cogreslab said:I posted: "Also the issue of whether ELF fields can penetrate the body: tbis is now generally also accepted",
Hans replied: "Not electrical fields. You know, the laws of physics have not changed lately, so you are either misunderstanding, misrepresenting, or lying".
It is very important to get this straightened out, Hans. As I understand it, conceding myself not to be a physicist, an ELF alternating current-carrying wire will be attended by electric and magnetic fields detectable outside its physical material. (Let us for now leave out the issue of what happens when the wire is "live" but not supplying a current). The magnetic fields will induce electric fields in its vicinity, and since the human body is transparent to magnetic fields there will be currents induced inside the body, which themselves give rise to electric fields. In my posts I have abbreviated this effect to saying simply that RF/MW and ELF electric fields can penetrate the body. One way or another there can exist electric fields inside the body as a result of a nearby current carrying wire.
The well recognised concept of SAR reflects the level of internal electric fields engendered as per above by some external source, multiplied by the conductivity of the tissue, and then divided by the permittivity of the tissue.
I do not think that is wrong, nor that I am lying.
Poll: Cogreslab draws 20,000 fans?JPK said:.... perhaps a poll is in order to see what the readers of this thread think of cogreslab theories.
cogreslab said:Originally posted by cogreslab
Prag responded: Pseudoscientific nonsense, as usual. Polarization of what? And how can the state of polarization have anything to do with current density? How can that "implicate the electric component"? Don't you ever learn that you can't fool people on here with this kind of rubbish?
Praggers, why do not you take a look at Kato's 1993 paper in Bioelectromagnetics 14, 97-106 instead making of these wild and unsupported accusations, which serve only to impress those who foolishly trust you.?
Rolfe said:Poll: Cogreslab draws 20,000 fans?
Not a lot of prizes for guessing who cast the two pro-Roger votes!
Rolfe.
cogreslab said:"You said it yourself. The MAGNETIC fields will induce electric currents. So it is the MAGNETIC component that comprises the most significant external component in exposure. Which is what the NRPB and everyone else is saying and which you have been denying".
Prag: you have to distinguish between the physical means by which the two components of the wave arise inside the body (which is what you have been concerned with, and where I have not denied the physics of induction) and which of these two components are affecting life processes. Electric fields can be induced or arise from contact currents or perhaps even from some other means, and imho it is the electric component which is the bioactive parameter, not the magnetic.
Do you yet see the difference between what I am saying and what you allege I am saying?
cogreslab said:I posted: "Also the issue of whether ELF fields can penetrate the body: tbis is now generally also accepted",
Hans replied: "Not electrical fields. You know, the laws of physics have not changed lately, so you are either misunderstanding, misrepresenting, or lying".
It is very important to get this straightened out, Hans. As I understand it, conceding myself not to be a physicist, an ELF alternating current-carrying wire will be attended by electric and magnetic fields detectable outside its physical material. (Let us for now leave out the issue of what happens when the wire is "live" but not supplying a current).
Why do we need to leave out the central point in your argumentation? Have you realized that it is moot? Well, OK, fine!.
The magnetic fields will induce electric fields in its vicinity, and since the human body is transparent to magnetic fields there will be currents induced inside the body,
Yes, yes. As we have been saying all along.
which themselves give rise to electric fields.
That is not penetrating. The fields wil lstil lbe poutside the body.
In my posts I have abbreviated this effect to saying simply that RF/MW and ELF electric fields can penetrate the body. One way or another there can exist electric fields inside the body as a result of a nearby current carrying wire.
NO, there cannot.
The well recognised concept of SAR reflects the level of internal electric fields engendered as per above by some external source, multiplied by the conductivity of the tissue, and then divided by the permittivity of the tissue.
Whaaat? The only interpretation I can find of that sentence is incorrect. And, for the umpteenth time: THERE ARE NO INTERNAL ELECTRICAL FIELDS! If you cannot understand it, try to learn it by heart.
I do not think that is wrong, nor that I am lying.
