This experiment just pops a balloon.
And normally when a balloon would pop, you'd hear the whole room just kind of expand, right?
Yeah, pretty loud.
Yeah, pretty loud.
But in this room, there's none of that.
So you're going to hear it as a very sharp sound that just disappears completely.
Cool.
Welcome to the Anticolor chamber.
Watch your step.
Wow, it is already super quiet in here.
And it's gonna get even more quiet when we close the door.
It did get a lot more quiet.
Yeah.
Welcome to Science Quickly.
I'm Rachel Feldman and today I'm here with Seth Kluwit at Nokia Bell Labs.
And you may notice if you're listening to this or
if you're watching it that there's some interesting stuff going on with the sound.
Seth, would you tell us more about why that is?
Yeah, so we're in the historic anechoic chamber at Bell Labs.
It is a room that absorbs 99.999% of sound wave propagation and eliminates sound from the outside almost entirely.