Can Resonant Oscillations of the Earth Ionosphere Influence the Human Brain Biorhythm? V.D. Rusov1,∗ K.A. Lukin2, T.N. Zelentsova1, E.P. Linnik1, M.E. Beglaryan1, V.P. Smolyar1, M. Filippov1 and B. Vachev3 1Department of Theoretical and Experimental Nuclear Physics, Odessa National Polytechnic University, Ukraine 2Institute for Radiophysics and Electronics, NASU, Kharkov, Ukraine 3Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Sofia, Bulgaria Abstract Within the frames of Alfv´ensweep maser theory the description of morphological features of geomagnetic pulsations in the ionosphere with frequencies (0.1-10 Hz) in the vicinity of Schumann resonance (7.83 Hz) is obtained. It is shown that the related regular spectral shapes of geomagnetic pulsations in the ionosphere determined by "viscosity" and "elasticity" of magneto-plasma medium that control the nonlinear relaxation of energy and deviation of Alfv´enwave energy around its equilibrium value. Due to the fact that the frequency bands of Alfv´enmaser resonant structures practically coincide with the frequency band delta- and partially theta-rhythms of human brain, the problem of degree of possible impact of electromagnetic "pearl" type resonant structures (0.1-5 Hz) onto the brain bio-rhythms stability is discussed. Keywords: Ionospheric Alfv´enresonator (IAR); ELF waves; cosmic rays; magnetobiological effect (MBE) in cell; brain diseases statistics PACS: 87.50.C-, 87.53.-j, 94.20.-y, 94.30.-d 1 Introduction cally new fundamental properties of spatial-temporal structure of eukaryotic genome, but also refers to Lately Nobelist L. Montagnier's group has published studying of equally important issues that are related to three articles deeply challenging the standard views exogenous nature of <7 Hz ELF waves impact directly about genetic code and providing strong support for onto a human brain and its biorhythms. the notion of water memory [1{3]. In a series of del- It is well known that the brain neurons constitute icate experiments [1,2] they demonstrated the possi- different types of networks that interact by means bility of the emission of low-frequency electromagnetic of electrical signals. Neuron networks configurations Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) waves from bacte- comprise electrical circuits of oscillatory type. Elec- rial DNA sequences and the apparent ability of these trical oscillations with different frequencies correspond waves to organize nucleotides (the "building" mate- to different states of brain. These oscillations could be rial of DNA) into new bacterial DNA by mediation of detected by brain electroencephalogram. structures within water [4]. Numerous investigations have shown that electri- Without going into details of physical justification cal oscillations of different frequencies dominate in a of quantum-field interpretation of these results1, let us arXiv:1208.4970v1 [physics.gen-ph] 23 Aug 2012 healthy human being brain at its different states [6,7]. emphasize one significant experimental result of this Transitions between brain activities happen not con- group. This result is related to stable detection of ELF tinuously, but only in discrete steps, from one level waves (<7 Hz) from bacterial DNA sequences. Obvi- to another. The rest state corresponds to the stead- ously, if the result is reproduced in similar experiments iest alpha-rhythm with frequencies laying within the of another research groups, the unique importance of frequency band from 8 to 13 Hz. beta-rhythm with this fact is difficult to overestimate in understanding boundary frequencies 14-35 Hz corresponds to brain of living matter essence. work. The slowest oscillations at frequencies 0.5-4 Hz First of all, it concerns not only research of drasti- are typical for delta-rhythm which corresponds to deep sleep. At last, theta-rhythm with frequencies from 4 ∗Cooresponding author e-mail: [email protected] 1New Scientist reacted by sharp article "Scorn over claim of to 7 Hz dominates in the brain if the state of nuisance teleported DNA" [5]. or danger appears. V.D. Rusov et al. "Pearls" and Human Brain Biorhythm 2 At the same time it is known [8{12] that the weak other words, if the life (thermalization) time of cer- magnetic fields impact on biological systems is a sub- tain degrees of freedom interacting with field quanta ject of the biophysics section called magnetobiology. is larger than the system's characteristic time of life, It studies the biological reactions and mechanisms of then such degrees of freedom exist in the absence of the weak fields action. Magnetobiology is a part of temperature proper. Therefore, a comparison of their a general fundamental problem of the biological effi- energy changes due to field quanta absorption with kT ciency of the weak and ultraweak physicochemical fac- has no sense" [14]. The candidates for the solution of tors, which operate below the biological defense mech- this problem today are the mechanism of the molecule anisms threshold, and so may be accumulated on