Title:A Novel Model of Interaction Between High Frequency Electromagnetic Non-Ionizing Fields and Microtubules Viewed as Coupled Two-Degrees of Freedom Harmonic Oscillators
VOLUME: 15 ISSUE: 6
Author(s):Luigi Maxmilian Caligiuri
Affiliation:Foundation of Physics Research Center (FoPRC), Via Resistenza, Celico (CS), Italy.
Keywords:Biological effects of electromagnetic fields, Coupled oscillators, Microtubules, Modes of oscillation, Natural frequencies,
Resonance.
Abstract:The question regarding the potential biological and adverse health effects of non-ionizing electromagnetic
fields on living organisms is of primary importance in biophysics and medicine. Despite the
several experimental evidences showing such occurrence in a wide frequency range from extremely low
frequency to microwaves, a definitive theoretical model able to explain a possible mechanism of interaction
between electromagnetic fields and living matter, especially in the case of weak and very weak intensities,
is still missing. In this paper it has been suggested a possible mechanism of interaction involving
the resonant absorption of electromagnetic radiation by microtubules. To this aim these have been modeled
as non-dissipative forced harmonic oscillators characterized by two coupled “macroscopic” degrees
of freedom, respectively describing longitudinal and transversal vibrations induced by the electromagnetic field. We have
shown that the proposed model, although at a preliminary stage, is able to explain the ability of even weak electromagnetic
radiating electromagnetic fields to transfer high quantities of energy to living systems by means of a resonant mechanism,
so capable to easily damage microtubules structure.
