Imagine walking into a room that absorbs all sounds and electromagnetic waves from within. An endless silence prevails. Sounds pretty good, right? So how can these rooms be so quiet?
Silence is something we each need at times. Getting away from people and everything around us for a while makes us feel pretty good.
In that case Let’s take a look at the quietest room in the world!
Anechoic or silent rooms completely absorb sound and electromagnetic waves.
In other words, the reflection of both sound and electromagnetic waves is prevented in these rooms. Also, here It is also isolated from all kinds of external noise. The record for being the quietest room in the world belongs to the Orfied laboratory in Minneapolis, USA.
The average sound level of this room, which managed to enter the Guinness Book of Records, It was measured as -9 decibels. In fact, the average sound intensity of a room defined as quiet is 30 decibels. The human ear can easily hear sounds between 0-140 decibels.
Sound intensities outside this range cannot be perceived by our ears.
This means that a room that we describe as essentially silent but has a sound level of 30 decibels, It shows that it’s not that quiet after all.
On the other hand, the basic principle behind making a room quiet to such high degrees is is the absorption of all sounds in the room by the room itself.
For this, all anechoic or silent rooms floor, ceiling and walls with triangular pyramid-like geometric structures that create a rough surface These triangular structures absorb the sound waves falling on them by reflecting them within themselves.
At the same time, these rooms are completely devoid of any possible noise or echo, tests of hearing aids It is also used to make .
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