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Last Diwali dinner, my cousin, an anesthesiologist and a smart guy, got into it with me about EMF.
"The body generates massive electrical fields" he said.
"If external EMF was dangerous, we'd have evolved to be more robust"
Everyone at the table nodded. Game over. The doctor spoke.
I didn't say anything at dinner.
But later, in the kitchen, I said one thing to him.
"Your oscilloscope at work. The one that reads heart signals at millivolts. Would it work if I held a magnet next to it?"
He paused.
"That's a precision instrument."
"Yeah. It is."
The reason a $40,000 oscilloscope is sensitive to interference isn't DESPITE generating precise signals.
It's BECAUSE of it.
Precision instruments are the MOST vulnerable to noise. That's the entire field of electrical engineering.
Your mitochondria operate at 30 million volts per meter across a 7-nanometer membrane. They spin a motor at 21,000 RPM that generates a magnetic field matching the Earth's.
That's not a robust system.
That's the most precise instrument ever built.
And we’re bathing it in electromagnetic noise millions to trillions of times above natural background.
He didn't argue. He just poured another drink.
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