THE PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION (EMR)

BÁLINT MÍRA, GODÓ BALÁZS LEVENTE, FEDOR LILI ZSUZSANNA, KOVÁCS ZSOMBOR

With the invention of new electric devices came new physical challenges for the environment
and for the people to handle. Moreover, the emission of these new devices show a growing ten-
dency as they get more and more suitiable for heavy duty and use bigger frequencies. Therefore,
the diversity of both electric devices and living organisms doesn’t make it easier to examine the
effects of EMR, but it sure does create a never-ending list of experiments for researchers and ma-
kes this field of researchments crucial regarding society’s and the whole nature’s health.
In our experiments our main goal was to get an image about these devices’s emission and
through a variety of experiments we wanted to take a look at some critical points in an organism’s
– beans, mustard seeds and two eucaryotic animal species to be exact – life and how they’re affec-
ted by EMR.
During our experiments we used a heavy-duty WiFi router and a compact fluorescent lamp
as a source of radiation. Then we measured five spots in the same direction with 10 cm gaps from
eachother next to the radiator. The first experiment – we used two objects, bean plants and mus-
tard seeds – consisted of two main parts. The first was the one that determined the amount of the
complication factor, aka. how far we place the plants from the radiator. The second part was the
neutral factor, meaning that we watered the plants with neutral pH water. EMR sped up the process
of their germination, but it also held them back from growing like usual. With this radiation factor
the growth forms a wave-like graph, as there were parts altering where EMR’s effiency was much
more visible than in some other cases. The main conclusion was that the farther we placed a
plant from the radiator, the less the difference was compared to itd normal life cycle.
In the second experiment we examined eucaryotic animals and used the fluorescent lamp
as a radiator. At the beginning they were going crazy, spinning around and bumping into each
other like they’re lost, but after a few minutes passed by, they calmed down and their behaviour
returned to normal. Our observations brought us to the conclusion that EMR has its own effects
on eucaryotic animals too, but they can adapt much better to the changed environment than plants
so that their life cycles can normalize again.
In our last experiment we repeated the previous one with Artemia salina being the object
and – with very similar results to that experiment in hand – came to the same conclusion.
So, to sum up, it’s clearly visible how EMR has effects on organisms. During a shorter expo-
sure, plants showed almost no reaction, but in the case of eucaryotic animals… their acting chan-
ged almost immediately after being exposed to EMR. A loner exposure meant a significant change
for all our objects. The typical way of wave movement was also visible in the plant-experiment.
This way we can establish that EMR has an effect, a significant and negative effect on both simple
and complex organisms.