechoic room hopes to win the title of the quietest room in the world.
The room, located at Orfield Laboratories in Minneapolis, achieved a "legitimate measurement" of minus 24.9 dBA, according to Stephen J. Orfield, who designed the space.
Orfield told The New York Times that he has applied for his room to get his title back (which he previously held) - and is currently awaiting a response from the Guinness World Records management team.
A Guinness representative confirmed receipt of Orfil's referral and added that the Guinness World Records team is in the "process of evaluating his evidence and their review criteria."
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