The Cause and Perception of the Hum overwhelming support for a magnetic hypothesis by Dr Chris Barnes Bangor Scientific and Educational Enterprises   First released into Public Domain August 2012 re-released November 2012 *

 

·         Person or persons unknown had removed my work from the World Wide Web.

·         I believe in Freedom of Speech, particularly Academic expression. The Hum plagues millions throughout the World and I am trying to find a solution.  

·         Why anyone should have gone to the lengths to remove or suppress my work beats me- God if I’m that much of a threat why don’t you offer me a job!!  

 

 

 

A brief summary of properties of the Hum

 

MAP – Heard mainly by middle aged people

NHA – Not heard by all

OOS- On /off switch 

TM – Tone matched at 30-80 Hz

MOD – Quasi periodic Modulations 0.2-5 Hz

RAN- Random geo-sporadic buildings and locations

SAN- Stronger at night

MPNAS- Multiple person perception yet not all same

ESI – Earthquake survivors

FPC – Function of planetary cycles

MSM- Maximises at solar minima

PSAI – Power systems and infrastructure involvement

LCR – Limestone caves relief

CMI – Copper mines   intensify

MSI –Individuals who hear/perceive are magnetically sensitive individuals in other settings such as under power lines or to PWM pulses from car electrical systems

ABB- Amplified by buildings and double glazing

DWLE- Open Doors and Windows have little if any effect

SBR –Sensitisation by radio

CBV – Cancelling noise by moving vehicles

QME – Quantum mechanical effects

There are several theories as to the cause and mechanism of perception of the Hum

 

Causal

In Britain in the 1970’s Fox ascribed the cause to motorways and gas mains i.e. LFN and infrasound. Scientists at Southampton University   and Salford University, Geoff Leventhall, have been studying the Hum for upwards of forty years and have made little, if any progress. 

 

In the USA in the early 1990’s Professor David Deming suggested that the Hum correlates in space and time with a certain kind of military communications aircraft known as TCAMO.

 

Amateur UK Hum investigator John Dawes has suggested the cause of the Hum is one involving electro-gravity wherein the power grid modulates the earth’s gravitational field.

 

Presently in the USA there are two schools of thought. One suggests that the Hum is due to LFN form high pressure LNG pipes and compressors.     The other that the Hum is due to a combination of 60 Hz and microwaves from the Smart Grid and Power Line Broadband systems.  

 

The present author has considered mixes of infrasound and acoustic sound as prime movers of the Hum but his research has showed that the Hum in most cases ( he coins a phrase Hum type 3) is far more than just a noise.   He has found that when he by personal experience perceives the Hum worst there are detectable at his premises strong magnetic comb spectra with a fundamental frequency of approximately 4 Hz.  Further   sensitisation to the Hum appears to happen after exposure to radio emissions   and its appearance it some locations is linked with the quantum mechanical  phenomena known as the electromagnetic Aharonov—Bohm Effect

 

The author has recently advanced a theory which although quite complex fully explains all the facets of the Hum. Basically the theory allows for a mixing or modulation of power systems frequencies with natural PC1 magnetic pulsations of the earth and its magnetosphere.  Seismic conversion of these magnetic signals can also occur into sound and vibration can also occur in certain types of rock, building and sub-strata.

 

 

Perception

It is common sense that for any theory of generation of the Hum as a real external signal to hold there must be an equivalent mechanism of bio-detection and perception in those afflicted individuals. 

 

Mechanisms of perception of Hum arising from Infrasound, Gravity modulation and Magnetic processes are all a distinct possibility. Human hearing does not simply cease at 30 Hz but continues down to much lower frequencies albeit with diminished sensitivity.   The human organ of balance is a complex gravity detector.  Deposits of various kinds of bio-magnetite have been found in all kinds of living species including humans which could facilitate magnetic hearing.  Bio-calcite a piezoelectric material could facilitate electromagnetic or electric field detection.

 

Matching all the properties of the Hum

 

One asks oneself the question which theory of Hum generation and perception matches the most or even all of the properties of the Hum.  Remarkably it is the author’s magnetic hypothesis, see Table 1 below:  

 

 

 

 

MAP

NHA

OOS

TM

MOD

RAN

SAN

MPNAS

ESI

FPC

MSM

PSAI

LCR

CMI

MSI

ABB

DWLE

CBV

SBR

QME

TOT

I

I

I

I

I

I

I

I

I

I

I

I

I (P)

I PT

15

G

G

G?

G?

G

G

G

G

G

9

M

M

M

M

M

M

M

M

M

M

M

M

M

M

M

M

M

M

M

M

20

 

Table 1

 

 

 

 

Results and Discussion

 

The Hum is mainly heard by middle aged persons (MAP). All three theories of the Hum are equally valid here.   If the Hum were purely infrasound maybe the ear gets more sensitive at low frequencies as we get older to compensate for hearing loss at higher frequencies.  If the ear contains bio-crystals which facilitate gravity modulation detection or magnetic detection, they will deposit over time and this could account for the age group of hearers.   

 

Similarly the fact that the Hum is not heard by all (NHA) does not favour any one theory over another.  Genetic and age variation could be sufficient to account for observations.

