Humans Emit Laser Light!

["Richard C. Mannix" <rcmannix@uci.edu>]

Now here's a fascinating study for all of you non-ionizing radiation
fanatics out there to devour. You never know what you will find when you
perform a Web search on "coherent radiation":
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Body's Ability to Emit light Arouses New
          Hopes & Fears on Radiation From Mobile
          Phones

          Dr Gerard Hyland


                                   New research by University of Warwick
physicist Dr Gerard
                                   Hyland on the human body's own
electromagnetic radiation, raises a
                                   host of new concerns and possibilities
as to the effect of microwave
                                   radiation (such as that generated by
mobile phones, radar or
                                   microwave ovens) on the human body.

                                   This summer Dr Hyland will give two
papers at international
                                   conferences outlining his research into
the phenomenon that
                                   biological systems, including the human
body generate and emit
                                   extremely low intensity radiation in the
form of photons (a
                                   microscopic packet of light energy), and
that these photon emissions
                                   are not random but display coherence
(similar to that possessed by
                                   the much more intense light generated by
a laser). Dr Hyland
                                   believes that the origin of this
coherence stems from the body's own
                                   metabolism which generates its own
coherent electromagnetic field,
                                   which imposes the observed coherence on
the emitted photons, the
                                   very weak emission of which can be
viewed as an outward sign of
                                   an orderly functioning metabolism. If
this is the case then serious
                                   questions arise about the effect of
external sources of microwave
                                   radiation on living tissue and its own
electromagnetic patterns.

                                   For instance, much is known about how
external microwaves can
                                   have a heating effect on living tissue
and other substances. There
                                   are strict regulations and restrictions
on the operation of things that
                                   could generate such a heating or thermal
effect - mobile phones
                                   and their masts, microwave ovens etc,
but few have considered the
                                   possibility that these microwave sources
could also have a non
                                   thermal effect on the bodies own
microwave activity. If, by
                                   unlucky chance, one of these microwave
pollutants matched one of
                                   the key microwave patterns of the human
body the resultant
                                   resonance effect may be quite dangerous.
In Russia, where this
                                   knowledge of biophysics is more widely
known, manufacturers of
                                   microwave emitting devices (such as
leaking microwave ovens)
                                   have safety precautions 1000 times more
stringent than those in the
                                   UK and US - just in case such an effect
could occur.

                                   If we understood more of how this
electromagnetic activity
                                   biosytems operated we could perhaps use
external microwaves
                                   therapeutically to cause beneficial
effects in the human body.
                                   Russian scientists are already
experimenting with a form of
                                   electromagnetic acupuncture - applying
microwave radiation to
                                   acupuncture points in an attempt to
treat medical conditions, and
                                   they claim they are having some
considerable success. Dr Hyland
                                   postulates many other applications for
his research. Sensors could
                                   be developed to measure the ripeness and
freshness of food by
                                   measuring the amount and coherence of
its light emission. Medical
                                   conditions could be diagnosed
non-invasively, and a new
                                   understanding of how consciousness
operates at a quantum level
                                   might even emerge.

                                   One of the applications most recently to
be considered is the use of
                                   resonant microwave radiation to awaken
dormant phages within
                                   bacteria which then kill them; this
alternative electromagnetic
                                   therapy could be particularly welcome
given the increasing immunity
                                   of certain strains of bacteria to
conventional antibiotics.

                                   Note for editors: Much of the early work
on this area of research
                                   was first carried out by the late
Professor Herbert Fröhlich FRS of
                                   Liverpool University. Dr Hyland was his
last PhD student.

                                   For further details please contact:

                                   Dr Gerard Hyland, Dept of Physics,
University of Warwick, Tel:
                                   01203 523412, 
                                   email: G.J.Hyland@warwick.ac.uk

Rick Mannix
Health Physicist
Laser Safety Officer
Univ. of Calif., Irvine
949-824-6098
rcmannix@uci.edu
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