Are Fingerprints too magnetically steered in utero?

If hair follicles are steered by bio magnetic fields creating whorls and grain patterns, I wonder if fingerprints are simply a byproduct of the magnetic field of electrical impulses running through nerve bundles in the fingers.

These hair follicle patterns would be laid down in utero (Wunderlich, RC, Heerema, NA: Hair crown patterns of human newborns. Studies on parietal hair whorl locations and their directions. Clin Pediatr 1975, 14: 1045–1049, ISI ChemPort ) and since newborns come with both hair whorls and fingerprints the patterns are laid down early.

Oddly the only areas where patterned skin ridges exist are in the palms of hands and soles of feet where nerve bundles are concentrated.

If this hypothesis were true you would see variations in fingerprints based on nerve disorders and that evidence exists;

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© Kamla-Raj 2007 Anthropologist, 9(1): 63-66 (2007)
Digital Dermatoglyphics in Leprosy
P.E.Natekar* and F. M. DeSouza
Department of Anatomy, Goa Medical College, Bambolim403202, Goa, India
*Telephone: (O) 0832-2458701-09 Ext.2250, (R) 0832-2458787 (M) 09326150001
*E-mail: drpenatekar@hotmail.com
KEYWORDS Finger Print Pattern. Total Finger Ridge Count. Absolute Finger Ridge Count. Leprosy

ABSTRACT Finger print patterns of 150 leprosy patients (100 paucibacillary and 50 multibacillary leprosy) were compared with 100 controls matched accordingly. The finger print pattern such as whorls, loops, arches, total finger ridge count (TFRC) and absolute finger ridge count (AFRC) were calculated. These dermatoglyphic parameters were compared to that of the controls. It was observed that the finger print pattern showed increase in the whorls and decrease in the loops in paucibacillary leprosy patients and increase in the loops and decrease in whorls in multibacillary leprosy patients (p<0.001) which is highly significant when compared to that of the control. The difference in the mean TFRC and AFRC in paucibacillary and multibacillary was also found to be highly significant (p<0.001) when it was compared to the control.
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Are we simply looking at magnetic field steering in biology? Interesting question.

Galactic Formation and Cowlicks

I thought this anecdotal evidence regarding the tremendous steering force of magnetic fields may interest you.

I happened to be looking at an old research paper regarding magnetic fields within the human body from 1980. It concluded that hair follicles aligned and hair whorls (cowlicks) were the result of magnetic field alignments.

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http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=348512&blobtype=pdf

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
Vol. 77, No. 3, pp. 1447-1451, March 1980
Biophysics
Magnetic fields produced by steady currents in the body
(steady magnetic field/direct current/steady potentials/hair follicle)
DAVID COHEN*, YORAM PALTIt, B. NEIL CUFFIN*, AND STEPHEN J. SCHMID**
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…”Because the scalp surface is relatively planar, the arrows
of Fig. 2 indicate only source currents (no volume currents). The
source must involve the thriving hair follicles, not only because
this dcMF (DC Magnetic Field) is absent where these follicles are absent, but also
because the general arrow pattern (Fig. 2) was found to coincide
with the common tilt pattern of the hair follicles of the scalp
(15, 16); this includes the occasional whorl (Fig. 2A). Stated
otherwise, the arrows coincide with the projection of the follicles
onto the scalp surface; the arrows point "into" the follicles. The
source associated with each follicle can therefore be considered
as a current dipole pointing along the follicle into the root and
located either within or near the follicle. If within, then this
source could be, for example, equivalent to a polarized layer
lining the follicle, with negative charges on the inside.”…
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That is interesting all to itself, but it got me wondering if those who suffer from dyslexia may have different formal patterns of hair follicle whorls in their scalp than non-dyslexics. My son has dyslexia and he has hair whorls that are different from other family members.

It is amazing that the extremely small magnetic field of a human scalp could steer hair growth.

And that brought me to this equally bizarre study;

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http://www.ias.ac.in/jgenet/Vol83No3/251.pdf

Excess of counterclockwise scalp hair-whorl
rotation in homosexual men
A M A R J . S . K L A R *
Ijamsville, MD 21754, USA
Abstract
While most men prefer women as their sexual partners, some are bisexual and others are homosexuals. It has been debated
for a long time whether a person’s sexual preference is innate, learned, or due to a combination of both causes.
It was recently discovered that the human right-versus-left-hand use preference and the direction of scalp hair-whorl
rotation develop from a common genetic mechanism. Such a mechanism controls functional specialization of brain
hemispheres. Whether the same mechanism specifying mental makeup influences sexual preference was determined
here by comparing hair-whorl rotation in groups enriched with homosexual men with that in males at large. Only a
minority of 8.2% (n = 207) unselected ‘control’ group of males had counterclockwise rotation. In contrast, all three
samples enriched with homosexual men exhibited highly significant (P < 0.0001), 3.6-fold excess (29.8%, n = 272)
counterclockwise rotation. These results suggest that sexual preference may be influenced in a significant proportion
of homosexual men by a biological/genetic factor that also controls direction of hair-whorl rotation.
[Klar A. J. S. 2004 Excess of counterclockwise scalp hair-whorl rotation in homosexual men J. Genet. 83, 251–255]
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If there is any truth at all to these studies it is interesting to think that magnetic fields not only steer the formation of galaxies, but trickle right down to the pattern your hair follicles grow in.

It would appear that the answer to the ultimate question of; the universe, life and everything is simply magnetic fields.

Magnetic fields have to be reconsidered, for although being weak forces it appears they have tremendous steering power.

If this data is anything more than anecdotal a half dozen or more studies pop to mind.

Oscillating through a magnetic field

Our slar system oscillates up and down through the galactic magnetic plane. Does that make the our sun rotate? Let's test.

