betasam's Journal: The Electromagnetic Cauldron

The world's population has seemingly reached a maximum it has probably not seen in at least the last two millennia. Demographic analysts point out that in developing, highly populated countries like India and China, the population of younger people aged between 18 and 30 would constitute at least 60% of the whole or more. This immediately spurrs an economic growth, coupled with extreme urbanisation. The resultants have been noticeable. On one hand the economies of such countries have shown a positive growth line, on the other, the problems of rapid urbanisation and volumes are cropping up.

Recently, most magazines have been talking about the presence of many disorders - anxiety, sleep disorders, depression, hypertension and have conveniently labelled them as "stress induced" disorders. Looking at this from an bird's eye view, it would seem that a huge 60%+ working generation would mean heavy competitiveness in turn inducing severe stress levels. This has been verified by the huge increase in prescription and consumption of anti-anxiety/depression/dyssomnia drugs. However, stress levels in prior economic depression in the same demographic class of population and all classes affected severely have been different in nature. While they did induce anxiety and breach hope that took a huge effort to restore, dyssomnia, depression or hypertension were not commonly reported. Today, in an economy which is on a positive spur, people are showing symptoms of these new disorders and are being treated for the same. Worse still, in some countries the young populace attempt to treat themselves (without medical supervision) with mood altering drugs only escalating the problem.

Attempting to trace aetiology, it would seem that the world is now filled with more Electromagnetic radiation, particularly microwave radiation and Radiowaves (RF) than ever before. Both the Microwave and the RF spectrum in complete are known to produce an effect called dielectric heating in organic compounds. (The same effect is employed with a lot more energy in a Microwave oven at ~2.4GHz.) Researchers have confirmed that usage of a mobile phone can raise the surface temperature of the brain by 0.6 degree celsius to 1.0 degree celsius. The same is applicable to any tissue composed of organic matter. Studies were originally done to find the effect of microwave cooked food on carbohydrate content and two opposing schools of thought were formed; one claiming that microwaves could "demetabolise" carbohydrates further than normal cooking, while the other mentioning that the effects were of hardly any significance. Microwaves have the tendency to produce the following effect on higher life forms:

• dielectric polarisation of organic molecules.
• dielectric heating of water and other organic compounds within biological tissue.
• sensory stimuli to the brain of its frequency unrelated to the amplitude (or power) of the microwave.

The power levels of aerial microwaves is roughly 0.45mW/cm^2 if mobile transmission/reception equipment (phones (Radio), wireless networking devices, beacons, etc.) are in use close to a biological organism (more likely to be human.) This power level is too faint and yet can produce the 0.6...1 degree celsius heating of cellular tissue with the dielectric heating effect. This effect has been studied prior and has been dismissed as a minor one. However the effects of polarisation are less repeatable as any disturbance to a catalyst or a source chemical in a biochemical reaction can produce adverse effects at any stage of the biological reaction. The results will depend on the part of the body; e.g. the brain is most sensitive to extremely minor levels of chemical changes - any reaction disruption can alter numerous brain functions while the cause may remain untraceable due to complexity.

The third effect is derived from the fact that a 15Hz light strobe can induce epilepsy in a person with a epileptic condition. The effect is due to an attempt to interpret the frequency that results in an unanticipated state of the brain that creates a reset, observed as an epileptic fit. There are certain people with disorders who, upon noticing a zebra crossing or a certain pattern also suffer from one of the symptoms of epilepsy (usually resulting in temporary loss of consciousness of variable time frames.) This is also spurred by the brains attempt at interpreting input. While there is no concrete evidence presently that microwaves of frequencies beyond 400MHz uptil 1800 Mhz can be sensed by any part of the human body; the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. There is evidence from studies that electromagnetic radiation within a closed room [Faraday chamber] (conducted while studying clairvoyants, psychics or UFO abductees) have experienced the feeling of a "presence" of someone inside the room; The room however during such studies, was devoid of anyone but the person and furniture (non-metallic usually). Similar effects have been observed with ultrasound frequency ranges also. The reason for such "perception" of a presence is unknown.

Down the same stream of thought, the universe is filled with background microwave radiation termed "cosmic microwave radiation" which are being studied. The sources have been sought for during solar eclipses. It is hypothesised that about 500,000 years (solar time frame) after the Big Bang, a relatively cool black body of about 2.7K started emitting cosmic microwave radiation that is prevalent throughout the known universe. Bursts of Cosmic microwave radation can be observed during several astronomical phenomena.

It is quite possible that the attempt of ancient astrology to correlate times of births to long term behavioural patterns was born out of residual effects of such radiation influenced by planetary positions. The newly emergent infant brain would get acquainted with a certain level and alignment of the radiation while behaviour would be abnormal when these radiation levels and alignments change as planetary bodies change position. The planets would actually be playing shields to cosmic microwave radiation affecting level and alignment. However, modern astrological calendars never mention the cause of the behavioural changes but merely correlate planetary positions to birth times and later to life spans; and hence have been deemed scientifically incredible. Further Neutron star collision or another black body that presently (solar time frame) stopped radiating could have been producing far more radiation (and influence on life forms) in earlier times of human evolution. This is utter speculation at the moment, but the possibility can be explored so that it can be either proven to exist or otherwise.

However, it is undeniable that all living organisms, are immersed in heavy microwave radiation, which has only increased in the last few decades due to the increase in wireless communication and satellite usage. We are sitting inside a faraday chamber in both planetary and universal scales. It is high time that we conduct a scientific study to scale and understand the influence of such radiation on life, whatever the influence might be. Human curiosity has no bounds.