What Does the Quietest Place on Earth Sound Like? 

When you have tinnitus like me, the quietest place on earth sounds like this "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee"

"I'm a bag of noise" best phase ive heard all year.

Should’ve been sponsored by “A Quiet Place”

“Adorable little hooty boys” -Kyle Hill, 2018

I'm telling you, you don't realize how much noise you make until it's dead silent.

“adorable little hooty boys” is probably the cutest sentence i have ever heard. thank you, kyle. you just made my day.

I've been in that room. It is unsettling. You don't know your ears are ringing until that ringing is like everyone in a theater whistling the same tune. You can hear your hair rustling (I have centimeter length hair). You can hear the tendons in your body making popping sounds and creaking, You can hear your blood pumping, you can hear your eyeballs moving. you become aware of your nose and mouth airways, mucus in your nose blocking your airway or the slight rasp of inhaling. I sneazed in there and it was almost painful because i was more aware of my body convulsing to do the action. Seriously, You wouldn't last a hour in there. I could see it as a torture chamber or asylum room. It would drive you INSANE in Seconds! But you gotta try it once. Makes you appreciate white noise, like air-conditioning or crowd noise

"I'm a bag of noise" -Kyle Hill, 2018

Would it be the Sound of Silence?

If you are deaf then this would be the most boring roadtrip of your life

I love how this video is sponsored by the movie skyscraper and the video is based around the idea of the quiet place. I loved the video, keep up the great work!!

Do a video how you write backwards so well

What’s interesting to me is that even in complete silence you’ll still hear noises (ie the sound of your own blood flowing in your ears) but to a psychological side of it, it’s always interesting to hear what people say they THINK they hear in a silent room. Like when people are completely convinced a place is haunted so that even in a dead silent room (no pun intended) they swear they can still hear footsteps or voices when there are none because they’ve built that expectation in their mind so their brain will make it so. I wonder, if you put someone in a sensory deprivation chamber but build an expectation to them beforehand, how closely they would experience what they were expecting compared to the what actually is being heard or felt

Instead of being quite, could we not just build machines that make a lot of noice? So the monsters would be deafened and not hear us?

"On the next episode of Thor sings Opera in a sound proof chamber..."

I was literally just smashing through my drums and then I start watching this so If I were in this movie I’d get killed instantly. I’m also a talkative person in general, and loud. And sometimes I snore

"Ahhh, I'm a bagga noise..."

Hey Kyle, So owls have specialized feathers that help them fly almost completely silent. Interestingly, there are also birds that have feathers that do the exact opposite. Several types of dove actually have specialized feathers that produce sound when moved a certain way. The feathers are used as a warning to other birds and have even been shown to have different tones for different threats. Thanks for the fun! -Mike

10:20 thats a jim carrey moment 😂

I always hear a ring in my ears 24/7 so I have no clue in the world what Silent is

If there was an extraterrestrial race that had hearing sensitive enough to hear us from miles away, we might be able to beat them by being extremely loud. As in, sonic amplifiers turned to 15 loud. If they had ears that could hear quiet sounds from long distances, then it could be reasoned that extremely loud sounds from extremely short distances could permanently damage their ears, or even kill them. If that were the case, we'd be able to fend them off by shouting at them through megaphones, speakers, etc. Present Mic style, which would not only be awesome, but hilarious in retrospect.

I am jealous of his hair loreal ..

Could you please make a video on how cloak and dagger's powers work? I think it probably has a lot to do with quantum mechanics. I know almost nothing on this subject, but I know it can be used to explain teleportation. I also know that quantum mechanics have a lot to do with antimatter. I think that Tandy's light daggers are probably solid matter, whereas Tyrone's smoke stuff that can be seen surrounding him might be gaseous antimatter. This would explain how when they tried to touch eachother, it created a blast that sent them both flying.

If a tree falls in an empty forest, would it really make a noise? Technically, yes, but also, no

I haven't seen the movie, but someone told me about the waterfall setting. I wonder if anyone could set up an artificial sound "camouflage". They could place say a speaker hooked up to an iPod inside a cage, running this constantly until the creatures learn to avoid the area. Obviously the logistics of this would be more difficult than just a speaker in a cage. Also with hearing that sensitive could people employ stun grenades as a way to disable them and permanently damage their hearing.

