WEBVTT - Watch Stoppers 0:00:03.120 --> 0:00:06.000 Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind from how Stuff 0:00:06.000 --> 0:00:14.400 Works dot com. Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind. 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:16.960 My name is Robert Lamb and I'm Julie Douglas. Julie, 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:21.320 have you destroyed any watches recently with your electromagnetic field? 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:26.880 Not recently, but yeah, I have laid waste to several. See. 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:29.319 Now this was a fairly new thing to me. My 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:31.520 sister Lucy brought this up to to me. She said, 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:33.960 have you guys ever looked into this? This, uh, this 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:38.280 idea that some people cannot wear watches because the watches 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:41.280 always stop and uh, you know, they'll they'll they'll try 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:43.200 out of risk watch. Within a few weeks, it stops, 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:46.040 get another one, it stops. And they are essentially a 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:51.040 person who cannot wear them for some natural or supernatural reason. 0:00:51.360 --> 0:00:54.160 But you've been you've been experiencing this your entire lot. Yeah. Well, 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:56.440 I mean, to be fair, I'm not really someone who 0:00:56.440 --> 0:00:59.440 wears watches, and and so when I did wear them, 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:01.600 and it's been years now, um, I would go to 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:04.200 put them on and then they wouldn't work. Fairly recently 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:07.679 after I put them on. Now memory is fuzzy, and 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:11.800 I will say that if you don't wear your watches regularly, 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:15.000 then you're probably apt to put one on that's going 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:17.360 to die of the batteries about to conk out. So 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:20.520 that could definitely be an explanation, but it could be 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:25.240 that I have a crazy electro magnetic field rating radiating 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:28.800 outward and just shutting everything down. It's what do you think? 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:32.080 Well as well discuss I tend to air on the 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:36.959 side of skepticism, but but it's a fascinating copy because 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:39.640 it is because it's I mean, there's a little bit 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:42.080 of science mixed in here, a little bit of pseudoscience, 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:45.440 a little just a bit of just basic psychology going on. 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:48.600 Like one thing that instantly comes to mind when someone says, oh, 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:50.919 I can't wear watches because when I wear them, they break, 0:01:51.080 --> 0:01:53.720 It kind of reminds me of someone saying, oh, I 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:55.720 don't eat spinach because I don't like it. And then 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:57.200 you want to ask, well, when it is the last 0:01:57.200 --> 0:01:59.920 time you had spinach? Did you have spinach like once 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:02.080 when you were five and then you boughtened into this 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:04.080 idea that you don't like it? Or is it like 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:06.680 a re recurring thing where every time you try spinach 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:09.200 every day you don't like it. I mean, it's there's 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:11.880 so many factors that come into play with our experience 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:15.280 versus our expectation of the world. It's true. And even 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:18.080 though I know better about the watches, I can't help 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:20.880 but that to sit there and think. But I even 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:25.519 got an oscillating watch, and that one also died. Um so, 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:28.440 But it's true. That's why I think this is so interesting. 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:32.400 And there's there's a really good observation by Slate writer 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:36.080 Juliette Lapotitos in her article Really a man can't become 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:40.080 a magnet on why watch stopping? This myth of watch 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:44.080 stopping is so pervasive. She says, quote it's both scientific 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:48.520 seeming since magnetic fields can, after all, interfere with electrical devices, 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:53.400 and vaguely magical, since magnetic forces operate invisibly. The best 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:56.600 of both worlds for people who aren't entirely satisfied by 0:02:56.600 --> 0:03:01.680 a materialistic worldview but aren't willing to reject materialism out right. Yeah, 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:04.840 And it's kind of it's science e superstition, you know, 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:06.720 and it gives you a you can sort of fool 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:10.160 yourself into believing it because it sounds possible, right, I mean, 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:12.040 they're on the surface of things until you start looking 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:14.200 a little deeper. Well, yeah, I mean, especially when you 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:17.200 consider that a magnetic field is produced whenever an electrical 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:21.679 charge is in motion, right, and then we are electrical creatures. 