It is wrong, but I'm willing to assume that you are just terribly ignorant, and thus not lying, which implies intent.
How is it support of your argument? You argue that serious dangers are being overlooked (or deliberately ignored) because electric fields are not taken into account. How does the abovementioned study support that?cogreslab said:My previous post reminded me that there was a new study reported at the WHO Istanbul conference (Saito, Kabuto et al., from Japan's National Research Institute for child health and development).
An association between electric appliances such as hair dryers and TV watching and childhood leukaemia was found in this all-Japan 1439 patient study. The authors concluded:
"A significant association was found between childhood leukaemia and the use of some electric appliances during the conception of the child and the use by the child. However, apparent dose-response relationship was not found."
As usual they used EMDEX probes, so I doubt whther they captured the electric component, and this may be why they found no dose response.
Anyway, this is further strong support for my argument.
cogreslab said:*snip*
Prag: you have to distinguish between the physical means by which the two components of the wave arise inside the body
We are not talking about waves. We are talking about ELF. AN ELF wave is several thousand kilometers long, it does not arise inside a human body.
(which is what you have been concerned with, and where I have not denied the physics of induction) and which of these two components are affecting life processes. Electric fields can be induced or arise from contact currents or perhaps even from some other means, and imho it is the electric component which is the bioactive parameter, not the magnetic.
Nonsense and smoke-screening. NOBODY (and that includes you) has been talking about contact current so far, and it is entirely IRRELEVANT for the discussion at hand. Electric fields are not induced. Electric currents are induced.
Do you yet see the difference between what I am saying and what you allege I am saying?
What we allege you are saying is that you don't know the first thing about the subject you are trying to be authoritative about. You have just confirmed this, yet again.
*snip*
Dr Tracy Lightfoot from York Univ. a geneticist confirmed that no human leukaemia virus has ever been found.
Since DNA repair is carried out by enzymes it was interesting to learn of several studies where the effect of non-thermal EMF has been to inhibit enzyme activity.
cogreslab said:First let me apologise for accidentally using the word permittivity when of course Prag is quite right to correct me : it is the physical density which is the divisor in SAR calculations. I expect Bouncer will now crow about this ad nauseam (sic).
Density? Density as in grams/cubic centimetre? What density? What are you talking about?
However the point I was trying to make (and continue to make) is that the electric fields either induced or produced via contact currents are what causes the biological damage at less than thermal levels, and not the internal magnetic component, which is largely the same inside the body as outside.
No, that is not the point you have been trying to make. The point you have been trying to make has all along been that EXPOSURE to electrical FIELDS caused damage. No talk about contact current, no talk about induction. You are just trying to smoke-screen the fact that your previous argumentation has been atomized.
Induced currents and their associated electric fields are part of that interior environment.
Yes they are (albeit without fields, which cannot exist in a conductive medium), but that is the thing you have been arguing against.
But the ambient electric fields also have an impact, (and with contact currents especially if the skin is not dry, as it often is when e.g. touching a watertap or bathing).
External electrical fields may cause currents to flow in the body, quite correct, Roger. And this is what I asked you about very clearly a couple of dozen pages back in this thread: Is that the mechanism you are postulating to be the cause of damage? You answered "No, I do not think that is the only mechanism" (if you deny this, I shall take the trouble to find the post and cite it). Now, when all your other avenues have been closed to you, you suddenly come full circle and dig up that old thing again.
However, it is easy to show that these currents are very small compared to those arising from the electromagnetic field, which is probably the reason serious reserchers have chosen to ignore them.
No, it does not matter if the skin is moist or not. The impedance of the coupling from electric fields is so high, that the range of skin resistance (~100-10,000 ohms) is unimportant.
A good rule of thumb I beleive is that the internal electric field (on which SAR is based) is around one third of the ambient external field.
There is no internal field (the reason I sound like a broken record here is because you insist on repeating this error). So it is not a good rume of thumb, it is a good measure of your total lack of understanding.
The argument that induced fields are many orders of magnitude less is not tenable in the world of the cell membrane and its exquisite sensitivity to ion movement.
