Quantum Smell
Although the scientistic scientist took offense at my citing the essay on which he or she had worked--in the draft that I revised (deleting the citation) before publication--I do insist, there is scientific evidence that smell operates at the quantum scale.
Never mind though. The objection is largely irrelevant to my argument in my essay on ecofeminism, which is that quantum type phenomena are now observable in rather massive entities, such as fullerenes.
"Most researchers think a molecule's odour is determined by its shape, with smells triggered when the molecule enters a suitably shaped receptor in the nose, like a key entering a lock. Luca Turin of the Fleming Biomedical Research Sciences Centre in Vari, Greece disagrees, because some molecules with different shapes have similar smells.
Never mind though. The objection is largely irrelevant to my argument in my essay on ecofeminism, which is that quantum type phenomena are now observable in rather massive entities, such as fullerenes.
"Most researchers think a molecule's odour is determined by its shape, with smells triggered when the molecule enters a suitably shaped receptor in the nose, like a key entering a lock. Luca Turin of the Fleming Biomedical Research Sciences Centre in Vari, Greece disagrees, because some molecules with different shapes have similar smells.
In 1996 he proposed that a smell receptor would only fire when a molecule vibrated at the right frequency. These vibrations provide enough energy to trigger a quantum tunnelling effect, causing an electron to pass across the receptor and trigger a smell."
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