Invisible Rainbow by Changlin Zhang & Jonathan Heaney

Author:Changlin Zhang & Jonathan Heaney [Zhang, Changlin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: MED004000 Medical / Alternative & Complementary Medicine
ISBN: 9781623170110
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 2016-05-22T16:00:00+00:00

Unique Challenges of Studying the Electromagnetic Body

The scope of our senses inevitably dictated the course that science and medicine took in investigating our bodies. Starting with the visible and material aspects, it later began to slowly venture into the invisible and field parts. This latter exploration poses unique challenges that exploring the solid physical realm did not.

Firstly, like the radio waves that continuously enshroud us, the electromagnetic body is invisible. Apart from the narrow range of electromagnetic waves that we can perceive as visible light, we can only visualize their structure and pattern in our imagination. We are unable to study the electromagnetic body using our eyes, microscopes, or chemical analyses. For this reason, even the existence of an electromagnetic body was, until recently, an open question in biology and medicine. Compared to the accessibility of the chemical body to direct perception, the challenge of inferring the existence of the electromagnetic body through meticulous analyses and synthesis of complex experimental data is daunting.

The current situation in biology and medicine is similar to that of physics in the nineteenth century, when people were confronted with evidence of the existence of invisible radio waves. People did not believe in their existence even though the world was full of them. It took Faraday discovering the relationship between electricity and magnetism, Maxwell discerning the formula to describe the relationship and thereby predicting the existence of electromagnetic waves, and finally Marconi inventing long-distance radio transmission to convince people that they existed. While their existence is established in today’s world, we are still unable to perceive them directly. The invisibility of the electromagnetic body poses an enduring challenge to its research and recognition.

The second problem is that the electromagnetic body is highly dynamic, sometimes like an ocean in a storm, making it harder to observe, measure, and formulate laws of its behavior. Also, the more precise the measurements become, the more unstable the resulting values are. In addition to continuously fluctuating with varying intensity and frequency, the electromagnetic body also changes shape in response to a change of location, and it is modified especially by various pathological, physiological, and psychological states. The images and the concepts of the electromagnetic body are fundamentally different from those of the material chemical body. Its dynamic, variable nature, at odds with the ingrained notion that we have a stable solid body, make it more difficult to recognize. In addition, formulating a theoretical system to mathematically describe the characteristics and movement of such a highly dynamic structure poses a great challenge.

Thirdly, we are unable to study the electromagnetic body using the conventional method of separation and isolation used in anatomy, or by using an electron microscope or chromatography, which allows an organic mixture to be separated into its thousands of different constituent compounds. The electromagnetic body is both inseparable and untouchable. Due to the strong effect that a conductive metal has on electromagnetic fields, even bringing a dissecting scalpel close to the body can greatly disturb the refined structure of the electromagnetic body.

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