a quantum states interference for the idealized protein subcelluar level. cavity [9, 14] and the mechanism of the molecular gy- It is necessary to note here that there is no accept- roscope interference [9, 15]. able physical understanding of the way the weak mag- Turning back to experiment, let us examine the pos- netic fields cause the living systems reaction [9] so sible physical causes of the low-frequency geomagnetic far, although it has been experimentally found that fields generation and the consequences of their impact such fields may change the biochemical reactions rate on the eucaryotic cells in short. sharply in a resonance-like way [9, 13]. The physical It is well known that Earth's atmosphere between nature of this phenomenon is still unclear, and it forms dense ionized shell called ionosphere (at an altitude one of the most important, if not a general, problem of 100 km) and Earth's surface, possesses the elec- of magnetobiology which includes the co-called "kT tromagnetic resonant properties (Fig.1[16]). Hence, problem". resonances of the spherical cavity "Earth's surface The problem consists in the fact that the weak mag- - ionosphere" manifest themselves in electromagnetic netic field energy (say, geomagnetic filed) of the same quasi-monochromatic signals that permanently present order as the kT heat energy is distributed over the nearby Earth's surface and has certain impact onto volume 12 orders of magnitude larger (which approx- the Earth's biosphere. Among resonances of this type imately corresponds to a cell size). In such form the in the frequency band between (0.1-10) Hz the most problem of the biological impact of the low-frequency known and studied is the so called Schumann reso- magnetic oscillations has two aspects[9]: nance at the frequency of 7.83 Hz. This resonance is observed for electromagnetic waves with the wave- • what is a mechanism of the weak low-frequency length exactly equal to the Earth's circle. Schumann magnetic signal transformation that causes the resonance has drawn attention of physicians practi- changes on the biochemical processes level of kT cally immediately after its discovery in connection with order? studying of impact of electromagnetic radiation onto the alpha-rhythms of human brain which lie within the • what is a mechanism of such stability, i.e. how 8-13 Hz frequencies band. do such small impacts not get lost on the heat disturbances of kT order background? Thunderstorms feed the Schumann resonator eter- nally. Initial frequency spectrum of electrical dis- Not going into details of this complex and funda- charges (lightnings) during thunderstorms represents mental problem, the essence of which is expounded in practically white noise. The resonant systems of near- review by [9], let us note that in spite of the stated Earth space filter out corresponding parts of the spec- magnetobiology difficulties, there are serious reasons trum which is shown in Fig.2[17]. to believe that the main features of the magnetobio- Ionospheric Alfv´enResonator (IAR) is being consid- logical effect are reliably established in numerous ex- ered along with Schumann resonator as a near-Earth periments and tests and are reproducible on differ- resonant system, as well. In particular, with the help of ent experimental models and under different magnetic IAR it was possible to explain new resonant radiation conditions. On the other hand, the answers to the in the frequency band of 0.1-10 Hz [18]. This radia- above-mentioned questions "lie" in the nonequilibrium tion was discovered in 1985 and characterized by quasi- thermodynamics field. "It is generally known that periodic modulation (within frequency range of 0.5-3 metabolism in living systems is a combination of pri- Hz) of the oscillations. This modulation appears above mary non-equilibrium processes. The origin and break- the background noise electromagnetic spectrum of the down of biophysical structures at time smaller than the atmosphere and has regular daily variation (Fig.2). It time of thermalization of all degrees of freedom in these is not difficult to show [18], that within the frame of structures provide a good example of systems that are IAR model the resonant frequency fres of these oscilla- far from equilibrium where even weak field quanta can tions is defined by ionosphere layer thickness l, Earth's be manifested in system's breakdown parameters. In magnetic field strength HEarth, and concentration n of V.D. Rusov et al. "Pearls" and Human Brain Biorhythm 3 (a) (b) solar protons loss cone (a) amplitude amplitude radiation belt wave packet 05.02.86, tMosc = 02.00 14.09.95, tMosc = 02.00 e height, km n i l 0 10 0 10 frequency, Hz frequency, Hz d l e i (b) f c i 1000 t e shpe n iono re g a (c) (d) sp m 300 atmo here Earth 100 102 104 106 -3 amplitude electron density, cm amplitude 100 km 900 km 04.02.86, tMosc = 16.00 13.09.95, tMosc = 16.00 0 frequency, Hz 10 0 frequency, Hz 10 Figure 1: Earth and surrounding electromagnetic resonant ob- jects (adapted from [16, 17]).