Silence is Golden
What is your favourite popular tune? Mine is an old classic, Simon and Garfunkel’s “The Sound of Silence”.
Silence has a whole sound - of nothingness. If you have ever spent more than a minute in an inechoic chamber (where audio engineers can measure sound accurately since there are no echoes or reflections from the walls or other surfaces) the total quiet can be weird, but it’s also a wonderful sensation. I looked at 78 properties for the absence of all road and aircraft noise before I ...