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:24.480 I mean, the experience of the world that we're having 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:26.600 right now are our thoughts. Everything. I mean, this is 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:29.120 this is electronic in nature. I mean, essentially, we're a 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:32.000 spark inside of a bunch of meat. It's true because 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:36.000 all of those meat tissues and organs produce specific magnetic fulsations, 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:39.680 and so this is creating this biomagnetic field. So of course, 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:41.800 you know, all of this is really interesting material to 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:44.240 get into. But in order for us to get into it, 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:46.080 the right way to probably just do a little one 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:49.440 on one overview of magnetic field because that in and 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:55.520 of itself is amazing and it's not totally clearly understood 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:58.160 by scientists yet. Right, So what is what is the 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:01.520 magnetic field? What is it admitted by Well, the Earth's 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:04.600 metal core, because it's acting like a giant magnet, and 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:07.600 it's emanating a magnetic field with two poles. Right, You've 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:09.760 got the north pole in your south pole, and then 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:12.920 these two magnetic poles kind of ruffling match where the 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:17.160 planet's geographic north in south poles lie which mark the 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:19.599 access on which they were spins. So everything in between 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:22.800 there is is creating these magnetic fields. And as we 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:25.440 discussed in the Stuff to Blow Your Kid's Mind video series, 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:28.039 I mean this actually ends up protecting the planet. I 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:30.520 means it's highly important just in MS in terms of 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:35.000 a very basic life can exist on Earth level because 0:04:35.000 --> 0:04:36.920 because not every planet is going to have this though, 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:39.920 the core situation has to be just right to make 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:41.640 it happen. Yeah, it's really cool because it's kind of 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:44.400 like an umbrellas shielding us from everything that you know, 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:46.760 deep space and the sun is throwing at us right 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:50.560 Without this, we would be fried meat bags exactly. Wouldn't 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:54.400 have even become off the ground. Yeah. Um, so that's 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:57.160 kind of you know, quick insight and how it's working, 0:04:57.520 --> 0:05:00.880 you know, at least um on our planet. But I 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:03.480 wanted to also talk a little bit more about the 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:07.360 magnetic field and how humans and animals use them, because 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:10.800 this again is something that is still trying to be 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:14.279 figured out by scientists. It's still an amazing thing, the 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:17.760 magnetic field being able to orient something like the monarch 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:21.320 butterfly in its navigation. Yeah, butterflies are a great example. 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:26.360 Various birds, foxes, animals that use the magnetic field for 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:30.240 navigation purposes. Um, and it continues to be, like you said, 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:33.640 a fascinating research topic because it's for the most part, 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:37.640 something we don't get on a biological level. I mean, 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:40.320 is there is the research shows. I mean there's it's 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:42.919 not like that these creatures are completely alien and completely 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:46.039 dissimilar to us, but they are able to tap into 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:48.320 it and and and and use it in a way 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:52.000 that we cannot. Well, there's no one mechanism that can 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:53.960 point to me and say, oh, this is the reason why, 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:57.520 say a bird or a butterfly can use the magnetic field. 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:01.280 But there is something called cryptochron homes, and these are 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:03.039 a bit of a clue for us. These are a 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:05.960 class of light sensitive proteins found in plants and animals, 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:12.560 flavor proteins even flavor. Yeah, in humans. It's found uh 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:16.520 in the retina, the cryptochrome and uh it's been of 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:19.720 course studied in birds and monarch butterflies. It's very much 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:22.440 a part of circadian rhythms as well. I mean, so 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:25.320 it's it's not something where we can again we can 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:27.760 point to it and say, there you go, this is 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:33.119 this is here exclusively for electromagnetic field sensibility. Yeah, and 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:35.320 if you look at it, we're not gonna go into 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:37.200 it too much because we can do the entire podcast 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:39.239 on it. Really, but if you look at it in birds, 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:44.720 the cryptochromes are really helping to um sort of kick 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:47.960 off this at the quantum level, this whole process and 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:51.640 the light sensitivity and the magnetic field in birds eyes, 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:55.560 and it's these sort of changes that are going on 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:58.120 that helped to detect whether or not the sun is 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:00.599 