Rhythms
Frank A. Brown, Jr. · 1972
Biological clocks rely on natural Earth electromagnetic fields, suggesting modern EMF pollution disrupts millions of years of evolutionary adaptation.
Plain English Summary
This 1972 review by biologist Frank Brown examined how organisms' internal biological clocks interact with subtle environmental electromagnetic fields from the Earth itself. Brown proposed that natural geophysical rhythms, including the Earth's magnetic field variations, help synchronize biological processes in living things. The research suggested that organisms are far more sensitive to environmental electromagnetic influences than previously understood.
Why This Matters
Frank Brown's groundbreaking work in 1972 was decades ahead of its time, revealing that life on Earth evolved in constant interaction with natural electromagnetic fields. What this means for you today is profound: if organisms are naturally attuned to the Earth's subtle electromagnetic rhythms, then the artificial EMF pollution we've created in just the past few decades represents an unprecedented biological disruption. Brown's research helps explain why so many people report feeling better when they escape to nature, away from WiFi, cell towers, and electrical infrastructure. The science demonstrates that our bodies expect and respond to natural electromagnetic patterns that have existed for millions of years. The reality is that modern technology has fundamentally altered this ancient relationship, potentially disrupting the very biological rhythms that keep us healthy and synchronized with our environment.
Finding
The new hypothesis encompasses all the clock-timed rhythms—i.e. those that display the unique property of a high degree of period stability, including complete or nearly complete temperature-independence of their periods. It includes all the reported periods, ranging from solar-day, through tidal and monthly, to annual ones. The rhythmic patterns are postulated to comprise genetically and environmentally determined behavioral sequences that have evolved to fit within the natural geophysical periods. Furthermore, these sequences are proposed to depend upon the subtle rhythmic geophysical variations both during their individual development and their on-going precise timing.
In their words
“The new hypothesis encompasses all the clock-timed rhythms—i.e. those that display the unique property of a high degree of period stability, including complete or nearly complete temperature-independence of their periods. It includes all the reported periods, ranging from solar-day, through tidal and monthly, to annual ones. The rhythmic patterns are postulated to comprise genetically and environmentally determined behavioral sequences that have evolved to fit within the natural geophysical periods. Furthermore, these sequences are proposed to depend upon the subtle rhythmic geophysical variations both during their individual development and their on-going precise timing.”
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Exposure Information
Specific exposure levels were not quantified in this study.
Show BibTeX
@article{rhythms_g4544,
author = {Frank A. Brown and Jr.},
title = {Rhythms},
year = {1972},
}