May 15th, 2021 at 10:26PM

aquilacalvitium:

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pogaytosalad:

What if silence is in fact a sound, but because its a universal sound we just adapted to it and dont notice it anymore

I actually just wrote a paper on this!!

The short of it is, yes, that’s exactly what happens. There’s no such thing as pure silence outside of a vacuum (and inside a vacuum you’d be dead). So basically your ears are constantly adapting to the noise threshold of your surroundings and slowly ignoring it. If you were in a perfectly silent room (anechoic chambers are cool!) you would actually start to hear the sound of existing!

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  28. pogaytosalad posted this
    What if silence is in fact a sound, but because its a universal sound we just adapted to it and dont notice it anymore
97,685 notes #they say when you go in an anechoic chambers you start to hear your blood and heartbeat on the inside#which sounds. horrible
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