Warning: Pink can be dangerous for health! (revision 1.01) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I am a researcher of neuronomy(science about the improvement of the usage of brain and nervous system) and I must express a serious warning against the use of the colour pink for lamps,sunglasses or any big surfaces those are intended to be exposed to the viewfield of human beings or animals for a longer time. The neuro-cybernetical background of this topic is very complex,though I at- tempt to explain these things in the following as short and simplified as I can. (Sorry for my poor English;I hope it is understandable.) The body cybernetics of the men(and most animals) syncronizes itself to the sequence of natural daylight.Pink only appears very short and at special times in the daylight sequence - once at sun rise and once in the evening dawn. Though the body cybernetics of the man is constructed in a way that it uses this pink as a strong signal for setting free adrenaline etc.,intended to be used only at these special times to make the body ready for quicker operation while awakening at early morning and otherwise to make it possible for the man to stay awake a bit longer at the evening dawn when the body already would get tired in cause of natural exhaustion. When the man artificially gets exposed to a pink viewfield,the same waking archprogram gets executed and sets free stress hormons.If the exposure lasts for a too long time,lots of stress hormons are setted free,causing a similar effect as consuming too much coffee,cigarettes or any other wakening drugs;the man doesn't get waker anymore but feels exhausted and even more weak and ti- red,because this maladjustment of his body cybernetics hinders his brain from cleaning up itself.An exposure to a red viewfield starts a similar,but weaker program,because red appears in the daylight sequence at morning and evening too,but for a longer time. (The short term memory of the brain works electrically and it needs the more energy the more data it stores.Though the brain needs special pauses(medita- tion,sleep etc.) to move the useful knowledge to other levels of its memory and to delete the rest,because otherwise it would run out of energy.The dange- rous state where the brain insn't able to get enough energy to keep its short term memory contents is identical to negative psychological stress.) The negative stress caused by a permanent exposure to a pink tinted viewfield not only hinders people from thinking clearly and learning,it is also capable to eveantually damage the body and crash the immune system.Though it is ex- tremely dangerous that many wide spread fluorescent light tubes emmit a pink tinted light. The following facts were mostly collected by the photosynthesis researcher John Ott,originally published in his book "Health And Light" by John Ott Pic- tures Inc. (German version is "Risikofaktor Kunstlicht - Stress durch falsche Beleuch- tung" published by Knauer Verlag, ISB N 3-426-06006-X .) In an animal test a cancer sensitive sort of laboratory mice was held under these so-called "warm white" fluorescent tubes while the other group was held under full spectral tubes those exactly simulate the spectrum of mediocre day- light inclusive the proper amounts of UV-A,a bit of UV-B and a very tiny dose of UV-C.While the mice under the daylight tubes grew quite normal,the skin of the ones under the pinkish tubes began to dissolve and their tails rotted away. (The exact reproduction of the full daylight spectrum is especially important for the photosysthesis our skin uses for building important hormons and some vitamins,because the building of each molecule sort needs a special wavelength (frequency) of light;when in artificial light a wavelength is not available or way too much available,the appropriate molecules either can't be built or way too much of them will be built,causing a maladjustment of the body cyber- netics.Usual fluorescent light tubes produce instead of a continuous spectrum just a mixture of 3 sharp wavelength peaks(similar to a colour picture tube) that appears to be a sort of white to the eye,but it is totally unuseful to operate the photosynthesis of the skin correctly and though these tubes addi- tionally hinder the immune system from proper operation.) In zoos and animal farms it is well known that the colour of light effects the behavior and fertility of many animals.E.g. chinchillas held under pink light only produce male children while ones held under blue light only produce female ones. In school classes where the pinkish "warm white" fluorescent tubes were re- placed by full spectral ones,the nervousity and agressivity of many pupils im- mediately disappeared while the mean learning ability rose by up to 60%. After staff in a radio station had the silly idea to replace the usual fluores- cent tube in the studio by a pink coloured decorational one,the motivation of the moderators went rapidly down,much more errors were made and someone nearly was fired.After the old tube was reinstalled after a month,everything went ok again. People those wore or had to wear pink sunglasses always became very aggres- sive,nervous and distracted.After removing these glasses for a longer time the symptoms vanished. (Wearing (esp. coloured)sunglasses for a long time without a practical need is generally a very bad idea,because they shield the retina cells from the UV-A they need to regenerate and hinder the body cybernetics from syncronizing itself to the actual daylight sequence.Special UV-sensitive cells within the retina control hormons etc.,affecting the immune sytem and possibly also the adaption of the skin pigmentation to the sunlight.Though wearing unneeded sun- glasses e.g. can make the skin more sensitive to sunburns.) It is also very likely,that the neurotic behavior of the noble women in the 17th..18th century("Eeek! - a mouse!...") was partly caused by the terrible pink child rooms they had to spend their childhood in. All in all can be summarized,that every long time domination of pink in the viewfield can be very dangerous and should be avoided if it is not intended to be used therapeutically.My oppinion is that the use of pink tinted "warm white" fluorescent lights in rooms for cerebral work and relaxation needs to be prohibited by law,similar as today nobody would allow anymore to install xray devices for feet in shoe shops or to sell radioactive toothpaste.Everybo- dy should replace as many of these dangerous light tubes as he can.Full spec- tral lights are the healthiest alternative,but every non pinkish light is much better then "warm white" ones.If the pink lights are part of a public building and can't be replaced/avoided by you,the wear of bluish glasses can sometimes help much to protect yourself from the headache,nervosity and other bad conse- quences caused by longer exposure to them. MAY THE SOFTWARE BE WITH YOU! *============================================================================* I CYBERYOGI Christian Oliver(=CO=) Windler I I (teachmaster of LOGOLOGIE - the first cyberage-religion!) I I ! I *=============================ABANDON=THE=BRUTALITY==========================*