DNA is a fractal antenna in electromagnetic fields (2011)(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
DNA is a fractal antenna in electromagnetic fields (2011)(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
Here was how it was described when she was awarded the National Medal of Science: "For discovery of a new property of the DNA helix, long-range electron transfer, and for showing that electron transfer depends upon stacking of the base pairs and DNA dynamics. Her experiments reveal a strategy for how DNA repair proteins locate DNA lesions and demonstrate a biological role for DNA-mediated charge transfer".
If it turns out that the cell does locate damage by looking for sections of DNA that do not conduct when they should, then having the DNA acting as an antenna could interfere with that. The induced currents in the separate strands on both sides of a break could make it look like there is no break.
I'd guess that this would not be as bad as getting hit with ionizing radiation, which can actually break bonds. Non-ionizing radiation inducing currents would not break bonds--it would just interfere with repairing bonds that were broken by some other mechanism.
Still not something I want to encourage, so I'm going to avoid dumping large amounts of non-ionizing radiation into my body just to be on the safe side [2].
[1] http://www.its.caltech.edu/~jkbgrp/
[2] ...says the man who just ordered a handheld ham radio transceiver that puts out 5 watts at 144/220/440 MHz, which is several times what a cell phone puts out.
The frequency allocations for 2G cellular communications networks do allow the ME to transmit up to 5W. That figure was inherited from the very first brick phones and still holds up, because, you know, there could be still some brick phones in use :)
"Why Cell Phones Can’t Cause Cancer, But Bananas Can"
http://mitchkirby.com/2015/04/22/why-cell-phones-cant-cause-...
I've also stumbled to this:
http://www.febsletters.org/article/S0014-5793%2800%2901822-6...
There are a lot of papers which have failed to reproduce these effects. Granted fractal antennas are weird in and of themselves but cellular ones fail to pass the sniff test.
Also, sugar.
The ocean blocks radio waves because it is much much larger than them. A small (very small) ocean would act like an antenna, not an insulator.
Wonder what an internal radiosource that powerful does to the rest of me?
There's another, less invasive version called pulsed radiofrequency ablation that doesn't cook the nerves - it uses the RF signal to confuse/fuck up the nerves without killing them. Doesn't work as well, but less risk. I wonder if DNA/radio is part of how pulsed RF works?
Apparently the 'pulsed' version of your treatment is to keep the temperature down while still having the same effect on the nerve.
So maybe it's more like a fuse than an antenna.
1. It's paywalled. Many of us can't even RTFP.
2. It's clearly trying to prove a pet model.
There's nothing inherently wrong with #2, but #2 makes this article a bad place to start a discussion among non-experts who aren't in a position to judge the model in comparison to others that answer similar questions. This problem is exacerbated by #1.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_division_multiple_access
As a HAM radio operator, you could literally hang a copper wire between two trees and pump 1 kW into it. No mechanical stress whatsoever - the EMF frequency is too high to generate elastic waves in the wire.
Additionally "natural" radiation is something you've evolved to coexist with. Take for example Uranium vs Plutonium, both are alpha emitters and they emit particles at nearly the same energy levels however that tiny energy difference results in very big difference in their effects on living tissue. The difference however cannot be explained by the power level difference alone, as both higher level alpha particles from natural sources as well as lower level alpha emissions from artificial sources showed a lower and higher amount of damage to nuclear material and cellular tissue general respectively.
And yes I am very well aware that alpha radiation isn't part of the EM spectrum as it's electron free helium nucleus, however it just shows that life evolved to be resilient to environmental sources of radiation be it high level particles like the nuclear decay of natural (existing since the 1st self replicating proteins occurred or even earlier if those had a replicating precursor) or high energy protons form the sun, or terrestrial and extra terrestrial sources of EM radiation.
Or worse, right next to your reproductive material.
Like that maybe? DNA coils coiling into coils which again coil into coils...
Hence "fractal antenna".
I'm sure you mean the lower frequency stuff though, and yeah, that's probably pretty safe.
Salt water will also work as an antenna if it's the right size.
Which is what I said in my original message.
I was just refuting your assumption that because the DNA is in a cell that means it can not see any RF.
