Would you like to be in the quietest place in the world?

Yüce Yazılım, together with its employees, monitors trends and interesting things in the field of technology and development. One such attraction is the quiet room, which was built by Microsoft. This room helps to fine-tune the electronic generation of goods, but it is also possible to hear the roughness of your bones there.

The specially designed chamber is hidden in the depths of Building 87 at Microsoft's Redmond, Washington headquarters, where the company's hardware labs are located. Products such as Surface, Xbox, and HoloLens computers were developed here. Microsoft engineers built a room known as the anechoic chamber to help them test the new devices they were developing.

The Silent Room in Redmond boasts an official world record for silence, the background sound level of which was measured at the ear-tensioning level of -20.6 decibels. It previously held the world record for the quietest place on Earth at Orfield Laboratories in Minneapolis, which had an anechoic chamber with a noise level of -9.4 decibels. However, Microsoft's lab humbled their sound levels. For a better idea, a human whisper represents a level of about 30 decibels, while the sound of someone breathing is only 10 decibels. A value of -20.6 decibels approaches the limit of what could be considered as noise produced by air molecules that collide with each other at room temperature, which is estimated to be about -24 decibels. The limit of human hearing is considered to be about 0 decibels, although just because our ears cannot pick it up does not mean that there is no sound, and therefore it is possible to get a negative value.

And what does the chamber itself look like?

It took more than two years to find a place, and testing took almost eight months to find a suitable place. The anechoic chamber is in the shape of a cube, which measures 6.36 m in each direction. The chamber is set in the heart of six concrete layers of onions that help block sounds from the outside world. The chamber sits at the heart of six concrete layers of onions that help block sounds from the outside world. Each wall is up to 12 inches thick, which helps reduce noise reaching the chamber by about 110 decibels. The chamber itself floats on top of 68 vibration damping springs mounted on its separate base plate. The floor is made of steel cables, which is used to stop fighter jets during landing. Seals around the chamber door and rooms help prevent noise leakage. The result of these and other measures is a really quiet place.

Microsoft offers a tour of the sound labs, which includes a trip inside the anechoic chamber. However, most visitors consider it a very unpleasant experience, even some want to spend a few seconds there. Inside the chamber, you can hear the activity of your heart, stomach, your breath, some may feel dizzy. People are used to every sound that produces a little echo from the world around us, while there is a dead sound in the chamber. Peter Suedfeld, a psychologist at the University of British Columbia who studied sensory deprivation, compared the entrance to one of these chambers as the entrance to a dark room. Over time, people get used to it, just like in a dark room where they can't see anything at first, but then their eyes adjust.

However, this silence has a much more constructive use than just listening to our bodies. It is a place where electronic devices are listened to. Vibrations are produced that are produced by capacitors on electrical circuit boards as current passes. As a result, the components on the board can create an unpleasant hum, which can be unpleasant for consumers. The chamber is also used for other computer components that can make sounds from power to the cooling fan and sound from the display as the backlight increases. Not all of their work is about trying to find annoying sounds. They also help tune the sound that various components, such as keyboard noise, should produce. The performance of microphones in products or speakers is tested on the use of the device to look for any distortion or truncation of frequencies. Besides, engineers are using the chamber to test the performance of new technologies, such as Microsoft Cortana's artificial intelligence assistant, and to develop techniques for replicating three-dimensional sound to display its HoloLens virtual reality.

What is it like after coming out of this property? Munroe described it as entering another world where things could be heard that we would not normally notice. This gives you a new perspective. And what about you? Would you like to be in the quietest place in the world?

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