Imagine the spherical magnet is our sun and the larger magnet I am holding is the galactic magnetic plane.

For simplicity I will oscillate the galactic magenetic field up and down. In reality it is the solar system moving up and down through the galactic magnetic plane.

So it appears the sun's rotation could be a direct result of it's orbit oscillating up and down through the galactic magnetic field.

Do the planents of our solar system rotate due an interaction with the sun's magnetic plane, or the galaxies magnetic plane? I am going to assume a trickle down affect and the galaxy affects the sun, and the sun affects the planets.

Hurricane - Come Hither

According to the “dynamo theory” which is defined as; “Dynamo theory describes the process through which motion of a conductive body in the presence of a magnetic field acts to regenerate that magnetic field.”, so I assume hurricanes have a weak magnetic field of their own.

(ie: Hurricanes rotate in a circular pattern, within a magnetic field, water is a conductor, and we know they produce electrical energy in the form of lightening. Why shouldn’t a hurricane have a weak magnetic field?)

So if a hurricane has a weak magnetic field it would move within the earth’s magnetic field lines in a very specific manner, or at least be influenced in its movement in a very specific manner by the earth’s magnetic field lines.

The earth’s magnetic field lines move in relationship to the surface because earth’s rotational axis and magnetic axis are not the same, but these two axis’ stay within a certain tolerance of each other. This would account for the “general” targeting of Gulf coast hurricanes rather than specific targeting.

Here is a model of earth’s magnetic field lines. I imagine the field lines move and shift marginally over time with stronger and weaker areas of magnetic force. Overall the field stays within tolerance of this model. The stronger magnetic forces towards the poles, the weaker forces to the equator. This image represents a snapshot in time. (these images are proposed magnetic field line models)



If a hurricane moving eastwards towards the Gulf coast has a magnetic field of its own, its course would be influenced every time it crossed one of the earth’s magnetic field lines. Sooner or later it would steer northwards.

Notice the number of and congestion of magnetic field lines running through North America and the Gulf Coast area.

You can actually see “hurricane alley” and “tornado alley”. In addition the coriolis effect (eastward arcing) of hurricanes tracking just outside of hurricane alley would be enhanced as it reached the strong magnetic field line running along the Eastern Canadian coastline, steering the hurricane out to sea.

The US Department of Defense offers this model of earth’s magnetic field lines;


At first glance this relationship seems to exist.

Possibly, when the earth’s magnetic field reverses the Gulf coast will no longer be a magnetic steering area for hurricanes.

Magnetic Fields and Water Evaporation

I am getting back to my original posting that increased electromagnetic radio waves from the sun are warming saltwater. Therefore I am looking into the physical properties of water and how electromagnetic fields affect them.

Here is a bizarre little fact about water; Weak magnetic fields (15 mT) have also been shown to increase the evaporation rate. [L. Holysz, A. Szczes and E. Chibowski, Effects of static magnetic field on water and electrolyte solutions, J. Coll. Interface Sci. (2007) Article in press, doi:10.1016/j.jcis.2007. 08.026..]

And we know that the earth’s magnetic field is weakening prior to the field reversing;

If water evaporates better in low magnetic fields you would expect more droughts as the earth’s magnetic field weakens.

Drought's Growing Reach:NCAR Study Points to Global Warming as Key Factor
January 10, 2005
BOULDER- The percentage of Earth's land area stricken by serious drought more than doubled from the 1970s to the early 2000s, according to a new analysis by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Widespread drying occurred over much of Europe and Asia, Canada, western and southern Africa, and eastern Australia. Rising global temperatures appear to be a major factor, says NCAR's Aiguo Dai, lead author of the study.

Would more evaporated water in earth's atmosphere produce a warming blanket?

Maybe it isn’t cosmic rays condensing water with their passing, but simply more water evaporating due to a weakening magnetic field.

Galactic Formation and Magnetic Fields

The things you can learn when you are not looking…

Do you see any similarity between these shapes;
The one on the left is a photo of a spiral galaxy.

The shapes almost overlay perfectly.

The one on the right is ferrofluid (magnetic particles suspended in a liquid) exposed to a 25Hz magnetic field during an MIT experiment. The magnetic field is axial and the pattern rotates and evolves over time.

I simply flipped the ferrofluid image horizontally and rotated it to alignment. The same result could be achieved by the reversal of the DC charge in the experiment.

You can view the 2002 MIT experiment here on YouTube;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5OhZ9wT568

So does this mean that rotation and galactic formation are simply a byproduct of magnetic fields and that gravity is not the primary mover, simply another aspect of magnatism?

Popping The Question

I have started reading the debate regarding a fusion core sun versus the iron core sun. The proponents of the fusion core point to the crab pulsar as how a neutron star operates.

Since it is all theory, I would like to ask a question?

Could a pulsar simply be a star which is reversing its magnetic poles very quickly?

Living rurally I am very aware of the electromagnetic signature of electricity reversing direction in an electric animal fence. As you drive by you can hear the electromagnetic signature on your AM radio popping with each surge of current.

With that in mind I would look towards our sun for an electromagnetic signature change when it changes poles every 11 years. Is there an electromagnetic “pop” of some duration as the sun’s poles reverse? Does the profile of our sun’s electromagnetic “pop” mimic that of a pulsar only much slower? Thirdly, are pulsars simply stars reversing their poles very, very quickly?

From the Iron Sun debate only one thing comes to mind. For the sun to be fusion cored it would have to be a pure hydrogen/helium giant. What are the chances of a gravitational body being pure anything? Common sense tells me there is a core made of heavier materials than helium and hydrogen, which would have sunk to the core of the sun, based on their density.

Possibly neither debate is fully correct, but a combination of the two.