You Use Quantum Physics to Smell

[@domainofscience]

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Hey Peter, yeah you make a good point. I'll add it to my to-do list and see if I can find some good online resources. Thanks!

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"because we can smell in the dark" is such a great line out of context

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In fact we can smell more in the dark due to sensory depravation

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[@athoye]

You should've mentioned that the both Vibration and Quantum tunneling theory explains why we can't smell relatively cold objects.

[@domainofscience]

I hadn't even thought of that! That is very interesting.

[@xavierxrc]

The problem with quantum biology is that it has an explanation for everything and is not testable or specific. So the reason we can't smell things that are cold is simply because when there's less humidity there's less volatile compounds in the air so less compounds a nose can detect. So when molecules move across a cell membrane parts of it can fit into a receptor. The volatile compound doesn't stop reacting with the nose after it reacts with one part of it, it keeps moving along the nasal passage and most probably another part of the molecule reacts with the nose receptors. This makes the compound have a more complex smell. Smell is more like the rods and cones cells in your eyes. You have specific cells and receptors that can recognize specific functional groups aldehydes, esters, alcohols, ketones, thiols, etc. These combinations lead to different smells

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@@xavierxrc good point

[@xavierxrc]

@pyropulse I understand you want quantum biology to explain sense of smell, probably many other things too, but you said it yourself, life is complex so something so simple most likely wouldn't suffice for the answer. The prevailing theory on smell is what I just described. If you've ever smelled formaldehyde you know it has a very distinct strong smell. Most chemicals that are just a functional group or only has one functional group are particularly sharp when detected that's how we know functional groups are what interacts with nose receptors. All you have to do is Google "how does sense of smell work" and you'll see I didn't just pull this out the air. Actually I learned this in undergrad in my behavioral psychology and neuroscience class. I have nothing to gain from making false statements.

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We cannot smell cold objects because the molecules can't travel from the cold food to our nose. And molecules in cold objects(solids)are more tightly packed than liquid or gaseous form.

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As a med student, I really appreciate that you explained the complex concepts in such an entertaining way. I recently was taking my receptor classes of physiology and I was particularly interested in sense of smell and that how little we know about it. Great video.

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[@TheOwlGilga]

That also means taste is effected by quantum physics, it's been stated quite a lot that heavy water tastes sweet. Also with mirrored molecules, it should make a tiny difference how they are since the atoms outside of the benzene ring interact with each other in a very small manner. Or as you said, they just do both.

[@domainofscience]

Yeah I'm unsure. There is a large smell component to taste, so it could be that heavy water actually smells different, but tastes the same. I think taste receptors work differently to smell receptors, but I'm going to have to look that up! :D

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@@domainofscience Smell and taste actually do use the same kind of receptors. Thanks for the video.

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@@JeffreyPhillipsFreeman then we should be able smell by mouth. Isn't it?

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[@domainofscience]

Hey thanks! Yeah someone pointed that out to me and I fixed it in the posters. The video will have to stay as it is though. Thanks very much! :D

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Never imagined how quantum physics could have such a strong link to something like our sense of smell. This opened my eyes to a whole new world i had completely ignored until now. Thank you very much, this was such a great video!!!

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[@karinwhitwood2368]

Love the video, thanks! I wonder how you would explain varying smelling ability. For example, dogs can smell seizures coming - presumably chemical changes in the body prior to a seizure. But, even staying within the human species, there are people with more adept senses of smell. More receptors? Ability to sense different vibrations? Interested in your thoughts. Thanks again - love the mapping.

[@domainofscience]

From my research here are a few bonus facts: Bloodhounds have a 40x larger olfactory epithelium, and so physically more smell neurons, plus a larger area of their brain dedicated to smell. Bears have the best noses, 7 times more sensitive than a bloodhound's and can smell a carcass 20km away. Within humans the sense of smell does vary, but I don't know what causes this variation but my guess would be more or fewer receptors.

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Nice video. Would love to see more about our senses, how we taste, see, etc.

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I like that this has quantum tunneling involved in not just human, but many animal's ability to smell. It shows that these organisms seem to use the same molecular apparatus to identify the molecules and I just think it's awesome that quantum physics takes place inside my face every time I breathe in. But what's even more awesome is that if this is possible here in this one example, what else could be possible through quantum technology? Other senses? There's always quantum computers, which seem to be getting on nicely. But what I find truly crazy is the potential for organisms on other planets around other stars - and what they might have done differently with such a crazy versatile tool. Then again, we're getting smarter and learning about it so I suppose it's now one of our new tools to explain things and test against - Hooray for progress!

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Excellent video. Quantum biology will be a hot topic this century. Not only in Vibrational Smell, but electron-transfer Photosynthesis, entanglement Bird Migration, etc. As a physicist, I am amazed that quantum effects are appearing in biology - BUT, think of this: If quantum physics effects are real, Nature and Evolution would have figured a way to use them to advantage. Nature has had eons to experiment. We physicist just stumbled upon the quantum world a century ago. Of course Nature beat us to it.

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[@jcwyu]

Quantum tunneling actually describes how an electron approaches the interface (at some energy) and can appear at both sides simultaneously. That is the "tunneling" effect, kind of like it is depicted in science fiction movies. Whether the particles does bleed into and through another dimension, that is yet to be debated. As of the moment, there has been a lot of computing and modelling work based on classical and quantum equations which guys like Einstein, Bohr, Schrodinger have formulated, but no one really understands this stuff. I have been working in gas sensing technology and interfaces for over a decade (Ph.D. and all) with about 50 publications. There also thermodynamic and magnetic components that we haven't even conceived of, let alone electron spin-up or spin-down. It becomes very very complicated to model, however for simplicity, 'the nose works'. We have yet to really scratch the surface...

