I've been in the one at BYU. It's pretty cool. Your brain is used to hearing

Feb 5, 2023
7:37:26am

LeftOfNormal Truly Addicted User

any sound reverberate off walls, etc. It's odd to ONLY hear sound coming directly from its source toward you and nothing else. If somebody is facing away from you and says something, you can hardly hear it.

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This is actually creepy. World’s quietest room.

YOHONOMOTO

2/5/23 7:19am

Byu has a room like that. It’s trippy

maxpowers

2/5/23 7:21am

Dang I kind of want to try it. And I kind of don’t.

YOHONOMOTO

2/5/23 7:28am

I believe BYU has one of these

BlueTemplar

2/5/23 7:21am

I heard BYU has one of these. So does Utah, but they call theirs the

m0resn0w

2/5/23 7:31am

I thought Utah called theirs the Huntsman Center?

Roy D Mercer

2/5/23 7:47am

Ahh beat me to it

Adwight

2/5/23 8:01am

I've been in the one at BYU. It's pretty cool. Your brain is used to hearing

LeftOfNormal

2/5/23 7:37am

What building is it in?

thewaterboy

2/5/23 7:43am

Eyring Science, if I recall correctly. (I was a lowly engineer. That field trip

LeftOfNormal

2/5/23 7:49am

I went to engineering school at BYU and have never heard of that place until now

thewaterboy

2/5/23 7:52am

Woohoo! I've finally met an engineer who was even lowlier than me! (I'm sure

LeftOfNormal

2/5/23 7:55am

It's in the physics department. It's down at the lowest level of the ESC

ryebrye

2/5/23 8:04am

Yeah it's been there at least 40 years. I got to visit it as a kid for scouts

Orem58thBall

2/5/23 7:26pm

I can confirm this. I went to it on a campus tour when I was in high school

CougarScrub

2/6/23 10:57am

I wonder if this would exacerbate tinnitus…

m0resn0w

2/5/23 7:45am

I had a bit of it in my 20s, nothing like I do now, and I don't really recall

LeftOfNormal

2/5/23 7:53am

Could you hear a fart?

BYU Grounds

2/5/23 7:47am

Your gif made me think, I bet getting high in there would be AWESOME.

LeftOfNormal

2/5/23 7:57am

Or terrifying…

m0resn0w

2/5/23 8:01am

There is a video of Veritasium checking out the BYU version of that room

Pablo Bot

2/5/23 8:20am

I don’t know who that guy is but enjoyed the video

ColonelMustard

2/5/23 10:11am

Is he a BYU guy? I like his videos.

tony

2/5/23 10:40pm

I've been in these many times. Some FCC/RF testing is done in anechoic chambers

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