The Quietest Room on Earth
with Sven Aaltonen, anechoic chamber engineer
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Sven builds rooms that swallow 99.99% of sound. We spend twenty minutes inside one, then ask him what silence actually does to a person.
“After ten minutes you hear your own blood. After twenty, you hear your joints.”
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