Appendix 2
Electrical Technology and Human Evolution
L.B. Hainsworth, 1987
13/91 Dampier Avenue, Mullaloo, Western Austrlia 6025, Australia
Copyright, Speculations in Science and Technology, Vol. 11, No. 2, p. 101
Abstract: The influence of naturally occurring Schumann resonant signals on brain-wave pattern evolution is formally stated to show that low-power electrical fields could produce evolutionary change. The electrical fields produced by modern electro-technology are then considered briefly, as possible sources of evolutionary change. The characteristics of some forms which might result are considered, and some of the factors tha tmight inhibit survival of existing forms. The extent of research work being done in this area is assessed in relation to the lack of data available, showing that any expert opinion asserting that there is no danger from these fields is not based on measurements, and must therefore be quantitatively valueless. The final conclusion is that modern technology will change human evolution, and only extensive investigation of the naturally occurring signals will give any lead to show what results might occur.
Brain-wave pattern evolution
An analysis of factors that might affect the evolution or development of the human brain-wave frequency spectrum showed that naturally ocurring, extra-low frequency, electromagnetic fields were the only physical quantities that could have been responsible for that spectrum. This conclusion, although attracting reasonable interest worldwide, has remained totally undisputed since its publication four years ago. (1) This leads to the further conclusion that, in the absence of any reasonable alternative, that hypothesis should be formally stated as:
“Factors determining frequencies of brain-wave signals The evolution or development of the frequencies of operation of the principal human brain-wave signals has been governed or determined by the frequencies of naturally occurring electromagnetic signals circulating in the electrically resonant cavity bounded by the Earth and the ionosphere. In particular, the alph-rhythm frequency has so developed that it is impossible for it to suffer any extensive interference from, or confusion with, naturally occurring signals.”
Corollaries to the Hypothesis
(1) The human biological system is senitive to the existence of extra-low frequency electromagnetic fields.
(2) Exposure of the human population to extra-low frequency electromagnetic signals, at frequencies which differ from those of the naturally occurring ones but in the same range, will evoke biological responses.
(3) The responses will be such that, by further processes of natural selection, they will cause a change in the “natural” brain-wave frequency spectrum, i.e. they will produce a form of evolutionary change in the human species.
Additional Consequences
Further possible consequences could include the following:
(1) The evolutionary change in the operational mode of the human central nervous system could cause drastic changes in human characteristics.
(2) If the human system is sensitive to electromagnetic fields at extra-low frequences, then it could also be expected to be sensitive to similar fields at other frequencies, in which case, exposure to electric fields associated with any power usage or any radio or television transmissions may also be hazardous.
(3) Other species could also undergo evolutionary change as a result of exposure to unnatural oscillatory electromagnetic fields.
(4) In the absence of careful and continuous measurements and observations, changes produced may escape notice until it is too late to alter them, or to prevent their spread.
Present-Day Electromagnetic Fields
Modern electro-technology subjects the whole world to artificially generated electromagnetic fields, at frequencies from the lowest brain-wave rhythm values up into the microwave spectrum. Much of this exposure in industrialized countries is linked to domestic use of electrical power. This spreads exposure into non-industrial areas by wave of power transmission lines, power transformers, radiation from domestic appliances and light industrial applications occurring in what are substantially non-industrial areas.
Further sources of exposure, even more widespread and potentially dangerous, ar emodulated radio signals. These completely envelope the entire world, and, even if there is no biological response to the radio-frequency component of such signals, there is no guarantee that demodulation of such signals cannot occur in a biological circuit, and hence inject signals at damaging low frequencies into that system.
A particularly interesting type of modulated radio signal is the kind known as “over-the-horizon radar”, in which the repetition frequency of the modulated pulses is very often in the brain-wave frequency range. Perhaps the best known of these “facilities” is the Russian system known as “woodpecker” radar, which blankets North America and Europe. However, there are many other installations of the same kind all over the world, including one said to be directed from Pine Gap, Australia towards South-east Asia for detecting possible drug runners, etc., one on Fylingdales Moor in North Yorkshire, Uk, and one on Mormond Hill in North-east Scotland, UK.
Thus, since there is no evidence of any error in the conlusions set out above, it seems that conditions for evolutionary changes in the human brain-wave patterns have apparently now been established.
In light of this, the present usage of electrical technology may be presenting one of the greatest environmental hazards that mankind has ever faced.
Change Mechanism
Such changes could be potentially disastrous, and will continue to affect our descendants until the present technology either collapses or is abandoned. Even then repercussions must occur as further evolutionary changes return the brain-wave rhythms to patterns compatible with natural conditions.
Of course, the end product of such an evolutionary change need not be significantly different from the present product. Unfortunately, the history of technological side effects does not seem to include any that are not, at least, undesirable. For example: the Eastern Mediterranean and the Great Lakes in North America are often regarded as ecological disasters, acid rain is creating havoc in Northern Europe, and heavy-metal pollution in restricted waters has made eating some fish dangerous in many areas, and even deadly in Japan. To assume that the end effects of present electromagnetic pollution may be less deadly would thus be the height of criminal irresponsiblity, unless some extensive attempts have been made to assess what those effects might be.
In any event, the change-over process will be a painful one, governed by the principle of survival of the fittest, and extending over a timescale which could possibly be as short as two to ten generations: i.e. 80 to 400 years.
While natural selection will determine what form of the species will survive, it is still only possible to speculate on precisely what those forms may be like, and on what processes might inhibit the survival of other forms.
Possible Survival Forms
Accepting that changed electromagnetic field conditions will result in changed brain-wave patterns, there is still not enough known about their operation to say what effect this may produce in either the mental or physical characteristics of the organism. The possibilities seem to include:
A drop in the intelligence of the surviving species. That is, the development of a moronic species, which would almost certainly be disastrous.
or A rise in intelligence, which seems rather improbable.
or The development of a psychopathic species.
or The development of a species with the faculty of telepath or other unusual mental ability.
or The development of a species of telepathic psychopaths.
or The development of a species of telepathic genius.
or A mix of some of the above, e.g. some telepathic geniuses and some moronic psychopaths.
or No significant change, which is a condition that could really only be assessed by an independent observer in a few hundred years’ time, if it was then certain that none of the foregoing changes had occurred.
These are just some of the possible changes in the human species that could result from the changes in brain-wave patterns that will follow from exposure to our continued thoughtless use of electrical systems.
Factors Inhibiting Survival of Other Forms
For the principle of natural selection to apply, those forms adaptable to the changed environment must be more likely to breed than those who are not, and there are various possibilities as to how this may happen. However, the most likely factor for bringing this about is the elimination of the less adaptable forms before breeding can occur, i.e. at a comparatively early age.
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