What is your daily exposure to electromagnetic fields? Should you be worried? Frontline: Currents of Fear, PBS 1995
Some people believe … the threat they see comes from electromagnetic fields produced by more than two million miles of power lines that criss-cross the country. ibid.
A landmark Swedish study showing the children living near power lines have up to four times the risk of childhood leukemia. ibid.
Not everyone agrees that power line magnetic fields are dangerous. ibid.
Power line EMFs: the fields from these lines vibrate only sixty times a second: this frequency is so low and the energy in the fields so tiny that all other natural sources dwarf it. ibid.
Electric fields are generated by moving current. And the Earth is one big moving current. The Earth spins and the interior of the Earth is molten, liquid. Professor Laura Danly, Griffith Observatory
One of the biggest dangers out there – Magnetic Electric Fields ... Didn’t we do a show just last series about people who want you to wear magnetic fields to help you heal? Penn & Teller, Bullshit! s2e2: Safety Hysteria, Showtime 2014
This bizarre story began in 2008. Zoologist Hynek Burda was analysing satellite imagery of the Earth’s pastures. What he found was remarkable – across the world ... hundreds of millions of cows were facing in the same direction – either north or south. Weird or What? s1e2: Ghost Ship, History 2010
The idea that some kind of electromagnetism is at work knocking out ships and planes is just part of the pseudo-science of the Bermuda Triangle mystery-mongers. Joe Nickell, Skeptical Inquirer
Looking back to the instant of creation is a relatively new idea. The Big Bang theory is widely accepted. But the concept is less than a century old. But all this changed in 1929. At California’s Mount Wilson Observatory Edwin Hubble studied the light from galaxies. He observed that the farther away the galaxy, the longer the wave-lengths of light it emits ... If a galaxy is moving away from us, its light-waves stretch, becoming longer and redder. It’s called red-shifting ... Nearly all galaxies are receding from us at a million miles an hour ... The universe is expanding outward from a single point ... Out of the fireball, the four fundamental forces of nature formed. These forces underpin everything around us. Gravity is the reason stars and planets formed ... Electromagnetism lights our cities, runs our phones and connects our computers. And the two nuclear forces, strong and weak, bind the particles that make up our bodies and power the furnace of our sun ... Without them the universe would be a featureless fog of radiation ... How was mass developed in the first second of the Big Bang? Big Bang
Suicide Forest, Japan: said to contain high levels of electromagnetic energy. Ancient Aliens s3e10: Aliens and Evil Places, History 2011
Megalithic monuments linked together by electromagnetic energy. Green historic ruins arranged across vast distances in straight lines. And advanced mathematics carved into landmarks more than five thousand years ago. Ancient Aliens s3e14: Aliens and the Secret Code
This dramatized programme is inspired by an actual 1972 document entitled The 12 Devil’s Graveyards Around the World. The Devil’s Graveyards: Vile Vorteces Revealed, caption, History 2020
Dr Joseph Spencer, biologist: As we travelled further, the dog started … The dog went mad. Why? Why this desert? Why are there no animals, no insects, nothing? It’s unheard of in biology. ibid.
This area of the Algerian desert is known locally as La Zona Morta ... It’s a thousand-square-mile area where there’s hardly life as far back as human record exist. Local tribesmen will tell you that animals don’t live here, and the animals that accidentally enter almost always die trying to escape. ibid. commentary Don Murphy
Here in Algeria all around there’s these unusual events: in Adrar swarms of locusts were showing up regularly [80 km inside the Zone of Death]; in Quargla various species of birds were becoming physically unable to fly and died … large flocks of birds falling from the sky, fish are dying in record numbers, insects are showing up in territories where they’ve never been seen before. But there’s a pattern. ibid. Spencer
We checked for radon, CO2, methane: nothing … Magnetism was a possibility … Out here there are wild fluctuations … huge waves of pulsating magnetic energy everywhere, because all animals can sense magnetic fields. ibid.
There’s not only one Vortex, there were more than one: it had already been discovered: Bio-Vortices. bid.
