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.