in this position and the magnetic field is being sensed 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:03.839 in this direction. It's really fascinating. But the thing I 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:07.800 wanted to get to is, uh, Stephen M. Repert. He 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:11.880 is a neurobiologist at the University of Massachusetts Medical School 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:16.080 and his colleagues Lauren Folly and Robert Gieger have been 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:20.440 studying these cryptochromes and they fust around with the genes 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:22.680 of a fly and they found that they fly could 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:26.560 detect magnetic fields, but only when it's cryptochrome gene within 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:29.040 good working order. So that given the clue to say, 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:32.320 this is really important in the detection of magnetic fields, 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:37.160 and flies, by the way, always a good test subject 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:40.840 for various genetic tankering. Yeah. So then the researchers subbed 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:43.280 the fruit flies genes for the monarchs genes and they 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:46.160 found the same thing. Okay, then they said, what about humans? 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:49.640 Of course, uh so one of the monarchs to cryptochrome 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:52.480 genes is similar in its DNA sequence to the human 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:55.880 cryptochrome gene, because we have it as well. So that 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:59.560 prompted the idea of seeing whether the human gene too. 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:02.840 Could we store magnetic sensing to fruit flies whose own 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:05.720 gene had been knocked out? Yea. So they're using the 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:10.360 monarch butterfly genes to fix this disabled fruit fly, and 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:12.040 then they're saying, can we do the same thing, Can 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:15.400 we fix the fruit fly with human cryptochromes? And they did. 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:18.600 So that kind of said, all right, if this exists 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:22.640 in um in a marked butterfly, and this exists in 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:25.960 fruit flies and this helps them to sense the magnetic field, 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:28.800 then certainly there's something going on in the human eye 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:32.360 with these cryptochromes and the magnetic field. So this opened 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:35.280 up this this whole sort of Pandora's box of questions. 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:38.839 Um Repard says, of the cryptochrome and the human eye, 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:42.000 it's beautifully poised to sense light, but we don't know 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:45.960 if it has the downstream pathways that communicate magnetic information 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:50.000 to the brain. The possibility exists. So the question becomes, 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:55.120 you know, are we overstating the cryptochrome and its ability 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:58.240 to sense the magnetic field or did humans once have 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:03.080 a more refined ability to sense the magnetic field with cryptochrome? Yeah? 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:06.440 And to what extent is it possible that we could 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:09.840 in some cases see the magnetic field or at least 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:13.120 in some way since it um, Yeah, I mean it's 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:15.319 in the union of the whole other quandaries about the 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:18.000 possibility of super sers, people who you know, can see 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:20.880 the world a little differently, see extra colors. What if 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:24.240 they can what have a particularly gifted artists is actually 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:28.320 seeing to some degree, uh, this electromagnetism in the world 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:30.679 around them. Well, so I immediately start to think about 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:32.960 trans humanism because it's spent out on our minds a 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:34.520 lot lately, and I thought, well, this is one of 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:36.520 these things that you would want to tinker with. Yeah, why, 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:39.480 I see with our limited vision, when you could you know, 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:43.000 completely turbo charge everything to where you can see in 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:45.920 the electromagnetic spectrum as well. All Right, we're gonna take 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:48.320 a quick break, and when we come back more on 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:53.600 this topic. Alright, we're back. We're talking about our electronic 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:56.880 brains and our meat bodies. We're talking about people who 0:09:56.880 --> 0:10:00.920 wear watches and claim that they're not your coal. Electronic 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:04.680 properties make the watches stop, maybe even fall off their hands. 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:07.240 I tend to imagine it that way, like somebody like 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:09.400 Julie trying to wear a wristwatch and it just stops 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:13.000 and just falls completely off your hand. It just bursts 0:10:13.600 --> 0:10:18.360 into planes. H Well, I mean, okay, so let's get 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:21.400 back to this idea that your brain, your body um 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:25.600 is pulsing with electricity sort of. I mean it is. 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:27.559 I mean, like we said that your thoughts in your head, 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:31.720 this is essentially an electronic um situation, your your nerves. 