“Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.”
― C.S. Lewis
Since they assiduously don’t teach you this stuff in school, I’m having to go through Zorach Glaser’s collection of papers one by one and distill them down into knowledge that we can actually use.
THE DATA
In 1970, the Rand Corporation published “A Direct Mechanism for the Influence of Microwave Radiation on Neuroelectric Potential”, by R. J. MacGregor.
Here’s a link to it:
I boiled down the following summary from it:
Low-wavelength microwave radiation interacts directly with neuroelectric processes via intracranial electric fields of about 200 volt/meter, which is identical to that found in nerve cells.
Low-wavelength microwave radiation disturbs nervous function and behavior by inducing transmembrane potentials in nerve cells.
The electric field of 200 volts/meter, oscillating at 108 cycles per second induces a current of about 36 mw/cm2 in the intracellular fluid. If even half of this current penetrates a given nerve cell, a transmembrane potential of about 0~2 mv results, which influences neuroelectric behavior.
Higher potentials than this pertain to many well-documented adverse effects of microwave radiation. For a peak intensity of 1000 mw/cm2, the impact increases by a factor of ten.
The damage caused by low-intensity electromagnetic radiation is restricted to the microwave range. Some important type of molecule is disrupted through a microwave “resonance” mechanism.
THE ARTICLE
A Direct Mechanism for the Influence of Microwave Radiation on Neuroelectric Potential, by R. J. MacGregor, the Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, California, June 1970.
“Recent work has indicated that microwave radiation of 10 (?)/cm2 intensity should produce intracranial electric fields of about 200 volts/meter. This is a considerably stronger field than investigators had estimated, and raises the question as to whether there may be direct technical interaction of the field with neuroelectric processes. An electric field of 200 volt meter is far from negligable compared to some typical values for normal neuroelectric processes: for example, the longitudinal ionic current flow underlying graded potentials in passive dentrites should be typically of approximately the same magnitude…”
Low-wavelength microwave radiation interacts directly with neuroelectric processes via intracranial electric fields of about 200 volt/meter, which is identical to that found in nerve cells.
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least tw possibilities, however, warrant investigation: the· electric field may induce currents which ~~etrate nerv~ cell membrane ~nd thereby produce a neuroelectric response, or. the field may distu.'rb the normal neural generator currents.
This paper explores the idea that the electrical component of applied microwave radiation might induce transmembrane potentials-’ in nerve cells and thereby disturb nervous function and behavior~ We present estimates of the ~agnitude of transmembrane current and potential induced in a single nerve cell by a given extracellular electric field or current, and indicate bow appropriate parame~ers should influence the result• We will conclude that
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may very well contribute to the behavior~ distrubances associated with low-intensity microwave irradiationh"
Low-wavelength microwave radiation disturbs nervous function and behavior by inducing transmembrane potentials in nerve cells.
“It is easy to illustrate that the mqnitudes of the effects under consideration here are appreciable. Thus, an electric field of 200 volts/meter, oscillating at 108 cycles per second should induce a cur- rent of about 36 ma/cm2 in the intracellular fluid. If we auppoae
that about one-half of this current penetrates e given norve cell, a transmembrane potential of about 0~2 mv results. An oxtorruilly-inducod potential bias of this mapitude can indeed influence nouroelectric be- havior.”
The electric field of 200 volts/meter, oscillating at 108 cycles per second induces a current of about 36 ma/cm2 in the intracellular fluid. If even half of this current penetrates a given nerve cell, a transmembrane potential of about 0~2 mv results, which influences neuroelectric behavior.
"higher potcntiala tbma thia ahould pertain to many of the microwovo effects roportod in tho litoroture:
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most of investigations employ tia-voryins rcdiction vbooc poGk in- tensities may range up to aeverol hundrod of c,/m2• For a paa.k in- tensity of 1000 mw/cm2, our eoticote would be incrocaod b:, a fo,:tor of 10."
Higher potentials than this pertain to many well-documented adverse effects of microwave radiation. For a peak intensity of 1000 mw/cm2, the impact increases by a factor of ten.
“disturbances in behavior and neuroelectric events associated with lo, intenoity electromagnetic radiation appear to be restricted prmorily.to the microwave range. <3,5- 6) One explanation for this is that the function of some important type of molecule is disrupted through a microwave “resonance” mechanism. We have performed a rough analysis to see if the mechanism under discussion here might also predict that a noticeable response would occur only in the microwave range.”
The damage caused by low-intensity electromagnetic radiation are restricted to the microwave range. Some important type of molecule is disrupted through a microwave “resonance” mechanism.
Jeff Miller, Libertyville, IL, September 1, 2022
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