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Scientifically: There are people from disparate countries who believe that they suffer from a condition called `EM hypersensitivity`, and are convinced they mus
by elif 10y ago
Scientifically: There are people from disparate countries who believe that they suffer from a condition called `EM hypersensitivity`, and are convinced they must live in remote areas away from radios to avoid sickness or headaches. In the handful of published studies that exist, evidence points to an inability of these people to distinguish between exposure and non-exposure in a laboratory setting.
Anecdotally: I can definitely "feel" large AC transmission lines. They do have an audible buzz, however the "feeling" sensation seems distinct to me. My experience is from hiking the Appalachian Trail, which spends days outside of cell phone range, and then crosses regional transmission lines periodically.
So if that observation is not pure illusion or auditory synesthesia (perhaps a fully deaf person can assist here?), it would seem to follow that there is a mechanism to sense EM radiation, and it is simply a matter of whether the perceptive threshold has been met, which would obviously vary from person to person and even from instant to instant.
- speeder 10y agoI remembered now of a church pastor I know, that was an antenna. The story: this pastor, and only this pastor, would make wireless microphones in certain frequencies act up. Eventually the audio team found out that somehow this particular pastor worked as an antenna for a particular frequency, matching a nearby radio transmitter, that due to its enormous size would overpower the microphone transmission and corrupt the data.
- white-flame 10y agoOne of my friends has a magnetic butt. Any time he carries a mag strip card in his back pocket, it no longer works. I also knew somebody who had to use wind-up pocket watches, because quartz wristwatches would always skew when he wore them, but would keep time fine when removed. Weird stuff. Who knows.
- stillworks 10y agoAnd how about the wind-up watches ? Did they not skew :-)
- mkesper 10y agoEverybody is an antenna. Probably his size was very "well tuned" to that radio transmitter.
- imglorp 10y agoOh you can definitely feel effects from AC transmission lines. Search for pictures of florescent tubes lighting nearby, without being connected to them. There's plenty of ions getting shoved around to stand your hair up a little if nothing else. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitive_coupling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitive_coupling