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Rogue theory of smell gets a boost
Published online: 6 December 2006
Rogue theory of smell gets a boost
1. A controversial theory of how we smell, which claims that our fine sense
of odour depends on quantum mechanics, has been given the thumbs up by a team of
physicists.
2. Calculations by researchers at University College London (UCL) show that the
idea that we smell odour molecules by sensing their molecular vibrations makes sense
in terms of the physics involved.
3. That's still some way from proving that the theory, proposed in the mid-1990s
by biophysicist Luca Turin, is correct. But it should make other scientists take
the idea more seriously.
4. "This is a big step forward," says Turin, who has now set up his own perfume
company Flexitral in Virginia. He says that since he published his theory, "it has
been ignored rather than criticized."
5. Most scientists have assumed that our sense of smell depends on receptors
in the nose detecting the shape of incoming molecules, which triggers a signal to
the brain. This molecular 'lock and key' process is thought to lie behind a wide
range of the body's detection systems: it is how some parts of the immune system
recognise invaders, for example, and how the tongue recognizes some tastes.
6. But Turin argued that smell doesn't seem to fit this picture very well.
Molecules that look almost identical can smell very different — such as alcohols,
which smell like spirits, and thiols, which smell like rotten eggs. And molecules
with very different structures can smell similar. Most strikingly, some molecules
can smell different — to animals, if not necessarily to humans — simply because
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they contain different isotopes (atoms that are chemically identical but have a
different mass)。
7. Turin's explanation for these smelly
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