A Certain ‘Ring’ to It: The Particle Physics of Smell
2 min readMar 31, 2020
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…