Subject: SARs, Strength of EMF metric "measurement" Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 155531 -0600 (CST) From: "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org> To: emfguru <rbeavers@llion.org> -------------------------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 22:08:58 +0100 From: "D. S. Cvijovic"To: rbeavers@llion.org Subject: SARs I was very happy to read all the responses to my contemplation about metrics... Thank you! There is something I would like to make more clear. I am going to use Bill's words as a question: Bill said: "...I don't understand how you can expect there to be effects of EM radiation upon living cells without there being absorption of energy. Even resonance phenomena require some absorption of energy - even though it may be very small. I think the SAR is a significant metric, even when you are considering non-thermal and non-ionizing interactions..." My answer: Well, let's compare our cells with the butterflies that are told to be reacting to extremely weak scent of their mates... Some researchers think the butterflies are able to detect only one molecule of such scent!!! So, when a butterfly detects (gets) that one molecule, it starts certain (biologically preprogrammed) reaction, which doesn't differ much if he gets three, or hundred molecules!!!! And our cells are a kind of organisms for themselves, so they also have a kind of "behavior", and biologically preprogrammed patterns of reactions. It could be (just - could be!!!) that a very small energy (or a very small momentum, either, as Marjorie said), might trigger certain (massive) cell reactions... So, it could be even "worse" than Marjorie proposed... My point here is that we have to stop seeing living matter as a (simple) physico-chemical machine. Drasko 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