There's an article about it in the New York Times which apparently goes into much more detail, but I don't have a subscription- https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/10/science/silence-sound-hear.html
It is excerpted in this Slashdot post, however, and that may give you enough information to understand it better: https://science.slashdot.org/story/23/07/10/2343221/silence-is-a-sound-you-hear-study-suggests
To sum up, it's not about total silence, it's about perceiving gaps in louder sounds as "sound" rather than the lack of sound.
I just came in to discuss that segment. It made me sick to my stomach.
Or is it.... EeeeeeEEEEEEEEEeeeEEEEEEeeEEEEeeeeeEEEEEEEEE
Thanks. My mother is an aficionado of Persian rugs and she loved this. You made an old lady's morning.
I remember how in The Matrix movies, humans blocked out the sun to stop the computers from taking over. Looks like we're going to ask them whether or not that's a good plan first in our timeline.
Not the science we asked for, but the science we need.
Great. Capitalism literally makes you stupid.
I just did some Googling and apparently, that is a more recent development (at least for physics, medicine and chemistry). Science Nobel laureates used to be young, or at least much younger, but now they are skewing much older. This article discusses it: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37578899
I think once you win a Nobel, it's okay to rest on your laurels.
The Power Glove. It's so rad.
Shameful that this is so upvoted.