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I'd love to know the process by which they think a 30khz radio wave could induce a current in your nervous system that you would perceive as a low frequency sou
by lotsofmangos 12y ago
I'd love to know the process by which they think a 30khz radio wave could induce a current in your nervous system that you would perceive as a low frequency sound. The whole piece seems technically illiterate.
- lutorm 12y agoIt doesn't seem entirely implausible. Your body can act as an antenna, and nerves are sensitive to electrical currents, and the frequency range is right. It's a question of what the induced current would be and how sensitive the nerves are.
- lotsofmangos 12y agoThe top end of the range they are quoting for the radio waves (30khz) is above the top of human hearing (20hz - 20khz), and besides the wavelength is far too long (10000m), for any of your nerves to be acting as antennae. A centimeter, or millimeter scale wave might do something to a nerve, but a 10,000 meter one seems unlikely to.
- mbell 12y agoI find it highly unlikely too, but I think your math is a bit off. You don't need to excite a single nerve, but the entire system. I don't know anything about physiology, but I wouldn't be surprised to be told that there are 10km worth of electrically interconnected 'wires' in our body. If there are, then it wouldn't be outrageous to hypothesis that it could 'pick up' EM radiation at such frequencies. Whether it's enough to matter, I highly doubt, but it doesn't seem completely out of the ballpark.