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Address to the Royal Society – The Truth Hertz

Madam President, Fellows, and honoured guests,

When James Clerk Maxwell stood in this city and revealed a unified theory of electricity, magnetism, and light, he changed human destiny. Yet in the long arc of discovery there is always a reckoning. Tonight I ask us to face the reckoning of Maxwell’s unintended offspring: the global mantle of man‑made, non‑ionising electromagnetic fields—what I shall call entropic waste.

1 From lightning to lanterns—and beyond

At the dawn of the nineteenth century the great killers of children were typhus, dysentery, and diphtheria. With clean water and antibiotics we buried those foes; vaccination spared still more. By every classical metric life expectancy rose.

But peer beneath the headline and we find another ledger:

  • one child in three now develops a chronic condition;

  • autism, almost unknown before the radio age, is today diagnosed in one child in thirty‑six in my own country;

  • autoimmune diseases have exploded four‑fold in two generations;

  • sperm counts across the industrial world have fallen by more than fifty per cent since the first mobile phone call.

These numbers do not lie. Something in the modern environment is un‑writing the biological code even as medicine extends the clock.

2 The “Goldilocks cavity” we forgot

Planet Earth is not merely a rock with an atmosphere; it is an electrical resonator—a spherical cavity whose walls are the ground beneath our feet and the ionosphere above our heads. For billions of years that cavity vibrated gently at about eight hertz, the Schumann resonance, a signal so steady it paces human brain waves and circadian clocks.

In 1887 Heinrich Hertz walked into that cavity with kilovolt spark gaps and filled his laboratory with new, violent harmonics. He recorded “pressure in the head” and died at thirty‑six of a vasculitis we now call GPA. The industrial powers of the day saw only opportunity. Within one human lifetime they had scaled Hertz’s sparks from watts to hundreds of kilowatts that crackled above Berlin, London, and New York.

For the first time in planetary history, the background chatter inside the cavity rivalled the quiet geomagnetic heartbeat that had shepherded all prior evolution.

3 Mechanism, not mystery

Modern biology tells us exactly how that chatter harms:

  1. Voltage‑gated calcium channels—nature’s on‑off switches—are electrically sensitive. Even microwatts of erratic RF open them.

  2. Once open, they flood the cytoplasm with calcium, lighting the fuse to a reactive‑oxygen cascade inside mitochondria and across the cell membrane.

  3. Reactive oxygen species, in excess, oxidise DNA, lipids, and proteins—corrupting the cell’s bookkeeping. Whether the error later appears as cancer, lupus, or a child who never learns to speak depends only on which tissue’s ledger fails first.

This is not speculation. Two dozen in‑vivo studies reverse the damage when a calcium‑channel blocker is applied. The largest animal study ever run by the U.S. National Toxicology Program reported “clear evidence” of cancer. More than a thousand peer‑reviewed papers now document RF‑induced oxidative stress.

4 Why the timeline fits

Critics argue that correlation is not causation, yet the chronology is brutally simple:

  • Hertz—single laboratory, single victim, 1880s.

  • Imperial naval spark stations—dozens of operators, first clusters of strange granulomas, 1900s.

  • Urban broadcast masts—millions of civilians, first named cases of GPA and early‑onset dementia, 1930s.

  • Global mobile and Wi‑Fi—billions of handsets, pandemic levels of neuro‑developmental and metabolic disorders, today.

Each new power threshold is followed, one generation later, by a new public‑health burden. The agent did not change; only its reach did.

5 A civilisational decision point

If we can phase out leaded petrol, ban chlorofluorocarbons, and land probes on Titan, we can certainly do the following:

  • Remove microwave routers from nurseries and classrooms; use fibre and light‑based (Li‑Fi) links instead.

  • Place high‑power transmitters off‑planet, where Starlink already proves data can arrive without drilling towers into playgrounds.

  • Restore local authority over antenna siting: the United Kingdom once led public‑health reform; let it lead again.

  • Fund independent, chronic‑exposure biology before—not after—each spectrum auction. Science first, revenue second.

These measures do not kill innovation; they civilise it. They shift entropy back out of the biological band where life’s code must remain pristine.

6 A vision reclaimed

We live in an era when gene editing promises to cure cystic fibrosis and quantum sensors promise to detect earthquakes. By every technological measure our children should—must—aim to live longer than the mythic patriarchs. What stands in the way is not divine decree but an invisible fog of our own making.

We cannot negotiate with oxidative chemistry; we can only remove its trigger. We removed pump‑handle grips in cholera outbreaks; we can relocate microwave handles now.

7 Closing

Maxwell’s equations are perfect; our application of them has been rash. Let the Royal Society, cradle of empiricism, be first to declare that the human Schumann cavity is part of Earth’s critical habitat and that its poisoning with artificial harmonics is incompatible with the future of intelligent life.

If we act with the urgency our data demand, the children born this decade may yet inherit a world where lifespan is limited only by imagination, not by avoidable entropy.

Madam President, Fellows, I thank you for your patience—and I invite you to lead the course correction history will one day call obvious.