If a creature had better hearing than us and was hunting us there is no way we could be quiet enough to hide from them. You could only hope to drown out our own noises with the noises of things they are not interested in, in the same way you can't hear someone talking in a noisy place.

There flying is dead silent Owl: REEEeeeeeeeee

A few years ago, my hearing was tested by an ENT (ear, nose and throat doctor.) I was able to easily and consistently hear sounds at 0 dB. I CAN hear a watch at over a meter away. I can hear a clock tick through a wall. It’s not easy having hypersensitive hearing. Sounds most people take for granted can be uncomfortable, or even painful, for me.

If these aliens are so sensitive to noise then surely you would not even need to be noisier outside as the human body makes all sorts of noises (as you mentioned about your teeth) so as with some animals they should be able to even hear your heart beating. So the scene where the alien was in the bathroom she would be alien food because not only would her heart be beating it would be even louder due to it beating faster, so much so the alien could possible hear it rushing through your body. Also the longer you hold your breath the more your body has to work again increasing the sound. Ohh yeah so my point is if an alien is in the room or close by it would not matter how quiet you are, you are gonna be eaten.

So I watched the Ant Man Footnotes and then this episode on Tuesday - woke up at 4 AM from a nightmare where an angry woman quantum tunneled through my front door because I was making too much noise... So, thanks for that... :P I love the on-site stuff! Great episode :)

This was a really cool video, Kyle. I really enjoyed the field trip! Love the work you guys do, keep it up!

Omg I'm so Happy i stumbled upon this channel. You are awesome!

You also don't realize how quite the world could be until you get tinitus and loose that quiet forever. Protect your ears ;)

Damn, I wish they thought of anechoic chamber like homes in the movie.

I love the movie A Quiet Place, I also love the videos you made that refer to sound. This one, the Thunderclap, and Black Bolt. I've been too a bunch of metal concerts and you're right those are loud.

12:52 Kyle, we don't live on the same continent. We're more than 30 km away. And I hear you perfectly

Not sure if this has been mentioned yet, but here are a few quotes that may handle elevation and front/back localizations. The shape of the outer ear (pinna) that transforms the frequency characteristic of incoming sound. In terms of directional hearing it is thought that sounds coming from above lead to a different head transfer function than sounds from below. This means that localization can only be accomplished when the sound has a particular familiar characteristic that is slightly disturbed in the frequency domain when encountered at different angles of elevation (Hofman & Van Opstal, 2003). Front-back localization is thought to be mediated by processes similarly to elevation cues. Spectral modifications work like filters and are derived from the reflections of sound caused by the shape and size of the head, neck, shoulders, torso, and especially, by the pinnae (Zhang & Hartmann, 2010).

Depends on the person listening really, to me it would sound like an endless ringing since i have Tinnitus...wish i didn't thought, makes falling asleep allot harder unless i have some white noise...or an awesome podcast that doesn't use jumpscares like Because Science so i can dooze off, keep the awesome work Kyle.

your voice sounded so good while you were in that room. it was so much more peaceful to listen to, it actually made me feel noticeably calmer and more relaxed :)

I Love the sense of humor of this channel. 2nd video ive seen so far. stuff i watch in the middle of the night when i cant sleep haha

😯 -80 dB So quet, *your ear bones make noise* .

Hooty bois.

Hope you enjoyed your time in Minneapolis Minnesota! We can't wait to be open to the public with appointments in our small, hard to clean space safely again!

“Adorable little hooty bois” I love it 😂

I was hoping for an ASMR Because Science.

Mat pat shouted you out on film theory

Thank you for all the fascinating information...riveting,plus big lols

You're channel is such a awesome place. I love the humor and the science. I mean just look at your Mini-Thor hair. It has to be creating the science.

HOOTIE BOYS

Smarter Every day have a really interesting video about the shape of the human ear and the effect it has on dimensional positioning of the human hearing.

I've helped build anechoic chambers for research. Ther'e also a real electrical problem, fans and light bulbs tend to make 60 cycle noise that is easily picked up by instruments you might use. *Sleeping* in one of these, which I've done, can be disturbing as you drop off, but also tends to lead to oversleeping.

For me to like a RU-vid channel, I usually see about 5 episodes. Kyle, it only took me one episode to hit the subscribe button. Your personality is awesome, bro :)

But you don't actually want to be in the quietest place on Earth, you want to be in the loudest place on Earth so you can act normally and not be heard by the monsters as you'll be overpowered sound-wise by the natural noises :o

Does the db scale go down forever, or is absolute zero sound some finite number?

