Subject: October '98, Notepad of Dr. Cyril Smith...... Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 144950 -0600 (CST) From: "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org> To: emfguru <rbeavers@llion.org> -------------------------------------------------- Hi everybody: A very interesting new approach to the use of our EMF-L net..... Dr. Smith has forwarded his notes as he wrote them (about our traffic) over the past month or so..... Researchers should find much of interest here. Please respond directly to Dr. Smith. The goal is to provide useful feedback, but not to clutter the net with many message that are not of general interest.... (Or ... if you have general interest feedback, that's O.K., too.) Also, there is a challenge for our lawyers buried down there, too. Just pretend that you are "looking over his shoulder" as he writes.... Cheerio..... Roy Beavers (EMFguru) rbeavers@llion.org..............http://www.feb.se/EMF-L/EMF-L.html ................................It is better to light a single candle ... than to curse the darkness............................................... DO YOU KNOW OF OTHER PEOPLE WHO SHOULD BE ON THIS LIST????? ________________________________________________________________________ ......October '98......Notepad of Dr. Cyril Smith........... ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ 1. Family history of allergies? 2. Can the family doctor recognise and treat environmental illness. 3. Can you afford the loss of a forced sale if in a year or more electrical sen sitivity strikes someone? 4. Is the family into eating "junk" food? 5. Has the house recently had its timbers, termites, roaches treated? Does it contain formaldehyde or volatile emitting materials/fabrics? 6. Levels of emf? The stronger the fields, the shorter the likely onset time for whatever effects are going to happen. 7. Is there any ionizing radiation or radon exposure? In the house or occupationally? 8. Roy Beavers Oct 6: There are Russian microwave therapy units using millimetre wavelength radiation. I was told in Kiev that all the oxygen lines around 60 GHz are therapeutic. 9. Roy Beavers Oct 12: There are many chemicals out on a temporary license. Someone reporting to a Dallas Symposium found that the commercial grade solvents and dispersants contained impurities more toxic than the toxic chemical being used. The chemicals and petrochemicals testing needs to be done for synergistic effects with emfs. There is a fundamental duality between frequency and chemical structure, otherwise chemical analysis by spectroscopy would be impossible. It is an effect of coherence that there can be many frequencies and velocities of travel in a system where the constant parameter is the coherence length. Thus, related effects can appear in many parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. 10. Edward Maxey Oct 12: Thank you for your comment. Yes! Roy did forward it to me. The case you reported is very interesting. The frequency 8Hz will stimulate the hippocampus. The 30 gamma = 30 nT = 0.3 milligauss depending which units you choose to work in. The gamma was used for things like geophysical magnetic field fluctuations which can be 100's of gamma or more in storms. The Tesla (the SI unit) = 10,000 gauss which is the old cgs unit. In the cgs system the unit of potential comes out at 300 V and the unit of current at 10 A, while the equations have the velocity of light scattered around them and the 4 pi in linear and not inspherical equations. People used to have to design electrical machines in cgs electrical units and then work mechanically in inches!. The same effects being produced by 1800 nT means (a) that the 30 nT contour would be further away, (b) there is probably a quantum threshold, i.e. anything above this threshold produces an effect, no proportionality, just an effect, (c) that the magnetic (B) field may not be the relevant biological parameter so, its value is of no consequence. As an example: A single turn coil of radius r, and carrying a current i will give at its cent re: The magnetic field, or magnetisation of H = i / 2r [amp/metre]. The magnetic flux density B = µ i / 2r [webers/sq.metre or Tesla], where µ is the permeability [Henry/metre], both H and B are perpendicular to the direction of the current i. In cgs units these two equations are the same (gauss) in free space because µ = 1. The magnetic vector potential A = µ i / 2 where A is in the direction of the current i. If r is made very large, B tends to zero but, A remains unchanged. If the living system is able to respond to A through a quantum mechanism then, this is a simple example of how a response could happen at zero magnetic field or flux density. The rationale behind my use of 30 nT is as follows. In a letter: Comments on the Paper - "Environmental Power-Frequency Magnetic Fields and Suicide", Health Physics 43(3): 439-441 (1982), we analysed the raw data supplied to us by Dr. F.S. Perry which was the subject of the above paper by Perry FS, Reichmanis M, Marino AA, Becker RO, in Health Physics 41: 267-277 (1981). A cumulative probability plot extrapolated back to unity (i.e. any effect of the fields equals all other effects) in the region of 30 nT (300 microgauss). I interpreted this to mean that over a persons lifetime of 70 years of exposure, any effects of the 30 nT would be the same as for all oÜ¥e Beavers: 1. Bill Curry Sept 29: Heat stress is one aspect of autonomic control system stress. The objective findings of heat stress proteins at 500 nT is a potentially useful indicator. There is no good battery of tests for determining the status of the autonomic nervous system which seems to be the first to become involved in environmental illness. In general, any biological cell can both emit an electrical signal in response to a chemical stimulus and secrete a chemical in response to an electrical stimulus. In general, cells have specialised towards one or the other. 