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Right about now you must be thinking this program is slowly going from normal detox advice into tinfoil hat hypochondriasis…
There might be some truth to that, but there might also be some truth to what I’m about to share with you right now. In fact, I think there is, and I think there is good evidence for it.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to put on my teaching hat for a few pages, because I don’t want you coming out of here thinking some forms of radiation can be harmful… without even knowing what radiation is.
If you’re familiar with the basics of electromagnetism, feel free to skip the following section. Otherwise, you’re more than welcome to buckle up as we discuss electromagnetic radiation, also known as EMR.
Whenever you throw a pebble into a body of water, their interaction creates waves that propagate outwards.
These waves will vary depending on how big and heavy the pebble is, how fast it falls, the particular viscosity of the water (as a result of its content and/or temperature), the local atmospheric pressure, etc.
Yet, at any moment during this wave propagation, water itself is not actually moving outwards, away from the epicenter. If you were to isolate any particular water molecule participating in a wave, it would “simply” be moving up and down, slower and slower as time passed until it remained still, awaiting the next pebble.
So, it is the way all water molecules orchestrate this up-and-down (oscillating) motion that makes a wave emerge on the surface of the water.
It’s fundamentally no different than when football fans make a wave across a stadium: none of them are traveling in the direction of the wave, yet the wave itself travels across all of them.
This wave phenomenon happens all the time, across all sorts of mediums (i.e., channels).
Water waves unfold across water.