There comes a day in our life, when we all want to escape into the quietness of life. If you ask an elderly they would advise you to go for meditation and would for sure throw this line at you 'Meditation is how you reach the quietness inside you' but today, in this busy life we hardly have time to meditate. Hence, we need a short-cut and Orfield Laboratries in South Minneapolis gives you that.
The quietest place in the world!
There is a room in Orfield Laboratories known as the 'Anechoic chamber' which absorbs 99.99% of sound with 3.3 foot thick fiberglass acoustic wedges, double walls of insulated steel and concrete.
This room hold the Guinness World Record for the World's Quietest Place. The longest that anyone has stayed here is just 45 minutes as the quietness becomes unbearable after sometime. It is said that if a person stays here for too long, he might start to hallucinate.
The company’s founder and president, Steven Orfield says, ‘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.’
The chamber was basically created for testing and research purpose and is used by manufacturers, to test the loudness of their product and check their sound quality.
To know more about the Anechoic chamber, check out this video:
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