2. Roy Beavers Sept 29: Regarding aircraft, there will not only be the various ground and airbourne radars and telecommunications equipment but, also the petrochemical stress from fuel particularly if living near a take-off flight-path. The chemical stress may trigger an electrical hypersensitivity. This leads to a general comment applicable to much of this correspondence and particularly a request to any legal eagles logged-in. How does one deal in law with a synergistic tort which arises as a consequence of two independent actions neither of which is harmful on its own? As an example, persons with a certain genetic inheritance have a very high risk of bladder cancer from chemical exposure if they work in the rubber industry. This sort of effect somehow has to squared with 'equal opportunities'. Persons exposed to aerial crop sprays are likely to become electrically hypersensitive soon afterwards. Exposure to sulphur dioxide can can facilitate asthma triggering agents. Finding a way of coping in law with 'synergism' seems to me the crucial problem in respect of 'proving' electromagnetically induced illness. All parties contaminating the environment in any way may with some degree of truth claim, "It's not our fault!". 3. There are a number of E.S. patient support groups around the world. One such in England which would be pleased to make contacts with other groups and ES sufferers is: CIRCUIT, P.O. Box 1UZ, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England. The person who runs this is so electrically sensitive that there is no phone, computer or even electricity supply in the house so please write, an SAE would be appreciated. 4. Wolfgang Scherer Sept 29: The former Soviet Block based their much lower safety levels on experiments such as on animal behaviour. However, as it was then remarked to me during a past visit, "It is as difficult for us to get any action from our local party committees to reduce radiation levels as it is for you in the West to get it from commercial interests. Here, nobody is going to sue the Kremlin!" 5. Alasdair Philips Sept 30: Yes! There are electrically sensitive patients around whose degree of sensitivity makes them completely incompatible with electrical technology and chemically sensitive patients who are completely incompatible with chemical pollution. Society has the challenge of making life tolerable for them. Society shows no signs of being willing or able to forgo its technology. Whatever cut-off level is arbitrarily chosen, there will stil l be some persons coming outside this. What can be done for them? 6. Roy Beavers Oct 3:You quote: " Years of research have failed to demo nstrate that EMFs cause cancer in laboratory animals." This is consistent with the laboratory animals being too healthy in respect of nutritional and environmental chemicals in comparison to the average human population if a synergistic chemical/electrical effect is operative in the causation/development of cancers. 7. Scott Noelle Oct 4: Among the factors I listed in "Electromagnetic Man" (St. Martins Press, New York, 1989, p.163) to be considered in respect of considering living close to a source of emf were: three causes. As a rule-of-thumb, this seems to scale in a linear manner between exposure time and field. Data by David Savitz if plotted cumulatively extrapolates back similarly to the region of 30 nT. Thus, I assumed that if a patient is not hyperesensitive, a field of 30 nT should not produce any effect within a life-time. Hence, I used this order of magnetic field at ELF when I started to test patients for hypersensitivity. I was looking for abnormal responses. Subsequently, having realised that they are sensitive to the vector potential component of the magnetic field, I used a toroid which gives out negligible magnetic flux density (gauss) but, is just as effective at triggering reactions. Nowadays, the patients that I see are those that no one else wants to deal with and are too sensitive even for this testing so, I have to use yet another technique. The mechanism whereby a healthy person might be affected by an alternating emf is one of adaptation. With chronic exposure this might become indistinguishable from a disease state. One further query that I cannot now locate was concerned with the effects of the geomagnetic field. This is very non-uniform in any building with a steel frame construction and steel furnishings or steel hot-water radiators. Plants can use the small changes in geomagnetic field an hour or so before local sunrise to prepare for photosynthesis when daylight reaches ground level. This effect is paralysed if the plant isplaced near a steel constructional girder in a building. The presence of microwave radiation which is modulated at a frequency which satisfies the proton magnetic resonance conditions (ppm) in the local geomagnetic field is a very effective way of growing microwave cataracts on bovine eye lenses 'in vitro' [cf. Smith et al. in: Modern Bioelectricity AA Marino (ed.) pp 75-104, New York: Dekker 1988]. Birds and animals use the geomagnetic field for migrational navigation [see for example: Wolfgang Wiltschko and Roswitha Wiltschko, "Magnetic Orientation in Birds", The Journal of Experimental Biology 199: 29-38 (1996)]. [.....Dr. Smith, this is the end of what my software would translate. There is something more below, but I cannot read it.......guru......] 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