[ExI] uv as an antiviral

[Gadersd]

I can hardly wait until cell/virus simulations become feasible. Then people can test ideas such as these on supercomputers without needing approval from the government to test using “real” pathogens. I am sure the progress of medical research would then be greatly accelerated.

> On Nov 11, 2022, at 2:48 PM, spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> BillK, regarding that UV light business, consider microwave ovens.  Those are tuned to the resonant frequency of water, about 2.45 GHz.  The plates contain no water, so they don't get hot.  However... we know of some frequencies which will heat the plates without heating the water.  Same principle applies: resonance at the frequency of the material of the plates but not the food.
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> OK then, we know of some kinds of light which do pass through the body but don't hurt anything (in reasonable doses.)  You were likely exposed to them recently at the dentist office.  OK suppose there is a frequency which resonates a molecule in a virus, perhaps causing that bond to break, but leaving the rest of the molecules intact in anything else which is not that virus.  Could not we get a few thousand bats with C-19, dose each of them with a flash of some frequency well above visible light (for we know every life form on earth can survive visible light.)  See which bats recover from the virus and which ones perish from a dose of whatever frequency with which we just whacked them.  
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> Note that the band we call X-rays span three full orders of magnitude in frequency.  Do we know for sure there isn't a specific frequency in there somewhere which wrecks a particular virus without hurting anything else?  How do we know that?  Was it tried?
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> Last week I went to Stanford for a CT scan.  That works by exciting a specific atom (calcium) using a rotating magnetic field (thanks James Clerk Maxwell.)  What if... there is some way to put a patient into modified a CT scan machine that somehow excites some unknown molecule or chemical bond in C-19 without wrecking anything else?  Has that been tried?  Who tried it, when?  What if a number of C-19 infected volunteers wish to try something like that?  Or if we were to get a bunch of infected bats and try it on them first?
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> How do we get new treatments and therapies other than just trying any wacky idea and seeing which ones simultaneously seem to help and do not slay the proles?  Isn’t that what we call medical research?  Probably won’t work of course, but I figure that’s why we call it research, rather than refind.
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