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:34.800 I mean, these are electronic signals. I really liked this 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:38.680 description from a writer named Ferriss Chopra from Scientific American. 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:42.160 He said, your brain is electric. Tiny impulses constantly raced 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:46.640 among billions of interconnected neurons, generating an electric field that 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:51.080 surrounds the brain like an invisible cloud. That's quite poetic, 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:53.839 but it does talk to this idea that the brain 0:10:54.160 --> 0:11:00.160 is enveloped in these countless overlapping electrical fields and is 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:04.319 generated by the neural circuits of scores of these communicating neurons. 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:08.000 And then, uh, the the idea behind this is that 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:10.880 this week electromagnetic field, because remember it is weak, this 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:16.160 is not a strong EMF here, that this electromagnetic field 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:20.200 actually helps the brain's neurons to fire together. So it 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:22.120 does serve a purpose here. It's not just sort of 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:25.720 generating electricity because it's working so hard. And then, of 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:29.120 course we live in a world where they're just constantly 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:31.439 fields all around us. Are all the devices in our 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:36.280 house pretty much increasingly so? And to your point, if 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:40.160 if when we're capable of stopping a watch with one's 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:44.640 personal electromagnetic field, where would it end where? I mean, 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:47.760 because how many other devices do we have on our 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:50.000 bodies at any given point these days? Yeah, you and 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:51.800 I were talking about it. I mean, the effect of 0:11:51.800 --> 0:11:54.439 the matter is is that we're admitting pretty low levels 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:58.200 of E MF. So if you're gonna destroy a watch 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:01.120 with your crazy strong e m F, then you're going 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:03.679 to destroy everything else in your path. I mean, right now, 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:06.199 I would even be able to record right because I 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:08.920 would be knocking out everything in the space. Would be 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:12.679 like an electronic muggle. I like that. Yeah, yeah, but yeah, 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:16.120 I mean our smartphones are normal phones, um, you know, 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:20.320 little running devices that people have to keep track of 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:25.280 their exercise, various others cybernetic enhancements that create the more 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:27.760 and more into our daily lives. But we can't help 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:30.800 to think that, you know, maybe just maybe there's something 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:34.160 going on, uh with this E m F and our 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:37.160 own little field that we're creating around us. And I 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:40.720 can't help but think of something called the iPod shuffle effect. 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:42.559 Actually I don't know if it's called the effect, but 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:44.880 I'm gonna go ahead and call it now. And that's 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:47.760 this idea that we we begin to see again the 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:51.480 patterns that don't necessarily exist. But if if I keep 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:55.199 putting that watch on, you know, intermittently over a seven 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:58.360 year period and a different watch and they're not working, 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:01.640 than I began to think, right begin suspect that perhaps 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:03.840 something fishy is going on with my own E m F, 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:07.720 Just like if I put my iPod on and it's 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:12.080 still it seems to me to play the same five 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:15.720 songs over and over again from the sound of music. Yeah, 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:18.880 I mean it's similar to the I'm not kidding. And 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:20.840 then some people attach the added level like it's oh, 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:23.160 it's always playing that song When I do this, you 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:24.960 get into that area like oh, if you if you 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:28.240 watch you know, the Wizard of Oz with with the 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:30.560 Pink Floyd playing that it that it matches up that 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:34.120 we end up finding the connections and things. I mean, 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:37.240 we've we've talked to this about about this before. As humans, 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:39.520 we are just always looking for the patterns and things. 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:41.959 We're looking for pattern recognition so that we can figure 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:44.760 out who we are and what we're doing in this world. 