 

The Hum is often reported has having a distinct ON/OFF switch   (OOS) or sometimes to fade in and out. This could be caused by characteristics of infrasound propagation or characteristics of PC1 pulsations.

 

The Hum is often tone matched (TM) between 30-80 Hz yet nothing can be   audio recorded on these frequencies.   Infrasound has frequencies below this band so this would favour a Gravity or Magnetic version of the Hum. 

 

Quasi –periodic modulations (MOD) of the Hum at .2-5 Hz are matched exactly by the frequencies found in the PC1 pulsation band.  Similar oscillations in air pressure are also known to affect meteo-sensitive  individuals but these do not span so high in frequency.   There is thus predominant suppose for the magnetic hypothesis here.

 

The Hum is highly geo-sporadic and random (RAN).   Gravity and power systems are virtually everywhere so it is difficult to explain using a gravity theory   why the Hum is not everywhere.   Infrasound does just stop dead at some locations and not others but is a propagating wave although stationary waves, refraction and diffraction could account for why the Hum is stronger at some locations than others.  A magnetic Hum will depend heavily on the underlying rock type and the propagation of PC1 magnetic pulsations to earth depends heavily upon a number of almost random space physics factors. Both can adequately account for the randomness and geo-sporadic behaviour of the Hum   compounded by periods of overload and harmonic generation in power systems.   

 

The Hum is often described as being stronger at night (SAN).  This favours either infrasonic or magnetic theories of the Hum. Most but not all PC1 events occur at night.  

 

When groups of Hummers are gathered together multiple perception of the phenomenon can occur (MPNAS) but people’s descriptions of what they perceive are subjective. This favours no particular theory of the Hum.

 

Many Hum hearers are earthquake survivors (ESI).   All three energy fields exist and are perturbed in an earthquake so this favours no particular model of the Hum but sensitisation may occur at this point?

 

The Hum is known to be a complex function of planetary cycles (FPC).  This is true only of PC1 pulsations. This strongly favours the magnetic hypothesis of the Hum. 

 

The Hum maximises at solar minimum (MSM). The number of new cases of the Hum in reported in different countries over the past few decades always seems to maximise at solar minima. PC1 outbreaks are 6-10% more prevalent at solar minima and so is airborne ultrasound due to in coming gamma ray bursts.

 

All hum researchers except Deming are confident that there is both power system and other infrastructure involvement in the Hum (PSAI) .  These involvements do not favour any particular theory of the Hum.  

 

The author has recently looked at the effects of limestone caves and copper mines on Hummers. Only the magnetic hypothesis of the Hum can account for these reported anecdotal effects.  

 

Magnetically sensitive individuals hear the Hum. Magnetically sensitive individuals also perceive a Hum like effect from slow PWM pulses associated with car electrical systems and underneath certain power lines.  . Only the magnetic hypothesis of the Hum can account for these effects which the author and his wife have first hand experience of and to which the author has received supporting anecdotal reports of other individuals.

 

  The Hum is amplified by buildings (ABB).  Infrasound generated by rocks under a building as a result of magneto-seismic action could cause this effect.  Buildings contain numerous pipes and wires which can conduct electromagnetic fields.

 

Open doors and windows have little effect upon the Hum (DWLE).  In an infrasonic Hum   doors and windows are probably of too small a fraction of a wavelength to be relevant, although some chimneys could possibly act as Helmholtz resonators.  Such opening would not be expected to change of magnetic Hum or a gravity based Hum.

 

The authors’ residence is near to a very large corrugated steel sports hall and to lots of power systems infrastructure.   The author has noticed the Hum is also very intense at a nearby country location which has a large corrugated steel barn and power systems infrastructure.  The presence of so much magnetic material favours a magnetic Hum.   Finally, only a magnetic Hum would show quantum mechanical intensification at certain key distances from radio transmitters   in accord with the electromagnetic Aharonov—Bohm Effect.  

 

 

 

 

Conclusion

 

The results overwhelmingly favour the author’s magnetic theory of Hum generation and perception with all 20 of the known characteristic criteria of the Hum being explainable in terms of this theory.      Only 15/20 points of the criteria are explainable by an infrasonic Hum and only 9 by a gravitational Hum. That is not to say infrasound generation cannot happen alongside a magnetic Hum and may indeed   partly aid   perception   by synaesthesia, nor is to say that strong electric fields from power lines do not modulate gravity or that gravity anomalies are not often measurable alongside rock strata which also show magnetic anomaly.       It is simply to say that the model which most elegantly fits all the observable facts in the magnetic model.   This could now open up hope that a cure or screening for Hummers could somehow be developed.

 

The model will only be properly confirmed by access to a survey of literally hundreds or preferably thousands of Hummers.  This could be best organised by a grant award and a period of University research.   Think what this could bring if one unfunded individual Scientist with a passion and drive for explaining this paradoxical and tantalising phenomenon has gotten so far with so little.  

 

 

 

Acknowledgments

 

I gratefully acknowledge input from my wife Gwyneth, my son Dwain, my former work colleague Stuart and the dozen or so Hum sufferers from England, Wales and the USA who have been in regular contact with me.