SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH:
Sound researchers from the world renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have arrived in Sydney and are preparing to capitalise on a suddenly arising opportunity to further their work.
Members of MIT’s audio research laboratory landed at Sydney’s International Airport this morning after an overnight flight from Boston which also carried two of MIT’s portable anechoic chambers, often referred to as totally noiseless rooms.
Speaking after arrival, Professor Mike Rophone, (pictured above in one of the anechoic chambers) said the team he led specialised in researching silence.
“I know it sounds odd – pardon the pun – but I have been researching silence for several decades now and I have continued to pursue the goal of setting a measurement for the most silent moment ever not recorded,” Professor Rophone said.
“My team was alerted to the possibility of capturing that lack of sound by fellow researchers in Australia when they read an item on a news website about the nation’s Opposition Leader’s decision to use taxpayers’ funds to charter a plane to attend a Murdoch media event sponsored by Australian mining magnate and noted portrait sitter Gina Rinehart. (below)
“Our colleagues Down Under suggested we head here as soon as possible because it was a golden opportunity to achieve our longstanding goal.”
Professor Rophone said on the advice of his Australian colleagues his team would rush their equipment to News Crap Australia’s head office at Holt Street in Surry Hills and to Sky News “after dark” studios at Macquarie Park.
“We are very, very confident that we’ll be able to measure new depths of silence at both locations when the story about Mr Dutton is not mentioned,” he said.
“From what our Aussie friends tell us, this sounds like – or not sounds like to be correct – that it could be the greatest moment of my working life.”
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