Going Somewhere
from the Epilogue…
Excerpts
When Herman Schwan told me environmental EMFs could not cause disease I took what he said as a riddle, considering that I had simulated environmental EMFs in my laboratory and found they affected the metabolism of animals, a fact I interpreted to mean EMFs probably also affected the metabolism of people, from which I drew an inference that at least some of the metabolic effects would be harmful and that, if so, environmental EMFs could cause disease. I was confident in my belief that the kind of science I had just mastered, the platonic form of physics, could lead to an explanation for everything that happened in the world, so I tried to resolve the riddle according to the rules, by means of definitive experiments that produced consistent results. But no two experiments agreed exactly. At first I thought the inconsistencies arose from experimental errors, conspicuous or otherwise—reflections in the mirror of my own inadequacy. But everyone else’s experiments—neglecting those of the herd that belonged to the masters—were also inconsistent. After talking and listening to many people, some honest and some not, I realized that the so-called inconsistencies were themselves consistent and therefore real because if the same thing happens each time an experiment is repeated, then nature has spoken and it remains only to ferret out the meaning of the answer, like a Delphic oracle.
