This sound-suppressing silk can create quiet spaces

Thank you so much for posting. I've been kinda obsessed with how noise cancellation could graduate from earphones to bigger scales, but the best answers I've always gotten is that it would take too much energy or would be not feasible for other (practical engineering) reasons.

This could have major (positive) health implications. See this story (about noise) in the New Yorker.

@abnerjack You're most welcome. And if we, in audio, have not made the connection, it's hard to imagine others fully realizing it (other than the biologists).

Some have commented it might be very expensive. Perhaps. But if it became standardized and developed as a building material, audiophiles would benefit the way we do when we make our own absorbers, now.