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:47.960 And uh, sometimes we crank it up a little too 0:13:48.000 --> 0:13:50.560 far well, and we attach meaning to things. Right, So 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:54.240 in the in terms of the shuffle for for your iPod, 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:57.640 for instance, you're attaching meaning to songs that means something 0:13:57.640 --> 0:14:01.679 to you emotionally, so that sort of amped up, so 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:04.480 your brain is going to pick out that song the 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:08.720 sound of music the album for instance, a little bit 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:11.040 more because it's tuned in because it says, oh, I 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:13.720 remember that that movie of my youth and this is 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:17.480 the song about I don't know, yodeling over hills, and 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:20.560 I get all warm and fuzzy when I hear it. Um, 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:22.960 you know the same thing with an object with a 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:25.400 watch if I go to put it on that you know, 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:29.720 we talked about this with our podcast about objects last week. 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:32.080 Is that you began to really ascribe a lot of 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:35.280 meaning to things. Uh, So you can see why it 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:38.640 would be pretty easy to say, ah, I have this, 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:42.920 I have this going on. In fact, you may have 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:45.680 even if you've ever been suspected that you are a 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:48.600 watch stopper, you might even think that you're someone who 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:52.480 can turn off and on street lights just by walking 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:55.120 by them. Yeah, and this is I feel like we've 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:57.400 all had this happen where you're walking along and you know, 0:14:57.480 --> 0:15:01.360 so that's light went out weird. But and I've never thought, oh, 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:03.600 I must have I must have done that. Like it 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:05.480 seems like that would be awfully self centered to me 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:08.080 to think, oh, wow, a light just went out. That 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:09.920 must have been me. It's the same sort of thing 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:12.560 that thinks, oh that stranger looked over in my direction, 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:15.760 she must think I'm handsome. You know. It's like it's 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:17.320 it's it seems to have there seems to be a 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:20.120 self centeredness to it, that the world revolves around me, 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:22.840 and then I'm somehow affecting things in ways they don't 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:24.880 really well, you know. And if it's late at night 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:27.800 and you know, you're just your heels are clacking against 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:32.440 the concrete and you happen to be approaching a street light, 0:15:32.520 --> 0:15:34.960 it's a very dramatic moment right when it goes out, 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:37.280 and so you began to think, oh, what's going on, 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:42.120 and not thinking, oh, that this sodium bulb is near 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:45.840 it's the end of its life cycle and it's gonna 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:48.440 you know, turn on and off. Well, you know, you 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:51.040 we put ourselves in the you know, the mindset of 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:54.800 our primordical ancestor. I mean when when we're trying to 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:57.040 figure out if something is is a risk or not 0:15:57.120 --> 0:15:59.560 if something is a threat. I mean, it's on one hand, 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:02.200 it could be a could be just coincidence, or it 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:04.440 could be a sign that something bad is going to happen, 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:07.200 and our brains tend to decide with the possibility that 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:11.000 there is a reason behind it. It's true, but your 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:13.320 brain normally doesn't go like, hey, that's that sodium bowl 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:16.880 that high sodium intensity and you know, the city has 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:21.640 been using those lately. UM. But that being said, I 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:24.840 don't want to you know, wholesale poop to the idea 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:28.160 of E MF in general, because, as you have pointed out, 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:32.480 they are surrounding us at all times in various ways. UM. 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:36.240 We get this invisible electromagnetic radiation in the form of 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:41.400 AM and FM radio waves, visible light, microwaves, UM, cell 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:47.400 phone towers, electronics appliances are all radiating and em possibly 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:50.920 as well our cool spring mattress. Yeah. That was an 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:54.520 amazing study that we ran across. And this was this 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:57.600 is from two thousand ten Hawburg Independent Research in Sweden, 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:02.120 UM and also the UH Carol Linska Institute in Sweden, 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:07.040 and they were looking specifically at at what role are 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:11.160 box springs are Western box springs may play in UH 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:14.040 in these electric and electromagnetic fields. Well, this is amplifying 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:16.760 them serving as basically in antenna for all the electro 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:21.200 mantictic fields around us and then transferring them directly into 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:23.000 our bodies while we're sleeping, when then we spend a 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:24.960 lot of time sleeping. Yeah, I mean this is a 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:27.719 real detective story. That's what I love about this study 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:30.280 is that because they came across with this data and 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:33.840 