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the physics of why your shower makes you sound like a god
means The branch of physics concerned with how sound behaves — how it travels, reflects, and is absorbed in a given space — or the sound qualities of a room itself.
from From the Greek 'akoustikos,' meaning 'pertaining to hearing,' which traces back to the verb 'akouein,' 'to hear.' English borrowed the term in the 17th century as the science of sound began to take shape — naming it, fittingly, after the act of listening rather than the act of making noise.
- whisper galleries
- curved walls carry whispers across entire rooms
- anechoic silence
- quietest rooms can make you hear your blood
- reverb time
- cathedrals hold a note for whole seconds
- underwater speed
- sound travels four times faster in water
- infrasound
- frequencies too low to hear can trigger dread
sydney opera house — iconic building with revolutionary curved shell design that creates complex acoustic properties in its concert halls
abbey road studios — legendary london recording studio where the beatles recorded with carefully engineered acoustic chambers
walt disney concert hall — los angeles venue designed by frank gehry with wooden acoustic reflectors that took years to perfect the sound