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How a whisper can cross a giant room

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By purely exploiting highly specific curved geometries, certain large circular galleries cleanly bounce quiet soundwaves precisely to the opposite wall. You can lightly murmur a terrible secret from far away, and it perfectly resonates directly into the ear of a completely unintended listener.

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