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Same here. If I clench my jaw or push it forward it gets much louder and more noticeable, especially on one side.
by J-dawg 10y ago
Same here. If I clench my jaw or push it forward it gets much louder and more noticeable, especially on one side.
- tim333 10y agoI was reading up on the physics of how hearing works at the molecular level and the movements involved are very small of the order of the width of an atom so shoving elsewhere on the head might be able to affect things in the ear on that scale. The mechanism kind of works by running a sort of string (tip link) between two hairs linked to an ion channel so when a wave moves the hairs the string pulls the channel open enough to let K+ ions through. The whole thing looks Heath Robinson enough to go wrong fairly easily. http://www.cochlea.eu/en/hair-cells http://www.cochlea.eu/en/hair-cells