1:08 “director and former halpert” 😫😫😫 I miss the office

Now that I'm watching a video on quiet things, my dog has found his long lost squeaky toy.

The oooo part is so cringe. I love it

This episode was plain AWESOME. I felt like being on an excursion in Science Class with you 😂 Also very interesting topic. I love that there is a second part coming in coming years! Keep up the awesome work, man! 💕

7:30 I was just waiting for an anechoic chamber to show up. Thumbs up earned!

You: *tells us to put on headphones* also you, later: *makes chewing and other mouth noises that drive people crazy* Well played. You win this round..

Just a quick thought, wouldn't the use of sound masking be just as effective as making your home sound proof? If you could generate pink or white noise that is played in all directions which is at higher decibel levels than regular household activities, it would theoretically make the audible perception of said activities impossible to anyone or anything that was not close enough! It would be like creating an audible barrier around any given area! Think about trying to hear the conversation between two people three rows in front of you at a concert, it's impossible unless you're close enough.

I've seen various youtubers going to such chambers but your video was my favourite

Was in a room like that. The place tested sound emissions for new vehicles. it was a 50' x 50' room and it is very crazy thing you don't realize how much sound there is in our lives till there is virtually no sound. the coolest thing about the place was that one of engineers that worked there put me in the opposite corner than he was in faced each other and he whispered... it was like he was right next to me because of all the echoes from his voice were gone and I just heard the straight sound waves from his voice. it was truly an amazing thing to witness, but I did see how it could be very unsettling.

Congrats bro...i like your videos....teaching with more leisure and casual way 🙌

I know it's figured out at the end of the movie that a certain sound wave will hurt the monsters but i dont think they didn't give Humanity enough credit we would have easily figured out that these creatures have God like hearing and we would have made a device that spits out sound constantly to distract damage or make the monsters run away. The collective Humanity would have figured this out. The only way I can see this not happening if they literally wiped us out overnight and in the movie It's implied that it took some time for the majority of humanity to be killed

On the other wing... sensible chuckle :)

I just subscribed, this is an awesomely educative and entertaining channel.

"Ugh i'm a bag of noise", gonna keep that for later.

The quietest place on earth sounds like Jim from The Office US as it seems from thumbnail 😄

14:41 scared the shit out of me.

“A Quiet Place” is actually an amazing movie. Also, for a movie about silence it’s awfully loud.

I've been in that anechoic chamber before on a tour. It was interesting to say the least. They didn't have the plywood on the floor when I was in there though, that adds a point of reflection.

He's in his death bed. He says this to his grandkids "I will always love you, but I will also love my hooty boys". * A hooty boy flys by*

Can you talk about how slip space works from halo

Thanks to you you I watched "A quiet Place" yesterday. I havn't heard of this movie til you mentioned it. I was impressed, indeed! What a well-made film!

And you were at Orfield with the wood floor in. When they take that out it's a spring floor with even more sound wedges below.

Kyle, the Human ear is designed to understand verticality, the upper and lower lobe are designed to reflect sounds above and below into the ear at different wavelengths and the ear can tell the difference.

If someone wanted to escape super sensitive aliens they could just go live in a busy city. That way they could camouflage themselves with sound. Also, that way they would have self defence. Because of the noise from the city the aliens would probably become deaf. Maybe not fully deaf, but at least their hearing would get a lot closer to that of a human and they couldnt find you. In the worst case for them, they might even die - that depends on their sensitivity.

It's amazing how echos in a room distort sound. Sound deadening walls help; but the best quality hands down is from miking close (10 to 20 in) to every musical instrument. That means booms, cables, etc. EVERYWHERE, yet with a dozen or more instruments you hear every note from everybody all the time. eerie, almost, but GREAT. Type in "youtube/orchestral/active/NEETs", it's a mind blowing improvement even with crappy built-in speakers.

This is my favorite channel to go to about science (duh because well science) and it's about stuff that may seem interesting as well

of course if the monster got into your silent house it would find you much easier.

how can that be the quietest place I would imagine the millions of dust mites to be very talkative

Atop Mount Evans in Colorado on a calm day it was quiet enough for me to hear my heart beat which I found fascinating.

