A neat coincidence is how the Earth has naturally resonant...
Andrew Côté@Andercot
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Feb 17, 2025
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A neat coincidence is how the Earth has naturally resonant frequencies if you think of the ionosphere as an electric 'drum', and this frequency range corresponds to the brains frequency of operation while meditating
Whats weirder is how solar activity might affect how you feel
Whats weirder is how solar activity might affect how you feel
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There are some theories of consciousness that posit it inherently depends on the synchronization and resonance of electromagnetic fields across the body, so, not just neuronal firings but the fields those firings produce, across the somatic nervous system, vagus nerve, etc
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What's known for sure is that brain wave patterns are very consistently tied to different kinds of cognitive activities, with higher frequencies associated with more excited states of alertness, concentration, creativity, etc
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To excite the 'electric drum' of the Earth's ionosphere you need to dump a whole lot of energy into it all at once. This is exactly what happens during a Coronal Mass Ejection - a huge amount of plasma shoots out from the Sun and streams into the Earth's ionosphere
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Does the connection between solar activity and human health actually pan out? Shockingly, yes.
Increases in solar sunspot activity are found to increase diastolic and systolic blood pressure by interacting with the earths geomagnetic field, but that's just the start:
Increases in solar sunspot activity are found to increase diastolic and systolic blood pressure by interacting with the earths geomagnetic field, but that's just the start:
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Geomagnetic storms can also trigger depressive phases in people predisposed to depressive symptoms as well, although this effect is only statistically significant for men and not women
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Annual variations in geomagnetic field also correspond with variations in gene expression in human cells, leading to certain 'summer genes' and 'winter genes' being expressed - although one might think there is more than just goemagnetic field changing during the seaosn
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That's why researchers looked at a 21-year period and analyzed pap-smears and physiological measurements against both the 11-year and 5-year solar cycle, and found an extremely strong alignment between sunspot maxima and minima and rates of pathology
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It gets even weirder, actually. A team of researchers from China put together an analysis claiming that major pandemics and epidemics have consistently broken out during sunspot minima or maxima, with the exception of Covid (since it was a man-made lab leak, woops)
