The magnetism of the earth has .little or no effect on the vital processes of beings living on the earth. Experiments to determine the effect of powerful magnetic fields on living cells have been made by Drs. Ruby Payne-Scott and William H. Love, in the Cancer Research Laboratory at Sydney University. They cultivated in test tubes the living cells from chick embryos. Some of these they grew in a magnetic field 5000 times as powerful as that of the earth, and others they grew under normal conditions, but without any observable differences. Some decades ago it was a widely held belief that the earth’s magnetic field produced extensive effects on human beings, and many people would sleep only with the head to the north and the body parallel to the magnetic meridian.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21802, 6 June 1936, Page 15
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