Subject:  Bond breaking (fwd)
Date:     Wed, 15 Jul 1998 065449 -0500 (CDT)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To:       emfguru@hotmail.com
--------------------------------------------------


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 21:52:56 -0500
From: Edward Maxey 
To: "Roy L. Beavers" 
Subject: Bond breaking

Hello Roy,

Ellen Sugarman's excellent book (WARNING THE ELECTRICITY AROUND 
YOU MAY BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH) on page 78 contains:
"Certain kinds of ionizing radiation - gamma rays, nuclear 
radiation, and x-rays, all of which can get inside cells and 
break chemical bonds ... are known to cause cancer."  Such 
language is common in the scientific literature.  It conveys 
the idea that carcinogens are agents which break something.

Perhaps it would be useful to consider the matter of breaking
chemical bonds inside cells.  It goes on constantly, quite 
normally, as the body goes about the business of cellular 
reproduction.  Mitosis is at the heart of this process in all 
cellular organisms.  

The dictionary in this computer says:
"mitosis   noun. Biology
             1. The sequential differentiation and segregation
                 of replicated chromosomes in a cell nucleus that
                 precedes complete cell division.
             2. The sequence of processes by which a cell 
                 divides to form two daughter cells having the
                 normal number of chromosomes."

DNA molecular bonds are constantly being torn apart and reformed
during the course of cellular reproduction in the absence of
ionizing radiation.  This normal process belies the physicist's 
argument, that all carcinogens require energy sufficient to break
molecular bonds, since life itself demands the continuous breaking
and regeneration of such bonds.

We must, of course, acknowledge that ionizing radiation (and other
carcinogens) do distort cellular duplication enough to cause cancer.  
But this in no way proves that lessor energies are unable to produce
similar distortions.

What we really need to know is how much and what kinds of energy it 
takes to corrupt the delicate process by which chromosomal DNA is 
replicated in the magic of cellular renewal.  

Good wishes,
Ed



Archive provided courtesy of WaveGuide, http://www.wave-guide.org
Reprinted with permission of Roy Beavers, http://www.feb.se/EMF-L/EMF-L.html