Man-Made Electro-Magnetic Frequencies

Man made EMF is a potentially harmful, (usually pulsed) energy transmitted as radiation from antennae, cell phones, radio towers, microwaves, wi-fi, bluetooth devices. And EMF can even leak from from power-cables, or poorly manufactured electrical equipment.

Since there are many different forms of such energy, the overall effect on the human body (and environment) is poorly understood. So where it CAN be harmful or dangerous, (explained below), SEEN’s objective is to educate the Public, and demand regulation.

SEEN is concerned with four main sources of EMFs all linked to adverse health effects:

Useful Links

• Summary of Safe Exposure Limits 
• Building Biology Evaluation Guidelines 
• The Bioinitiative Report Overall Conclusions
• Extremely low-frequency magnetic fields are possibly carcinogenic to humans (Group 2B) based on studies that have linked 300-400nT with doubling the chance of childhood leukemia IARC Summary of Data Reported and Evaluation
• The WHO/International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified radio frequency electromagnetic fields as possibly carcinogenic to humans (Group 2B), based on an increased risk for glioma, a malignant type of brain cancer1, associated with wireless phone use.

There are various different Electromagnetic Field meters available to purchase. However not all meters will measure all the various different types of EMF we are being exposed to. For example, the TriField and the Cornet meters measure all three: electrical fields, magnetic fields and radio frequency fields. View some of the different types of EMF meters below. However, most of the meters on the market will not be capable of measuring the higher frequencies proposed for 5G.

The government has established maximum exposure limits, which they say, must not be exceeded. These limits, however, are unrealistically high and, we suspect, sacrifice our safety in order to cater to corporate, industrial and political interests.

EMF’s all exist on a spectrum.  Visible Light colours, Infra-Red, Ultra-Violet, Microwaves, Radio, X-Rays, Gamma-Waves, and even Cosmic waves are all examples of different wavelength EMF’s.

Each different-wavelength EM wave vibrates at a different ‘frequency’ (and energy level). Interestingly, the smaller the wavelength, the higher the frequency AND energy of the photon.

See Fig. 2 which shows a small sample of the  range of the  EM Spectrum.

Fields of Energy

As energy passes through a point in time and space, different ‘Field’ strength & values are measured there. In a larger area, the radiating ‘field of energy’ can predictably decrease as you move away from the point source of EMF emissions.

If the sources of EMF are moving around (like the mobile phone in your hand), the field energy at different points is always changing in complex ways.

To understand SEEN’s concerns, let us mainly focus on all static sources of EMR, such as WIFI modems, cell towers, 5G fixed antennas, etc. This is important, because, for example, a sleeping person’s head is static.

If you take a particular point in space and time – e.g the tip of your nose – and measure all the static electrical (E) or magnetic (M) energy passing through that 3D location, then, as you move a millimetre from that point in any direction, the EM force will generally show a different (but fixed) EM strength and configuration.

What’s the ‘Matter’ with EMF?

Since EMF’s have a force, but not a mass, it may be more correct to call a quantum (or single photon) a “corpuscle” rather than a “particle”. Ultimately, it seems, photons of EMF are better described as energy rather than matter.

Incidentally, a very strange property of EMF, is that a photon seems to not actually occupy a particular space or time until that corpuscle ‘interacts’ with some other matter like human tissue, rocks, or mirrors.

In many ways then, this means that EMF is energetic, but not ‘real’. It actually remains in a ‘ghost-like’ immaterial state until its interaction with matter (like biological tissue) in the ‘real world’.

Depending upon its conductivity, EMF conveys its energy (by passing-through or by absorption-in) to objects in the material world.

For today’s purposes, (being to stop harmful EMF transmissions) we needn’t discuss the ‘ghostly’ nature of energy. If you’re interested in going down the rabbit-hole of quantum theory,  click to learn more here.

Ionizing (IR) and Non-Ionizing Radiation (NIR)

Ionizing Radiation is often perceived as ‘atomic decay’ of things like uranium (which looses ‘heavy particles’ like neutrons, electrons, and protons. These wreak havoc, tumours, and DNA damage immediately on biological tissue. Non-Ionizing Radiation can be thought of as “Everything else that’s too small to be a particle, (including EM Frequency) which doesn’t ionize (break off electrons, protons and such) from the matter is collides with. Thus, NIR is historically considered far less damaging, and essentially inconsequentially harmful.

This perception is ignorant and obsolete ever since studies (over at least the last 4 decades) have showed evidence of EMF causing harm to biological tissue. 

ARPANSA, ICNIRP, and other entities historically linked to the (AEC) Atomic Energy Commission after WWII, needed an arbitrary way to classify and regulate different types of radiation emissions. Modern EMF classifications are messed up because of this historical debacle.

In industrial settings, (like nuclear power stations) Atomic Energy provider began using the contentious (some say ‘nonsense’) terminology of distinguishing between (a) Ionizing and (b) Non-Ionizing radiation.

It was basically as if to say (a) was harmful, and (b) was not.  Or that (a) was ‘high energy’, and (b) was ‘low energy’.  But in the real world, things are not so cut and dried.