Things like this that have higher hearing thresholds are easier to distract with *_sound traps_* like automated percussion machines rigged to go off when tripped by some trigger or multiple triggers or you know, whatever works. Also, higher hearing thresholds lead to issues with certain equilibrium problems like vertigo. Loud, consistent sounds assailing the ears all at once can lead to dizziness and even to vertigo. I'd be attempting to use this higher hearing threshold against them.

On the subject on surviving against aliens, wouldn't it be easier (both to do and to live in) to go to a place where a lot of noise is made naturally (like a river)? If you did so, then the aliens would know to ignore any noises coming from that area (unless they are complete idiots who will continue to go there no matter what, but at that point, how are they even a threat?), and you would be able to make as much noise as you want. This would be way easier than trying to find a really quiet place and trying to maintain a really quiet lifestyle.

15:23 Actually, at -80db it would not be 100 times quieter. The difference in sound 1 and sound 2 is measured logarithmically. So if we assume we heard a 1db sound from you, the difference wouldn't be 100 times quieter, it would be 100 MILLION (Dr. Evil Pinky) times quieter. Update for critics: Specifically talking about the power pain of the decibels btw, -80db has a power gain of 1E-8 and 1db has a power gain of about ~1. ie 1 and 8 zero difference between the two. I chose 1db as a comparison to play up the 100 to 100 million, and making an observational joke on the over analytic nature of the show in general using the fact that decibels are logarithmic.

I came up with a design for the quietest place on Earth (and possibly even some places in space): You get two, giant, hollow, metal balls, one smaller than the other, which you put inside the bigger one. The smaller one has permanent magnets attached all around it and the bigger one has electromagnets attached all around it (or they are just made of magnets, as long as the balls are airtight) Both balls have sealable doors. You walk into the bigger one and then the smaller one, then you close and seal the doors. From outside, someone starts up the electromagnets powerful enough to make the inner ball levitate inside the bigger one in every direction, so they no longer touch each other. Finally, someone starts a vacuum pump that's connected to the bigger ball and sucks out all the air in between each ball. There would be literally no way for outside sound to be heard in the smaller ball because there would be no matter for it to travel there through. As for inside sound, you could put those foam panels from the video in the smaller ball. Tada, ultimate quietness. (Note: this doesn't really take into account the specific needs for a human to live in this machine.)

Anechoic chambers work in an amazing way. The longer wavelengths with lower energy get absorbed into the cloth foam pieces whereas the shorter higher-energy wavelengths are destructively reverberated as they approach the wall. All of which deaden any sound perceivable by the human ear. Also, hearing is the only sense that is 100% mechanical in nature. Sound makes bones move which make hairs move which trigger nerve response.

@BecauseScience Since the aliens sound threshold is so low, wouldn't average sounds for us hurt their ears like if we yelled through a megaphone to bust their drums or does it depend on their ear structure?

Does the energy sword in halo work similar to that of a lightsaber or completely different ?

I didn’t realize that there was an anechoic chamber here In Minneapolis. I have heard from others who have been inside other chambers that spending too much time can be maddening with nothing but the sounds of your body working. I think it likely depends on the person, some people love to be in quiet places and for others they hate it.

It’s not echoing.. echoing is sound traveling in the direction it comes from the source. You’re referring reverberation. The sound is redirected in a process known as reverb.

The way you described the quiet in that room and the way it amplified little noises sounds like something that's happened to me in the past. I would be sitting in a quiet room (typically the bathroom) at night and the quiet of the room made my ears start to (for lack of a better term) 'ring' and I would hear all the little noises like me bending my elbow or moving my jaw would.

Since those aliens hear way better than us, instead of being quiet, wouldn’t it make sense to make the loudest noise possible to explode their super eardrums?

teacher: ok class whats the sound do you hear in churches... special ed kid: 10:14

I immediately think of sitting out in the woods sitting in a tree stand during a deer hunt. With no wind, it’s so quiet you could hear an ant fart at 100 yards.

Ok science girls and bois, here's my question. Because the aliens are so sesitive to noise, would there be a decible point where the survivors could weaponize the sound against them? If I'm going into spoilery territory feel free to tell to jus go watch thw movie.

How have I only just now stumbled across this beautiful science man??

my room is covered in posters and soundproofing so it has great acoustics for recording. i have to put music on when i sleep a lot of the time because i can actually hear my heart beat and all sorts of other things happening and it's so unsettling

Quietest place on earth: Outer space. Oh wait...