Natural ELF fields in the atmosphere and in living organisms
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Price, Colin
Williams, Earle R.
Elhalel, Gal
Sentman, Dave
Date Issued
February 2020
Journal
International Journal of Biometeorology
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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Price, Colin et al. "Natural ELF fields in the atmosphere and in living organisms." International Journal of Biometeorology 65, 1 (February 2020): 85-92 © 2020 ISB
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Abstract
Most electrical activity in vertebrates and invertebrates occurs at extremely low frequencies (ELF), with characteristic maxima below 50 Hz. The origin of these frequency maxima is unknown and remains a mystery. We propose that over billions of years during the evolutionary history of living organisms on Earth, the natural electromagnetic resonant frequencies in the atmosphere, continuously generated by global lightning activity, provided the background electric fields for the development of cellular electrical activity. In some animals, the electrical spectrum is difficult to differentiate from the natural background atmospheric electric field produced by lightning. In this paper, we present evidence for the link between the natural ELF fields and those found in many living organisms, including humans.
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Parsons Laboratory for Environmental Science and Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s00484-020-01864-6
