In auditory illusion tests, people perceive silence as a form of sound, just as Simon and Garfunkel suggested. By Bethany Brookshire The hush at the end of the musical performance. The pause in a ...

The problem with silence is that it is so terribly noisy. We’ve all been sold a lie. In reality, nothing in nature is truly silent and there’s a lot going on in the darkness; the sound of your own ...

It was the sound of running water — not the sound of silence. That was the mundane muse behind the angelic ascension of “The Sound of Silence” — the chart-topping classic that had Simon & Garfunkel ...