Subject: EMF & Plant Genetics (Evans)..
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 113209 -0600 (CST)
From: "Roy L. Beavers"
To: emfguru
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.......This message forwards part of an exchange which has taken place
off-line EMF-L..... One reason I am bringing it online is that I think
it should be included in the archives....
Dr. John Evans has "spoken" to this issue before -- but each time, he
seems to become more eloquent and persuasive..... Thanks John!!!
Cheerio.....
Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
roy@emfguru.com
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Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 11:58:14 -0500
From: John and Stella Evans
To: "Jerry D. Hodo"
Cc: "Roy L. Beavers"
Subject: EMF & Plant Genetics
Dear Jerry,
Recently, you wrote to EMFguru, "I need info related to studies of EMF
effects on plant growth." Roy Beavers asked me to respond.
Please note: I am not an expert, but I believe I can point you in a
direction that may be useful to you. For some years I have been interested
in health effects of the electromagnetic spectrum. And of course, visible
light is part of the overall spectrum. You may find some very interesting
reading in the material mentioned below, books which are written by John N.
Ott. Not only does he talk about experiments he followed using various
kinds of light, but he indicates that he also did some work in other
frequencies.
The books were written some years ago, but I believe the concepts presented
are still most valid. He talks about the effects of EMFs on plants,
animals, and humans.
1. MY IVORY CELLAR: The Story of Time-Lapse Photography, Twentieth Century
Press, Chicago, 1958 -- Library of Congress catalog number: 58-59587.
2. HEALTH AND LIGHT, Ariel Press, Alpharetta, GA, 1973 and 1976 -- cat no:
72-85334.
3. LIGHT, RADIATION, AND YOU, Devin-Adair, Old Greenwich, CT, 1982 -- cat
no: 81-69951.
I believe that the Devin-Adair Company, Old Greenwich, Connecticut, are
still producing all three of the above.
You may find these books in your local or university library. If not, I
believe you might want to buy them. Try one of the on-line booksellers
such as . You should find enough information in these
books to keep you experimenting for a long while. Do let us know on EMF-L
what your results are. Note: do be aware what kinds and colors of lighting
you use when you are preparing your experiments. The type of light used
could have a marked bearing on your results.
John Ott, a bank employee turned lime-lapse photographer, found that
various colors of light he used in his experiments caused all kinds of
anomalies in the plants and animals under study. His standard of ordinary
light was the natural spectrum as emitted by the sun. He has shown in
actual experiments with school children that by replacing ordinary
fluorescent lights with full-spectrum, cathode shielded ones, that the
behavior and attention span of the children vastly improved. He feels that
living organisms NEED near ultraviolet light, and the full-spectrum
fluorescent include that part of the spectrum. In some lighting fixtures
he even installs a small "black light" tubes to make sure there is enough
of the near UV light present.
When it was fashionable to raise chinchillas for fur, expecting a big
return on one's investment, my brother, George, got caught up in the craze.
With the financial help of a group of entrepreneurial doctors, he built a
special shed for the animals, lighting it with ordinary fluorescent lights.
After moving the animals into the new quarters, almost no new females were
born. The pups were almost all male. The business went down the drain!
John Ott tells of similar experiences with chinchilla breeders across the
continent, until they started to use full-spectrum lights. It is most
interesting to read of the amazing things that happen to plants and animals
in experiments where Ott uses different solid colors of light.
By the way, here is another story that involves chinchillas (and I feel it
has something to do with electromagnetic energy in general). When my
brother first started breeding the animals, he found it very difficult to
predict accurately just when new pups were expected. The chinchillas are
so furry it is impossible to follow the pregnancy just by observing the
changing size of the expectant mother. The best way, he found, was to keep
weighing them, and he could predict within a few days when the pups should
arrive.
One of the reasons for knowing just when the birth is to happen is so that
one can be present and take the little ones away from the mother and put
them in a "safe haven" in her cage where the mother can see them, smell
them, etc. The reason for this is that some animals bred in captivity tend
to kill their own offspring. However, after a brief "getting acquainted"
time takes place with the pups in a safe place, the mother readily accepts
the new little ones and starts nursing them. This means several days of
sitting up with the expectant mother, 24 hours a day, until the pups
arrive. (Breeding stock is so expensive that one does not want to lose any
potential new stock.)
When George told me about this, I asked him whether he kept a log of
arrival times. Yes, he said. We went back over his log and found that in
every case the births took place during what John Alden Knight, in his
"Solunar Tables," calls an "influence period." Knight was interested in
the effects of the pull of the sun and the moon in relation to tidal
changes, and also as to how those two heavenly bodies affect living
creatures. I used to consult his Solunar Tables for the best fishing and
hunting times, as interpolated for the area where we lived at that time. I
found the tables very accurate in predicting feeding and movement times of
various species. [ I now have a program on my computer called "LunaTick: A
Fish and Game Activity Forecaster," which does the forecasting for me. It
is available from AMTECH Inc, 141 Sam Smith Circle, Crawfordville, FL
32327 -- Phone: 904-421-4196; E-mail: amtech@tallahassee.net.]
When George, my brother, started using the Solunar Tables, he was able to
use the weighing technique along with the tables to predict the actual
birth times within an hour or two. That way, he was able to sleep during
the "no activity" periods and sit up only through the "activity periods."
It worked, every time. If anyone doubts how powerful the pull of the sun
and moon is, they need only live near the Bay of Fundy as we used to. One
can witness the vertical rise and fall of the tide by as much as a
three-storey building in six hours. Talk about a natural electromagnetic
force ! ! !
And speaking of natural electromagnetic forces, all living creatures on
this earth have, over many millennia, become acclimatized to the natural
background radiation. It is only in the last 100 years that we have
started in earnest to foul that all up. You will find that much of Ott's
experiments were done on plants, not animals; but you will see that all
living organisms are affected by EMR and EMFs. No wonder people are
getting sick in larger and larger numbers. Hopefully, with the help of
those who see the problems, we'll be able to survive as a species.
It is great that we get so many interesting ideas, concepts, etc., coming
up on EMFguru's list. Here is some more info: A 46-minute color-and-sound
film with time-lapse sequences showing the biological effects of light and
low level radiation on plants and laboratory animals, is available from
INTERNATIONAL FILM BUREAU INC (312) 427-4545
332 S Michigan Ave, Chicago IL 60604. The film
also includes time-lapse pictures of hyperactive school children calming
down under the new full-spectrum, radiation-shielded fluorescent lighting.
Perhaps you could get a video of the above film from your local or
university library, on loan. It is well worth seeing, especially for you,
the parts about plant growth.
Good luck,
John D. Evans
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