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Testing if 60 minutes of silence drives you crazy

Veritasium · explainer · Watch on YouTube

Everyday physics & science demosPsychology & human behavior

What it is

Veritasium's Derek Muller spends an hour in a silent, dark anechoic chamber at BYU to test the claim that 45 minutes is the most anyone can bear. He reports on his experience and other people's reactions.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN links it in threads about silence and quiet rooms, as a good first-hand look at the anechoic chamber that debunks the madness myth.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2014, last 2019

What HN commenters said

  1. “There's a nice Veritasium video of an anechoic chamber here, with different people's reactions to it”

    People's reactions inside an anechoic chamber

    white-flame, 2017-04 · Recommendation · in “A New Yorker's Quest for the Perfect Amount of Noise”

  2. “Derek from Veritasium has a good video on it for the interested.”

    Good video on the experience of the silent room

    Baeocystin, 2019-09 · Recommendation · in “Black Blacker Than Vantablack”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: silence, anechoic chamber, veritasium, sound, psychology

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