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Old 04-10-2007, 10:52 PM
pgardn
 
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Default The Speed of Smell determined.

My kitchen has just become the site of one of the most important discoveries known to man... Some of the old mundane but useful constants first:

Speed of light 3 x 10^8 m/s
Avagadro's number 6.23 x 10^23
The universal electric constant 8.99 x 10^9 N*m^2/C^2
The Universal gravitational constant 6.67 x 10 ^-11 N*m^2/kg^2
pi 3.14... you take it from there

The speed of smell ~ 10.21 m/s at a pressure of 760 torr and temp. of 23 degrees C.

My cat reacted to the smell of tunafish opened by an aluminum peel off lid (Inky has never heard this sound before) in 0.49 seconds at exactly 5 meters away. He did not see the can. He does not like me that much. But he made the smell move. The measurements are fairly accurate.

I will remember all of you in my speech at Stockholm. Nobel Prize... Sweet. And I thank you.
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