A physical analysis of the ion parametric resonance model.

Bioelectromagnetics

Department of Physics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06516, USA.

Published: June 1998

We show, in elementary terms, using for the most part only elementary mathematics, the physical bases for the ion parametric resonance model so as to clarify the assumptions and consequences of the model. The analysis shows why, contrary to earlier conclusions, no combination of weak DC and AC magnetic fields can modify the transition rate to the ground state of excited ions. Although reinterpretations of the biological consequences of the motion of the excited ions circumvent that particular objection to the model, those changes introduce other difficulties. Also, other objections to the mechanism still stand; hence the model cannot account for any purported biological effects of weak extremely low frequency magnetic fields.

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