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This is amazing and so well vulgarized. While I am a neuroscientist, I am far from having a good understanding of physics. You have helped me in this respect so thanks. So, I have an "out-there" question. Can humans detect smells that arise from basic human emotions, specifically fear and could we measure it. Ex: expose a participant to stimuli that induce a fear response while wearing a simple cotton t-shirt. take another blind subject and expose them to the odour and ask what emotion they think the person wearing the shirt was feeling. I know this sounds crazy but I do have a rationale behind it.

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Hey just a quick question, what scientific field do you think is the most important to understand? Biology, Chemistry, Physics and others if there are any that I don't know about .. What is the most important to you and why? Also, I love the color schemes you choose for your maps!!

[@domainofscience]

An impossible question to answer. Physics is my favourite, but there is no sense in saying it is more important than others, they are all great! The most important thing to me is the goal of the scientific method as a way of thinking and unpicking what is real and what isn't. Critical thinking and evidence based reasoning is fundamental because you can bring it to any discipline. Thanks! :D

[@jeunjetta]

HomeSkillenSLICE I think the most useful is having a good grasp of ALL of them. Great Insights come when trying to reconcile different models with each other. 😊 PS you don't have to officially Study all of them. Just follow your nose to hop from one to the next. Haha 😉

[@HomeSkillenSLICE]

No problem and awesome, thank you for your time, great perspective I tend to think that Physics is the most important field, because it is the one field that determines what can and can't be done in other fields ex. is it possible to transfer hundreds of pages worth of information in 2-3 seconds flat? Well yes it is, because light can travel the earth 7 times and we can use this light to represent streams of information that are re-interpreted into words or forms of media Awesome video, looking forward to your future work!

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Please also do a video about the quantum biology in photosynthesis or bird navigation!

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At 8:38 I started to smell some candy and it was the first time I smelled something knowing that my nose is some crazy quantum system. Incredible.

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[@VyMariaDong]

Great video! Can't the fact that the proteins that participate in quantum tunneling are chiral account for the different smells of enantiomers? Like having a chiral Raman spectrophotometer?

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I loved your video. Could you please put some of your references in the comment section. I m interested to read more about it as physicist.

[@CalvinHikes]

What about for me? I don't have a sense of smell.

[@androidkenobi]

wait... newborn baby smell? What? Is that like a fresh-out-of-the uterus smell or something else? How long does it last? So many questions

[@domainofscience]

Its not that I go around smelling babies, that would be weird. But that is a thing, that babies have a smell that people find pleasant. Right? Please someone back me up... :P

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Sure, man, sure. We won't question your baby smelling habit. ;)

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I think it's something related to an evolutionary advantage. (To find our babies's smell pleasing would increase the chances of that baby not being thrown away) [Sorry for awful english]

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I have 7 little siblings, so I have firsthand experience with baby smell. Newborns are totally clean right from the womb, so they smell perfect. Their breath smells like honey.

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baby powder

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That's super weird. No I haven't paid for any promotion, and I won't be offended if you unsub :)

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[@domainofscience]

That makes total sense, thank you. :)

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Great video! It's mind blowing!😃

[@origamigek]

It's nice to think that quantum tunneling is one of the methods our body uses to smell. But we don't know for sure, and I personally think it's probably not correct. There is obviously very convincing evidence that the vibration of bonds play a huge role in the smell of a molecule, but this vibration could be measured in a vast amount of ways, not just by tunneling, which involves electrons crossing a gap, which sounds like something we would build, which involves metal and stuff. I'm just freestyling here but I'm pretty sure receptors could detect such vibration through for example resonance. And even classical physics could predict this. Bond vibration can be approximated by newtonian coulombian equations. Also yeah, it's amazing that our sense of smell is due to quantum mechanics, but really a lot of things are. Our vision relies on the quantization of light match the energy difference between the cis and trans forms of receptor molecules in the eyes. tl;dr "Your nose uses quantum tunnelling to smell!" Eh, probably not, but quantum effects are everywhere.

[@TheApostleofRock]

heres my instantaneous hypothesis of a late night chem student who hasnt even gotten a B.S. I also didn't think for more then a second so it could fall apart easily. perhaps shape dictates a molecule's orientation such that the electron excites a particular chiral constituent. That is to say, some enantiomers smell different because a CH bond is vibrating more freely than a C-halogen bond for example. Jk no idea.

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I thought of you while watching this! And nice to see your smiling face pop up ...

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[@dingoo1971]

Very interesting, thanks a lot! I think, this is just the tip of the iceberg. The brain as a whole is a quantum sensitive antenna for all kinds of influences. an interface for spirits. Now waiting for more mechanisms like this one to be revealed. And btw, the name is "Planck"

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Great video, but I think you misspelled planck's contant when discussing the energy of photons. Anyways, keep up the good work!

[@dialogchannel4691]

Hello I have one question for you Domain of Science. Why when I smell the fragrance of perfumes. Or gas. Plastic. And other. And why the scents create me Nausea and vomit. Explain to me what doctor can help me

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God's tiny details in our bodies! How exciting!

[@gilbertengler9064]

Just excellent explained ALL your contributions. But concerning smell, is it not possible that f.e. 100 different chemical groups are sensed by different receptors and that a unique combination of these signals can create a mix able to discriminate 10000 types of odeurs?

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Another great video. What's the software you use to do the map animations?

[@domainofscience]

I use a combo of Photoshop, After Effects and Premiere Pro. I'm going to do a video explaining how I do it all as this is a frequent question I get.