Ehhh? And this follows from, what??
Because there is no fixed relatiion between the electric and magnetic components at ELF frequencies it is therefore important to take into consideration the ambient electric field and not just the magnetic component when investigating internal electric fields derived from the exterior.
Good, Roger! You are getting close to the record of our long-absent friend Franko. You are now contradicting yourself within the same post (Franko could do it in 4 words, so you have a bit to go yet). Just a little above of here, you attributed the effect to induction from the magnetic field. Now, you are back to the independent field stuff, which we scredded long ago. We can go over it again, but,.... are you SURE you wanna do that?
However, what has happened is that there have been umpteen epi studies of the ELF magnetic field either measured or historically calculated, or using wire codes, but with no accompanying agreed mechanism(s) to strengthen the argument for causality, whereas there are plenty of mechanisms derived from electric field effects, but no decent epi studies to derive causality.
And these plentiful mechanisms are? (no you have not mentioned one plausible one yet).
Given the persistent strength (16 out of 18 studies were positive)of an association between e.g. childhood leukaemia and exposure to ELF EM fields, it must surely be logical to develop good quality measured E-field epi studies. That way we could have both the epi evidecne and the mechanism(s) in support.
ELF EM fields? That would be including the magnetic field, right??
My contention is that the utilities have deliberately avoided doing this, by e.g. offering EPRI designed EMDEX instruments which lack E-field probes, by avoiding electric field studies in the laboratory, and as John Swanson has just demonstrated, by pointing the argument towards a search for a magnetic field metric.
Yes, Roger. It has sort of occurred to us that this is your contention. Unfortunately, after hundreds of posts, you have still failed to give a plausible explanation for it.8/b]
My 1996 (peer review published) pilot study reporting nigh five fold OR association between childhood cancer and ELF electric field exposure upset the applecart, and led to curiously vigorous denials, witness the entire paragraph devoted to it in a recent NRPB document.
Do you want us to go over your 1996 study and its many flaws again? Are you SURE you wanna do that??
One might be tempted say that the UKCCCR study measured ELF electric fields but found nothing. *snipped, long paste-in of Rogers old tirade, of allegations and conclusins based on his unfounded theory * Anyone who likes to go over that again can read the first dozen or two pages in this threadstowards that figure.
Against that *snipped, long paste-in of Rogers lame and illogical defense of his immoral and unethical "Coghill Challenge" *
I expect this issue will be dealt with extensively elsewhere, soon.
When smoking was first identified with increased cancer risk there were no mechanisms in place at that time either: we have good epi data showing elevated cancer incidence at 0.4uT so why delay in reducing the thresholds to biological demonstrable limits until there is a consensus over mechanisms?
Back to the magnetic field (uT is a measure of magnetism). Do you know what you are talking about at all, or are you just trashing around blindly?
The body is a conductive medium. Inside a conductive medium there are no elctric fields because all parts of the conductive medium is at aproximately the same potential. Faraday cage effect. This is basic physics, and I am not obliged to rehash basic physics for you. As a scientist (and you DO consider yourself a scientist, don't you?) you are under obligation to aquire basic knowledge of the field you work in.cogreslab said:Hans said:
"THERE ARE NO INTERNAL ELECTRICAL FIELDS! If you cannot understand it, try to learn it by heart".
Well, what is your evidence for the absence of internal electric fields as a result of external E-field exposure at ELF frequencies, and how do you explain the results described in my last post?
What results? Anyhow, it is not my duty to disprove your theory, it is your duty to prove it. And, so far, you have failed.
If you cannot, perhaps Prag or even Bouncer might?
As I pointed out a while ago, Roger has now put out so much nonsense that he is bound to begin contradicting himself.Prester John said:cogreslab said:
As has already been pointed out the Virus HTLV is associated with leukeamia.
http://virology-online.com/viruses/HTLV.htm
cogreslab said:
But cogreslab you don't think the cancer is caused by DNA damage. Reversaposition!!!!