Salt Lake Telegram | 1917-11-11 | Page 38 | Nose May Reveal Unknown Vibrations

I Nose May Reveal Unknown Vibrations THE scale of vibrations from the I gamma gamm rays emitted by radium which are but one ten-millionth ten of J i millimetre in length to the lon longest est waves which are re more than ten Len thousand metres covers about forty-eight forty octaves Of Ot these OctaV octaves 3 our eyes reveal to us the one octave that makes up the visible spectrum our organs of ot feeling feeling- reveal to us at least to some extent the eight octaves of ot heat waves 6 With certain instruments instruments ments meats other octaves which are Imperceptible Imperceptible imperceptible Im Im- im- im perceptible to any of our senses senses- those of the wireless waves for in instance In- In stance stance may may be m measured and util util- ired But between the X-rays X and the violet ultra-violet of the tho spectrum there JheN is 18 a gap of nine octaves of which we known absolutely nothing Nor do o we know v anything of those below th the infra The New York Medical Journal offers offers offers of of- fers the novel suggestion that perhaps our sense of smell may one day perceive perceive per per- some of these vibrations and it cites some som interesting remarks by Tabre the French naturalist on the sense sense of insects that Is far more subtle than our ur own Speaking of certain tain taia moths the females of which attract attract attract at at- at- at tract the males from incredible distance distances dist dist- ances aneca he says I It IL does not emit molecules it vi vibrates vibrates vibrates vi- vi brates it sets in m motion waves capable capable capable cap cap- able of spreading i distances incompatible incompatible with a real diffusion of ot matter mat mat- ter In its entirety tY therefore re smell would thus seem to have two domains domains domains do do- mains that of the particles dissolved dissolve in the air and that of ot the ethereal waves aves The first alone Is known 10 ous o ous us the second escapes us al at- at together Like light odor dor has its X X- X rays Should science one day Instructed instructed instructed in in- by the insect endow us with witha a radiograph of smells this artificial nose win will open out to us a world of marvels And the Medical J Journal hints that perhaps in this unknown realm may maybe mar be hidden the solution of the mystery of the influence of atmospheric c changes anges and bad air ir upon the human human body and the conditions that produce epidemics of disease