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- From: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: how one becomes drunk
- Followup-To: talk.bizarre,sci.chem,sci.med,alt.drugs
- Date: 8 Jan 1993 21:35:48 GMT
- Organization: NASA Langley Research Center and Reptile Farm
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- In article <1993Jan8.210655.17176@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> pfinerty@nyx.cs.du.edu (fun fun fun boy) writes:
- >
- >the point of this is that the molecule is lopsided. it is unbalanced. due
- >to brownian motion molecules are always moving in when in solution. but,
- >because the EtOH molecule is lopsided it swings sort of like a pendulum and
- >as such is always crashing in to other things, like the inside of your head
- >for instance. it this this banging around which makes you feel light headed
- >and sort of dizzy. it is also what causes the hangover you might get the
- >next day. it's really no surprise that peoples heads hurt the next day when
- >they had a lopsided molecule crashing around their head all night.
-
- If this is indeed the mechanism which causes drunkenness, then one would
- expect that the more lopsided the molecule is, the more rapidly it would
- induce the effects. You could easily test this out by drinking a variety
- of alcohols which had a verying number of carbon atoms in the chain. If
- you became drunk faster on the alcohols that had a greater number of carbons,
- then this would add support for your theory.
- --scott
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