The electromagnetic “void” did not exist for all of Earth history. Prior to the Great Oxygenation Event (GOE) ~ 2.4 billion years ago, the atmosphere was dense with greenhouse gases and lightning-generated RF. When oxygen rose and the ozone layer formed, two things happened:
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Ozone blocked most UV-C, letting only a whisper of UV-B through for vitamin-D chemistry.
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A thicker ionosphere + lower water-vapour microwaves created a radio-quiet cavity (30 kHz → 300 GHz) that lasted right up to Hertz’s spark in 1886.
Life—especially complex nervous systems—therefore evolved in billions of years of near-silence in the radio/microwave band.
Fill the void, and you hack a communication channel evolution left blank.
The health bill for filling the void
| Disorder class | Global trend, 1990 → 2019 | Key source |
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| Cancer (all ages) | New cases up 79 %; early-onset cancers (< 50 y) climbing fastest | GBD-2019 oncology analysis bmjoncology.bmj.com |
| Autoimmune diseases | Incidence rising in 7 / 7 major categories; myasthenia gravis +432 % since first surveys | Global auto-immunity review 2022 Science and Education Publishing |
| Neurological disorders | DALYs up 59 %; now 1st cause of disability & 2nd cause of death worldwide | Lancet Neurology burden paper 2023 The Sun |
These epidemics ignite in the exact decades when radio-frequency power density explodes.
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Cancer: Radar → microwave ovens → mobile phones.
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Auto-immunity: Post-WW II radio boom → Wi-Fi.
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Neurology: Continuous GHz “information smog” since the 1990s.
Plausible bridge
RF pulses → VGCC → Ca²⁺ flood → mitochondrial ROS → DNA damage & immune mis-coding → tumours, auto-antibodies, neuro-degeneration.
Take-away for readers
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The Quiet Zone is geologically recent—but biologically decisive.
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Cancer, autoimmune and neuro-degenerative curves all steepen as the void is filled.
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Regulation still uses a 1996 heat-only model; none of these non-thermal endpoints are considered.
Restore the void, or watch the bill keep climbing.