Switzerland halts rollout of 5G over health concerns

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[–]magnora7 8 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

The thing I don't like about 5G is how many more antenna stations are needed, which means your physical proximity to one is much more likely to be close. Power absorbed drops with the inverse square of distance, if you half the distance it quadruples the power that hits your body.

And I've been reading lately that also because of the large number of antennas it can be used to generate physical location maps that can see through walls, even if you don't have a phone or anything! It can use beam-forming for the 5G electromagnetic waves, and scan a 3D area for solidity in real-time, so it can see dense materials vs non-dense materials, and locate movement as well. And it can do that even if you have no electronics on you at all. Like some kind of giant CT scan.

That's a level of invasiveness I'm not comfortable with.

And that's not even mentioning the potential health consequences of adding even more frequencies to the mix. If any of the frequencies have resonance with any molecular bond in the human body, it will cause non-ionizing heating, aka vibration. Just like when you microwave food. The only question is how much is absorbed, and does the absorption outpace the rate at which the heat can dissipate. If the answer is no, then over a long enough time, it can cause burns. This is why people aren't allowed to spend more than 6 hours a day in an MRI machine. There was once a case of a sedated patient having his exposed legs crossed and it created a closed circuit and the inside of his legs melted after a 3-hour MRI scan from absorbing the electromagnetic energy, just like a microwave.

As long as the heat can be easily dissipated it's not a problem. Or if the frequencies are such that they don't interact with the human body much at all, or if they do, the amount of energy absorbed can easily be dissipated quickly as heat. However if there's a slow build-up of heat over the long-term in a way that can't easily be dissipated, then it can cause over-heating which can cause damage or even light burns in the very worst case.

[–]zyxzevn 11 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 2 fun12 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Heat is not the problem.
The plasma inside the cells are reacting to the electromagnetic waves.
Like a grape in a microwave.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCrtk-pyP0I

The ions are conducting the electricity, which causes the enormous radiant plasma. The plasma inside the cells are ions contained in water and have a far less violent reaction.

In studies, we can indeed see that ions are pushed through membranes inside the cell, and are able to damage the cell. But this is only the surface of all the biochemistry that happening inside cells and the body.

These hazards are not looked at by standards that were introduced by the navy, that used big radar systems that made some people get radar-injuries. That way the injuries seemed avoided. These standards were never changed to deal with bio-electrochemistry and long term exposure.

For peer reviewed research and other info see: http://www.microwavenews.com