Neodynium mood
A 21st century human brain can be destroyed by many unexpected experiences too shocking to be handled (war, accident, drug, rape, jail...)
What about a new electro-magnetic sense ? (very unexpected physical experience for a human body I guess, not violent but everlasting sensation)
Question is simple : does this kind of body modification ever leave you alone ? Couldn't it lead you to unsanity ?
Do you sleep well when your fan/computer/tv is on ?
Do you focus on a discussion in a room full of cellphones waves ?
Do you ever reach a sort of inner peace or is this new sense too invading ?
I can't find any precise reports on those everyday life issues here, still I find it vital to know a bit more before getting involved in such a modification.
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the sensation from implanted magnets is rather weak as magnetic fields get weaker fast with increasing distance. it also affects only a very small bandwith due to the magnet's inertia.
take a step away from your fan, and it won't bother you. and cellphones electromagnetic waves are in the MHz to GHz range, while the magnets will have trouble catching up with some kHz already. besides mobile communication is encrypted and happens ways to fast for your brain to interpret it in any meaningful way even if it would not be encrypted.
from what i can tell, it behaves like every other sens you have,too. just like taste, or hearing. it's there, your brain will get information from it, but unless your brain decides that it is interesting or important, it'll just discard the information it got. i mean, if it would cause any harm, living in a city with constant car noise, or wearing clothes which causes a sensation of touch all the time would drive billions of people insane.
so.. without having conducted any scientific research, just based on common sense and observation:
no it will not drive you insane, you'll still be able to sleep well, it will not munge away all your brain and turn you into a magnetic zombie.
after all. your brain wasn't born ready to rumble. it had to learn how to interpret many senses within the first years of your life. so.. one more or less, what does the brain care.
You seem to have an exaggerated sense of how sensitive the magnet is. For the most part, I don't feel anything with it unless I go out of my way to find things. I don't feel my hard drive unless I put my finger in a very specific place over my computer, extending up to maybe a centimeter over the plastic cover. I don't remember ever feeling a fan or a TV at all.
don't get me wrong, electromagnetic radiation can be troublesome. but wifi is flat out not powerful enough. even mobilephones, many times stronger than wifi, are not even close to something you could preceive.
from my own experience with electronics there are many other ways an electronic device can annoy the heck out of you. some parts grow old and start to vibrate, especially coils in powersupplies. but also things like the switch of a computer-mouse that registers the "clicks". sometimes they emmit a very high frequency noise, not very loud and hard to track down, but those freaked me out for weeks befor i found out what was going on.
"everyone has a very different level of physical sensitivity."
That's probably true, but there are limits to what you can get out of nerve cells.
I'm not sure what an industrial battery charger is like (following Nate), but I'm guessing it's much more powerful than your everyday fan or TV. Microwaves also use a lot of power. Your sensitivity is going to have to be two orders of magnitude (or more) higher than mine before it becomes a problem.
of course electromagnetic waves do interact with materia, and that includes your body,too. so you can influence those waves but a piece of wood or metal can do that too and this is in no way related to sensing those waves.
i'd like to take in some numbers that might explain things a bit better. a really strong wifi sender radiates bout 250mW of energy away. that's about the same energy as a loud headphone. just as sound, radio waves propagate into the space where they quickly distribute and get weaker. if you have a very strong wifi signal, you may receive a bit less 1/1000th of that. bout 100μW. if you have a very poor wlan connection, then the signal is more likely to be in the range of 100pW (or 1/1000000 of the strong signal).
in comparison, your microwave oven typically leaks about 1W of energy( or 1000000000000pW). 2.4 ghz hardly penetrates salty water. even if your brain would pick those wave up, they wouldn't go further than maybe 2 to 5 mm thus, hardly penetrate your skull.
if your wifi or any other regular electronic device really makes you feel uncomfortable in even the slightest way, then you would collapse and faint from pain standing next to a microwave oven or using a mobile phone. as those can be billions of times more powerful than your wifi.
if you still insist you can feel electromagnetic waves. yes, it is possible to feel them, and they don't feel good. this is in fact used by some non-lethal military weapons which use electromagnetic waves of around 15ghz (not sure iirc) and dozens of kW output power. they focus narrow beams onto the targets (humans). the waves penetrate only the topmost skin layer and trigger the nerves located there. reports say it generates a hot, burning sensation and you instinctively run out of that beam to take cover. not lethal, but still not nice. altho i am not sure if they actually heat up the skin in a very thin layer or if it really only triggers the nerves, of course they don't tell.
guess pumping anything up by 15 orders of magnitude it turns into a painful weapon.
so. as i said. i can well imagine that your router or other electronic devices causes discomfort. but i'd bet it's not the electromagnetic radiation but some sort of audible noise or similar. you can try tracking it down with a microphone and a volume-metering tool/software. i had 3 devices where i was even able to track it down to the part on the pcb, and in one case i found a leak in my parent's car's air conditioning system. tool like http://www.baudline.com/ greatly helps for such things.