X-Message-Number: 21249 From: Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 08:12:32 EST Subject: TeraHertz --part1_141.b5f2894.2b8b7440_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit TeraHertz radiations (millimeter and sub-millimeter radio waves) come between ordinary radio wave and infra-red in the electromagnetics spectrum. I have seen two information on that subject: Los Alamos has built a free electron laser working in that domain and ESA (European Space Agency) www.esa.int has built a "camera" able to see such radiations produced by ordinary objects at room temperature. The last quarter 2002 ESA Bulletin has a paper about that instrument, able to see inside a hand covered by a book. I make here some remarks: 1/ It must be possible to get pictures at up to .1 millimeter resolution with this system. 2/Biological tissues are not crystal clear for these radiations, that implies a complex refraction index and so, some non-linearities. These open the way to multi-photons processes, such entanglement. If some tens of photons could be entangled and absorbed at a single site, the resolving power would scale up by the same factor, may be up to the micrometer domain. This is not far from the 200 nanometer scale of synaptic buttons, so that technology could serve as a non invasive brain monitor working at room temperature on a living brain. Some works by NASA have demonstrated that IR radiation have a healing property. It seems IR can activate directly the energy system of mitochondria in cells, so the cell get an energy supplement without food. Entangled THR could work that way on the brain without surgery to implant IR wave guide. There could be some medical applications. Outside that, what about a brain powered by THR? We know that many nerve cells die because of energy shortage in newborns. Would THR make genius? What about THR boosted animals? will your next cat solve differential equations? :-) Yvan Bozzonetti. --part1_141.b5f2894.2b8b7440_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=21249