A Certain ‘Ring’ to It: The Particle Physics of Smell

Robert Johnson
2 min readMar 31, 2020
Photo by Joseph Greve on Unsplash

Biologists thought they knew everything important to know about our sense of smell. Turns out they had only a partial appreciation of the intricacies of our olfactory connections.

In a superb CuriosityStream two-episode broadcast, ‘The Secrets of Quantum Physics’, UK Professor Jim Al-Khalili covers the quantum physics involved. Specifically, his second episode, called…

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Robert Johnson

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