Does anyone have any suggestions why Astronauts use Schumann Resonance in space?
I am quite sure that astronaughts use all kinds of things that have little or no scientific validity - like carrying a lucky charm, or following the tenets of some religion. "NASA does it therefore it must be valid" is a logical fallacy. The website referenced is so full of pseudoscience ("the Earth's cavity"?) it is impossible to tell where the facts end and the make-believe starts.
So, I think we'd need to see:
a. a better source (i.e. NASA) confirming the use of Schumann resonators on space shuttles
b. some peer-reviewed literature documenting the claimed effects (i.e. where did Schumann publish?*)
... before taking the ideas on that site even remotely seriously.
Could you please tell me where you find it? I would like to know how it effects on human body with a 7.3 Hz magnetic field of 1 picotesla. What make it good for human body in term of Biology?
There is no reason to believe it [the frequency etc] has any biological effect. Remember - it is up to the people
making the strange claims to support them.
It is a real phenomena which, in a misunderstood form, has been used by people making mystical claims as "scientific" support for whatever they are peddling.
When confronted by their misunderstanding, they respond with "science doesn't know everything". Basically, a lightning strike someplace on the Earth's surface sends our EM waves. Some of these waves bounce around in the atmosphere more than others. Schumann worked out which ones hung around the longest: wikipedia has a nice animation courtesy of NASA.
I think it is against the rules of the forum to promote pseudoscience, and discussing various manifestations, even with the aim of debunking them, must be handled very carefully. I'd suggest a forum like:
JREF may be more appropriate?
Meantime - there are no end of popular-level resources on this thing:
eg.
http://cosmoquest.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-62856.html
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread597740/pg1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schumann_resonance
* Schumann W. O. (1952).
"Über die Dämpfung der elektromagnetischen Eigenschwingnugen des Systems Erde – Luft – Ionosphäre". Zeitschrift und Naturfirschung
Nothing in there about Earth breathing or health.
