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PART TWO:
The Role of Electromagnetic Energy in the Regulation of Life Processes
Chapter 3: Control of Living Organisms by Natural and Simulated Environmental
Electromagnetic Energy
Introduction
Evolution of Life
Biological Cycles
Positional and Navigational Aids
References
Introduction
Life on earth is sustained within a relatively narrow range of well-defined environmental
parameters such as oxygen concentration, atmospheric pressure, temperature, water vapor, and light.
The proper conditions are met only within a thin, film-like shell of atmosphere immediately adjacent to
the surface of the earth. Deleterious factors such as ionizing radiation from the sun and other sources in
space are screened out by charged particles trapped in the outermost reaches of the earth's magnetic
field and by the ionized outer layers of the atmosphere itself. For life to be maintained these factors
must be kept within their "normal" limits; even minor deviations produce immediate physiological and
sensory effects.
There are other factors, which we can only sense with specially designed instruments, that
constitute our electromagnetic environment. While the existence of the earth's magnetic field has been
known for centuries, only within the past few decades has its true complexity been revealed. Far from
being static and unvarying, the magnetic field exhibits variations ranging from catastrophic polarity
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