Ivan T Sanderson: educated at Cambridge University, Sanderson founded the Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained. ibid. commentary
The Indian Ocean vortex … The vessels that went missing were concentrated to twelve places on the globe: there were four vortices in the Pacific, the west-Pacific vortex just off the coast of Japan, the South Pacific vortex off the coast of New Zealand, the Pacific vortex near Hawaii as well as the Easter Island vortex just west of South America. Then perhaps there is the most infamous vortex: the Bermuda Triangle. ibid.
It seemed these vortices not only impacted animals and machinery, but their awesome power impacts the world’s weather patterns as well. ibid.
It has to do with the Earth’s magnetics … It wasn’t until I started researching the vortices at the poles that I realised my suspicions were confirmed. ibid. Spencer
Just beneath the surface he found a blue-coloured substance. Running a geiger-counter over it Dr Spencer found the topsoil had unusually high levels of radiation, just like at the South Pole … What was causing the radiation? … The aluminium isotope [26] they are finding on the Earth’s surface and that is abundance at all the vile vortices is somehow reacting with the metal at the Earth’s core to create these magnetic anomalies. ibid. Murphy
It’s a GPS system, a way to achieve global positioning … These vortexes post a serious threat to all life on Earth. ibid.
Each vortex appears to be a thousands square miles. ibid.
Hawaii: the United States government had unknowingly wiped out one of the twelve positions that was putting a drag on the world’s rotation. ibid.
[Experiment] These capacitors are loaded with power; when we drop those switches, the power’s going to hit here – boom – the protons are going to shoot into the ground and zap isotope 26 rendering harmless aluminium oxide. ibid.
Magnetar: In a most extreme case the magnetic field can be ten to the fifteen or one hundred trillion times the magnetic field of the Earth. Professor Stan Woosley
The Sun’s raging surface is turbulent. Its eruptions ripped and torn by enormous magnetic fields. Soho revealed that like the Earth, the Sun has weather: gigantic solar tornadoes twist through its atmosphere. And gigantic shockwaves ripple across its surface. The surface of the Sun is heaving. Every five minutes the entire star breathes in and out. Our Sun is pulsating. Universe: Stars
The Sun’s magnetic field is a tangled web. The Universe s1e1: Secrets of the Sun, History 2007
Magnetar: these mischievous stars have the strongest magnetic field in the universe. Scientists have confirmed twelve of these rare stars in our galaxy and there may be more … Magnetars are born from out of the death-throes of massive stars. The Universe s1e12: Most Dangerous Places
There are two types of neutron star: pulsars that spin rapidly and emit beeping radio pulses, and magnetars that spin more slowly and emit energy from magnetism. Magnetars which are much rarer than pulsars have the strongest known magnetic fields in the universe. The Universe s3e10: Strangest Things
CMEs – Coronal Mass Ejections – these hot bubbles of ionised gas contain up to ten billion tons of material. They shoot out into space at speeds of several million miles an hour ... They can trigger geo-magnetic storms ... They are extremely dangerous for astronauts ... Our sun’s surface is a force to be reckoned with. The Universe s5e1: Seven Wonders of the Solar System (2), History 2010
Solar magnetism: why is it so deadly and so misunderstood? And is there anything we can do to escape the magnetic storm? The Universe s5e3: Magnetic Storms
A new generation of solar satellites has revealed just how big these solar flares are and how vulnerable are planet is. ibid.
The key component of magnetism is that it attracts and repels. ibid.
The only thing that keeps people from walking through walls or falling through the floor is magnetism. Molecules and atoms are extremely small, and the space between atoms is extremely large. At an atomic level almost everything is made up of empty space. It’s not the atoms themselves but the magnetic field that makes matter solid, that keeps a person from walking through walls. ibid.
Solar magnetic storms pose a disturbing threat to life on our planet. ibid.
All solar activity is basically magnetic activity. The sun’s magnetism is created by the movement of super-heated plasma as it ripples across the surface of our home star. ibid.