Coherent MM-wave EMFs produce penetrating effects via time-varying magnetic fields: response to Foster & Balzano.

Abstract

Drs. Foster and Balzano published ref. [1] claiming that my paper on coherent millimeter (MM)-waves producing penetrating effects [2] was flawed. My response follows. Ref. [1] claims that “The magnetic permeability of tissue is very low... and many orders of magnitude lower than that of high permeable materials such as iron,” citing Schenck [3] as their sole support. Ref. [3] is a study of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and is focused on findings that magnetic susceptibility of materials, including iron, can lead to position errors of up to several millimeters inMR-guided surgery. It says nothing about the magnetic permeability of biological materials except, as will be shown immediately below, that the ability to do MRIs tells us that biologicalmaterials are highly permeable to magnetic fields. TheWikipedia article onMRI [4] is discussed here. MRI studies properties of atomic nuclei that have odd numbers of protons and have, therefore, nuclei with opposite spins which have, in the absence of an external magnetic field identical energy levels. In the presence of an external magnetic field, the difference in energy levels of the two spins increase in proportion to the strength of external magnetic field. At a specific magnetic field strength, electromagnetic fields (EMFs) at a specific frequency absorb photons having the same energy as the difference of energy of the spin states. Ref. [4] states: “MRI requires a magnetic field that is both strong and uniform to a few parts per million across the scan volume.” This is because an EMF frequency that resonates with type of nucleus at a specific magneticfieldwill no longer resonatewith a slightly higher or lower magnetic field. Therefore magnetic field penetration must be extremely high to avoid destroying any ability to doMRI imaging in different depths of tissues. Our ability to dowhole body or whole brainMRIsmake this conclusion especially clear. It can be seen from this that the Foster/Balzano claim that “tissue magnetic permeability is very low” is complete nonsense. I stated in ref. [2] that “Electronically generated EMFs are coherent, producing much higher electrical and magnetic forces than do natural incoherent EMFs.” Foster/ Balzano respond that “coherence properties of ‘electronically generated’ microwave and MM-wave fields vary widely. The coherence of awave is defined as correlation in phase at different points in time or space as the wave propagates through a medium [5], and is not an all or none property.” There are two problems with their description of ref. [5]. The first is that Pinton et al. [5] studied effects of ultrasound (not EMFs) in tissues. Therefore, this should have been disclosed in ref. [1] as possibly limiting relevance to EMFs. Most importantly [5], study of ultrasound with reverberation clutter, with the main focus on reverberations. Reverberation greatly lowers the coherence of the ultrasound (and also of EMFs) so the variation of coherence seen in ref. [5] at different points in space is due to variation of reverberations and says nothing about coherence variation of electronically generated EMFs or of newly generated ultrasound. So here again, Drs. Foster/ Balzano make a false conclusion based on false assessments of their cited study – the study only predicts coherence variation produced by reverberation. Reverberation is important because of the use of reverberation exposure chambers in many EMF studies touted by industry linked scientists including Foster and Moulder. Reverberation in those chambers disrupts the coherence of the EMFs and therefore, greatly lowers any effects seen. Regarding the two studies on effects on neuronal firing, I quoted one of them [6] in ref. [2] as follows. Pikov et al. [6] in their abstract state that: “The applied levels of MMW power are three orders of magnitude below the existing safe limit for human exposure of 1 mW/cm. *Corresponding author: Martin L. Pall, Professor Emeritus, Biochemistry and Basic Medical Sciences, Washington State University, 638 NE 41 Ave., Portland, OR 97232-3312, USA, E-mail: martin_pall@wsu.edu. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-87848287 Rev Environ Health 2021; aop