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the loudest answer you'll ever get, and the hardest one to argue with
means The complete absence of sound, or the deliberate act of not speaking.
from From Latin silentium, 'a being still,' built on silere, 'to be quiet, to keep still.' That root flowed into Old French silence and on into English. The same silere gives us 'silent,' and it once described not just hushed voices but the stillness of windless seas and motionless nights.
- Anechoic chamber
- Quietest room makes you hear your own heartbeat
- 4'33"
- Cage composed a piece of pure silence
- Brain fills gaps
- Total quiet triggers phantom sounds and hallucinations
- Legal weapon
- Right to remain silent protects against self-incrimination
- No true void
- Perfect silence is physically impossible anywhere
for instance
great silence radio telescope — italian radio observatory built into a radio-silent zone in abruzzo to detect faint signals without interference
npr hourly silence — npr's one-minute news break format that begins each hour with 10 seconds of silence before the anchor speaks