they said, why is the cancer rate uh ten percent 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:37.159 higher in the left breast than in the right. And 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:39.119 this left side bias, by the way, is true for 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:42.120 both men and women, and it applies also to skin 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:46.560 cancer um to melanoma. Okay. But then they found that 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:50.320 in Japan there's no correlation between the rates of melanoma 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:53.280 and breast cancer. Okay, So that said, why, why, what 0:17:53.359 --> 0:17:56.720 could be going on here? So that's when they figured 0:17:56.800 --> 0:18:00.840 out that, yeah, the coils we're actually and this is 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:03.640 I'm gonna go ahead and quote our Douglass fealties from 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:06.480 Scientific American because I think this He lays it out 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:08.679 really well. He says, as we sleep on our coil 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:12.560 spring mattresses in the West, we are in effect sleeping 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:15.600 on an antenna that amplifies the intensity of the broadcast 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:20.360 FM TV radiation. Asleep on these antennas, our bodies are 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:24.639 exposed to the amplified electromagnetic creation. For a third of 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:28.680 our lifespans. As we slumber on a metal coil spring mattress, 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:34.080 a wave of electromagnetic radiation envelops our bodies so that 0:18:34.119 --> 0:18:37.960 the maximum strength of the field develops seventy five above 0:18:38.000 --> 0:18:40.000 the mattress in the middle of our bodies. So what's 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:42.440 going on here? When you're sleeping on the right side, 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:45.440 the body's left side will thereby be exposed to field 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:50.320 strength about twice as strong as what the right side absorbs. Yeah, 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:53.160 and previous research has shown that men and women both 0:18:53.400 --> 0:18:56.159 tend to prefer to sleep on their right side, uh, 0:18:56.200 --> 0:18:59.040 and their various possible reasons for it. For this, one 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:01.800 being that the that if you sleep on your right side, 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:04.360 you're reducing the weight stress on the heart. The heart 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:06.800 is not a heartbeat is not that's allowed? Do I 0:19:06.840 --> 0:19:09.600 sleep on it? Let me see, I tend to sleep 0:19:09.640 --> 0:19:12.760 on my chest at first, and then I then I 0:19:12.800 --> 0:19:17.280 go into a hanging recline position from the ceiling. No. Um, yeah, 0:19:17.320 --> 0:19:19.080 I guess I do. You know, I never really think 0:19:19.080 --> 0:19:20.800 about it. I tend to wake up one way or 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:23.720 the other. Well, I understand the less pressure on your 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:26.480 your heart right sleeping on your right side, But the 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:29.520 whole thing about not being able to hear your heartbeat. Yeah, 0:19:29.600 --> 0:19:31.640 I mean, I've lived next to a train track, so 0:19:32.160 --> 0:19:33.959 I mean I'm used to that. I'm pretty sure I'm 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:35.960 used to my heartbeat and it's for I mean, I've 0:19:35.960 --> 0:19:38.880 never been sleck. Sometimes I'll be sleeping my leg feels 0:19:38.920 --> 0:19:40.679 a little weird, all the cats laying, I mean a 0:19:40.760 --> 0:19:43.600 strange position. But I'm never like, Oh, my heart feels 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:45.680 like it's a bit weird. Maybe I should sift over 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:48.360 so there's less weight on it. I don't know. Well 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:50.240 maybe I just always go to bed with a heavy heart. 0:19:51.000 --> 0:19:55.120 Oh yeah, sorry about that. Um, all right, so you're 0:19:55.119 --> 0:19:57.399 probably saying, like, what's up with Japan? How did they 0:19:57.440 --> 0:20:00.360 figure into all this? Well, yes, in Japan, and most 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:03.040 beds do not have any sort of metal in them, 0:20:03.200 --> 0:20:06.080 so that's one thing. Um. And then their TV broadcasts 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:10.480 and does not use the seven to mega hurts frequency 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:13.560 that's used in western countries. Well, there you go. It's 0:20:13.600 --> 0:20:18.320 a fascinating notion, it is. It is. So that's that's 0:20:18.320 --> 0:20:21.359 a little tidbit about E m F. Again, we could 0:20:21.359 --> 0:20:23.679 go on and on about it because it's fascinating. And 0:20:23.760 --> 0:20:26.520 that's just one sort of example of how you can 0:20:26.600 --> 0:20:31.080 inadvertently create a situation with e mfs. Uh that that 0:20:31.119 --> 0:20:33.600 could be dangerous, But for the most part, we'd like 0:20:33.640 --> 0:20:36.520 to think that we have ms under control. Right, Yeah, yeah, 0:20:36.640 --> 0:20:39.359 pretty much. Now I would like to launch in a 0:20:39.400 --> 0:20:42.399 little more into debunking watch stopping, just talking about some 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:45.040 of the other possible reasons do squash it, just to 0:20:45.200 --> 0:20:47.560 just to squash it a little bit. Uh. First of all, 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:51.440 moisture comes into play, especially with you know, your cheaper watches. 0:20:51.480 --> 0:20:53.879 That's something to keep in mind. It's like, am I 0:20:53.920 --> 0:20:57.760 a am I? Am I a watch stopper or watches 0:20:57.800 --> 0:20:59.399 completely dying on me all the time, and then be 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:01.960 am I swimming with them? On? Am I going out 0:21:01.960 --> 0:21:03.080 in the rain? A lot? I mean, there are so 0:21:03.080 --> 0:21:06.159 many environmental factors. I'm like it, like it or not. 0:21:06.280 --> 0:21:08.720 Technology can break over time, especially if you're putting in 0:21:08.720 --> 0:21:12.240 it in an environment that is detrimental to the technology. 0:21:12.680 --> 0:21:15.200 Also clumsiness, right, just straight up clumsiness. This thing is 0:21:15.240 --> 0:21:18.879 going on your your your wrist, you know. And if 0:21:18.880 --> 0:21:20.800 you're like me, you talk with your hands. If you're 0:21:20.840 --> 0:21:23.520 like me, you sometimes like just are waving your hands 0:21:23.560 --> 0:21:25.119