Quiz 1

Question 1

Humans can conduct electricity efficiently under certain conditions such as _________ because we are _________

Answer 1

with the insertion of acupuncture needles

semiconductors

Question 2

Radioactivity results from the balance between __________

Answer 2

electrical forces within atoms interacting with the strong nuclear force

Question 3

What types of atoms show destabilization of nuclei? Why?

Answer 3

Large atoms e.g. uranium

strong nuclear force weakens considerably relative to distance while electrical force does not

Question 4

Who were the historical figures responsible for developing the portrayal of the mechanical nature of physical reality?

Answer 4

Aristotle
Copernicus
Galileo
Isaac Newton

Question 5

Why are comets no longer referred to as “dirty snowballs”?

What is the new nature of their electrical reality?

Answer 5

Comets are chunks of highly electronegative iron with magnetic potential. When they approach the sun (electropositive) there are plasma-like discharges between the two that create luminescence of comets

Question 6

What are the properties of plasma? How does it relate to our sun?

Answer 6

Plasma is an electrified gas - it readily conduct electric current, absorbs radiation that passes unhindered through gas and can be influenced by electrical and magnetic fields

The sun is a ball of plasma. Since plasma conducts electric current it is postulated that electrical current is transferred between the sun to other stars

Question 7

What events occurred during the early 20th century that limited the continuation of bioelectromagnetism in medicine? In what year did biomedicine reject bioelectomagnetism in the healing arts?

Answer 7

Flexner Report

1910