don't worry Dennis...eventually your pooch will try waking you, but well after any cat in the house would take a little nibble...hahaha.
I'm not really buying the basic premise though, which makes me think some meaning got garbled in the reporting stage. After all, if humans are this sensitive to weak magnetic and RF fields, then there may be some truth to the people who claim sensitivity to high voltage lines, WiFi and cell phones...so far that's not clearly demonstrated. I would suspect that this thing is actually generating a small electrical field that is stimulating the brain. Maybe some one of the resident geniuses can offer a better explanation, because I just can't buy what's been written and I won't have access to PNAS to read the original citation until Monday...
While I don't know the field strength of the equipment used by this researcher, in general I would not characterize the fields being used as "weak" :-)
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don't worry Dennis...eventually your pooch will try waking you, but well after any cat in the house would take a little nibble...hahaha.
I'm not really buying the basic premise though, which makes me think some meaning got garbled in the reporting stage. After all, if humans are this sensitive to weak magnetic and RF fields, then there may be some truth to the people who claim sensitivity to high voltage lines, WiFi and cell phones...so far that's not clearly demonstrated. I would suspect that this thing is actually generating a small electrical field that is stimulating the brain. Maybe some one of the resident geniuses can offer a better explanation, because I just can't buy what's been written and I won't have access to PNAS to read the original citation until Monday...
Most of the papers I've seen on TMS mention fields of 2-3 Tesla, which is higher than most MRI machines (~1.5 Tesla).
Accidents involving MRI machines have had office furniture FLYING across rooms:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/19/health/19magnet.html?ex=1282104000&en=d39f1b92e0056844&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
While I don't know the field strength of the equipment used by this researcher, in general I would not characterize the fields being used as "weak" :-)