Total silence in the world’s quietest chamber is unbearable beyond 45 minutes

Evidence

a Minnesota laboratory’s anechoic chamber that the Guinness Book of World Records calls “the quietest place on earth,” and where no one has ever endured even forty-five minutes alone in its pitch-black interior before finding the silence intolerable — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels, 2

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute…, 2
• XREF: connects to: Total silence can overwhelm the mind as an alien, unbearable presence — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute…, 222

Library Connections

• Total silence can overwhelm the mind as an alien, unbearable presence #corroborates (0.85) — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels, 222