by Astrid Eichhorn, Sebastian Mizera and Sumati Surya
Silence is a rare commodity in our everyday, technology-driven lives; from the outright blare of car horns in India, to the quieter, but persistent sounds of mobile phones in Germany, constantly alerting us to the incoming messages, to the 24 hour news cycle on Canadian TV. Finding a few quiet moments, unhindered by the constant onslaught of information requires a considerable effort. Indeed, it often feels that noise, not silence is the generic state of our world.
Sebastian Mizera is a graduate student at Perimeter Institute working on various aspects of quantum field theories. He enjoys quiet evenings reading a book.
Sumati Surya is on the faculty of the Raman Research Institute, in Bangalore, India and is currently an Emmy-Noether visiting fellow at the Perimeter Institute, Canada. Although she loves the quiet she also loves the sounds created by her two very active and engaging daughters.
Astrid Eichhorn is currently an Emmy-Noether junior research group leader at the University of Heidelberg, where she and her group explore the fundamental quantum structure of spacetime and matter. When she isn’t exploring asymptotic silence in quantum gravity, she likes to look for silence in the colder more remote regions of our planet.
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