Rend Me Your Ears

Published: Sept. 26, 2011, 7 a.m.

b'Shh - can you keep it down? Nope. Not unless you want to do away with civilization. Our buzzing, humming, whirling, machine-driven world is a poster child for technological progress, right? As is hearing loss. It\\u2019s driven one man to search the world for silence. We\\u2019ll hear what he didn\\u2019t hear, and what Einstein predicted we should hear in deep space, where gravitational waves may reveal the hidden sounds of the universe, including the birth of black holes.\\nGuests:\\n\\n\\nGeorge Foy - Author of Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute Silence\\n\\n\\nGarret Keizer - Author of The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want\\n\\n\\n\\nCraig Hogan - Director for Particle Astrophysics at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory\\n\\nDescripci\\xf3n en espa\\xf1ol\\nFirst aired July 5, 2010\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'