Quantum hearing
I've done some agonising on the advisibility of raising this, but...
They think that smell is in part a quantum phenomenon.
This is prompted by chemicals having the same smell and different shapes. This has raised problems with the existing lock-and-key model of smell which has been around for a while, and is still thought to take a significant part in proceedings. Two similar smells taken were cyanide and oil of almonds.
These have radically different sizes, but they share resonant frequencies in their bonds.
In order to test this they trained a load of fruit flies to follow a smell, then they substituted deuterium for hydrogen in whatever they were smelling, and the fruit flies lost the trail. So there must have been some other clue, because both molecules fit the same lock.
Anyway they (they) think that the resonant frequency is detected by injecting an entangled electron into the molecule being smelled. Don't push me on this one, I don't know what part the other entangled electron plays.
This raises the horrific spectre of quantum hearing. If QE is involved in smell then who knows, it could be involved in hearing.
I offer no explanation as to how, but I'm sure it won't take some inventive subjectivist long.
I've done some agonising on the advisibility of raising this, but...
They think that smell is in part a quantum phenomenon.
This is prompted by chemicals having the same smell and different shapes. This has raised problems with the existing lock-and-key model of smell which has been around for a while, and is still thought to take a significant part in proceedings. Two similar smells taken were cyanide and oil of almonds.
These have radically different sizes, but they share resonant frequencies in their bonds.
In order to test this they trained a load of fruit flies to follow a smell, then they substituted deuterium for hydrogen in whatever they were smelling, and the fruit flies lost the trail. So there must have been some other clue, because both molecules fit the same lock.
Anyway they (they) think that the resonant frequency is detected by injecting an entangled electron into the molecule being smelled. Don't push me on this one, I don't know what part the other entangled electron plays.
This raises the horrific spectre of quantum hearing. If QE is involved in smell then who knows, it could be involved in hearing.
I offer no explanation as to how, but I'm sure it won't take some inventive subjectivist long.
. . . Maybe it's not QE but just the brains inability to differentiate between certain lock and key combos.
I mean, who goes around sniffing cyanide, almonds and that deuterenium stuff ? Our sense of smell is designed to help us tell apples from oranges, excrement from chocolate cake and so forth.
I mean, who goes around sniffing cyanide, almonds and that deuterenium stuff ? Our sense of smell is designed to help us tell apples from oranges, excrement from chocolate cake and so forth.
Been reading Luca Turin by any chance? One of my heroes
Ah no, nothing so exotic. I might now, recommend one please.
Just a longstanding interest in the nature of reality that predates even drinking the coolaid.
Excess noise of a truly horrible resistor. I published this years ago but can no longer find bad enough resistors. The idea was to make a Wheatstone bridge of four of them and using an in-amp at high gain trim for 0 DC, but there is no limit on the low frequency end in this configuration.
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How about white noise through a low gain op amp integrator? There are digital noise generator circuits that could be run slowly enough.
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Right, that would be just amplitude. MATLAB can do this.
COLORED_NOISE - 1/F^alpha Power Law Noise Generation
An illustration, what No Compromise means. Enjoy!
Is that a Bybee crystal?
Thanks for that image, I may never stop giggling.
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