Increase in Human Negativity

I was watching Bloomberg and they had some financial manager guy come on talking about the outlook for the next few years, and at the end of the interview he started going on about how he believes solar cycles effect human behavior and correlate to times of war and violence. He said he uses this phenomenon as part of his trading strategy. The presenter just totally ignored what he said and continued as normal. He didn't seem like a nutter, this was regular Bloomberg market news :confused:

It was interesting though because I've been reading about the low sun spot activity and how the electromagnetism effects the earth. Scientists have done tests with putting magnets on people's heads and messing with their thoughts, like this for example:


Did you take the Blue Pill or the Red Pill? How deep is that rabbit hole?
 
"brain is experiencing". I'll think you'll find that any number of things can occur when you apply electric current to the brain. However you are clearly an atheistist and should read your Bible instead of conducting experiments on people who are clearly 'not the full shilling'.

Load of oul balls tbf.
 
kwerk said:
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It was interesting though because I've been reading about the low sun spot activity and how the electromagnetism effects the earth. Scientists have done tests with putting magnets on people's heads and messing with their thoughts, like this for example:

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What if the solar weather is causing a similar effect on all our brains like that dude was saying making society more unstable?
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A small undirected change is very different to a much larger very precisely targetted change.

There are much more plausible explanations for instability in society, such as a global financial crisis, social changes that have decreased social interaction and even familial interaction, increased population movement, concern over resources, over-population (locally, not necessarily globally), etc, etc. There's also the fact that society has always been somewhat unstable.
 
Angilion said:
A small undirected change is very different to a much larger very precisely targetted change.

There are much more plausible explanations for instability in society, such as a global financial crisis, social changes that have decreased social interaction and even familial interaction, increased population movement, concern over resources, over-population (locally, not necessarily globally), etc, etc. There's also the fact that society has always been somewhat unstable.
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Two words fella - Alcohol , Drugs. That's your problem right there.
 
Rainmaker said:
Here's a clip from Through the Wormhole showing how 'morphic fields' (the theory that we are connected via the Earth's magnetic field) are being tested by scientists, with some surprising results. Not 100% related to the OP, but on a similar vein and indirectly part of the same topic. :)
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That video appears to contradict itself rather blatantly. The hypothesis being advanced was that humans can influence each other's brains through a magnetic field, but the two subjects were not in the same magnetic field (the rooms were shielded).
 
Not suprising. While we take pride in our individuality, as a species we still operate as a single organism to some degree, an organism that covers the entire planet. Even the slightest changes in the suns output has dramatic effects on the rest of nature, why wouldn't affect us humans?
 
titaniumx3 said:
Not suprising. While we take pride in our individuality, as a species we still operate as a single organism to some degree, an organism that covers the entire planet. Even the slightest changes in the suns output has dramatic effects on the rest of nature, why wouldn't affect us humans?
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Sun? What's that? Is that like rain we get here during the summer? :D
 
kwerk said:
Sunspots make you do sex
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Waits for someone to use that as self defence.

I’m sure you could correlate the sun spot cycle with many events and events. It’s a case of lies, damned lies and statistics. Come back with some real scientific evidence instead of random quotes.
 
More than likely something to this.

The brain is a very sensitive electrical instrument effectively.

Makes sense that something as powerful as the Sun, and being so close can effect things in our heads.
 
simulatorman said:
Waits for someone to use that as self defence.

I’m sure you could correlate the sun spot cycle with many events and events. It’s a case of lies, damned lies and statistics. Come back with some real scientific evidence instead of random quotes.
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I was thinking the same thing.

2001 - sun spot peak - terrorism activity peak
 
kwerk said:
Few more papers I found, the full texts is hard to find though unless you have a copy of "Science" from 1928.

Source:
Science, 67, 1928. pp. 397.

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This is the whole article,more like a quick letter, the graph(will not copy and paste!) shows a simple wave type patern over 100 years. It is a pitty that he did not understand that sunspot activity is on an 11 year cycle

ON A RELATION OF THE SUN'S ACTIVITY
TO SOME BIOLOGICAL FACTORS
THE relation between the activity of the sun and
different physical and biological factors on the earth
can be illustrated by the following curves. The curve
S gives the number of sun spots as a measure of the
sun's activity (Wolf). Curve L1 gives the relative
RR.t
1760 1800 18S0 Year51m
numbers of births, L2-deaths and L3 marriages for
Leningrad and the curves R1, R2, R3 give the same
numbers for all the territory of Russia. In all cases
there are given means for ten years. It would be of
interest to find the same relations for other countries.
G. I. POKROWSKI
PHYSICAL INSTITUTE Or THE SCHOOL
or TECHNOLOGY, Moscow
 
kwerk said:
What if the solar weather is causing a similar effect on all our brains like that dude was saying making society more unstable?

There seems to be a lot of negativity and upheaval lately with the Arab Spring, Norway shooter, London riots, USA violent flash mobs, etc, etc
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The Norway shootings were planned several years before hand. That's not a good example in this case.

Also, to solely blame solar cycles is completely ignoring other far more pressing variables for the above such as the obvious recession and fiscal hardship it has caused and the technology available to create 'flash mobs'.

The sun may be a contributing factor - you only have to look at serotonin levels to understand it does affect us - but it is not the cause.
 
Tomsk said:
I was thinking the same thing.

2001 - sun spot peak - terrorism activity peak
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Sun spot peak yes, however it was planned for years. It's not like they woke up one day and decided they felt more suicidal than usual...
 
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