Switzerland halts rollout of 5G over health concerns

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[–]magnora7 8 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

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.

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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.

Dissipation relies upon grounding. If excessive energy is introduced in a short period via frequencies then it could burn out the ground wire, or if not grounded; then damage will result due to the alterations and buildup. The nervous system behaves in a similar fashion, but sedentary lifestyles are not the panacea. That being said, there are ways around this issue in other unique ways. I wouldn't completely discredit this, but rather simulate it better to the point of it being a solution in the real world; before implementation.

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Dissipation relies upon grounding.

No, not electrical dissipation. Heat dissipation. Once the EMF has been absorbed by the body, it's heat, not voltage. EMF generally does not induce static voltages in the body.

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Right but within the nervous system; heat dissipation relies upon various thermo-regulatory mechanisms like sweating, evaporation and circulatory functions. People who cannot dissipate heat properly are in danger of getting a heat stroke or heat-exhaustion leading to further complications. The cause of heat dissipation dysfunction usually involves something along the lines of nerve damage, dehydration, or skin damage/genetic predisposations.

Those causes of thermoregulatory dysfunction is what I labeled in the abstract sense as "grounding issues". Hence if the possibility of ameliorating those "grounding" issues for thermoregulatory dysfunction could be addressed then you may be able to survive in a higher frequency environment, if that makes sense. There needs to be a parallel solution on the side over time basically.

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Those are all good points, but even a block of wood will dissipate heat through conduction and convection

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Of course, its the same principle; but I am a little lost on what you mean now. In terms of cellular damage, a block of wood isn't the same complexity as the autonomic or central nervous system. Heat dissipation would also be a different mechanism for those two things since their physiology would be tailored to their differing functions. Iono? ¯_(ツ)_/¯