The Ghost Fluid: Humanizing Radiation and Irradiating by Richard Swiderski

By Richard Swiderski

mild, warmth, magnetism-we have lengthy attempted to make a well-recognized physique of radiation, and convey its results on bodies. whilst electrical energy, electromagnetic waves and radioactivity turned identified they coincided with imaginary airy our bodies, spirits and ghosts, and projected totally new our bodies past the human. This e-book lines the humanization of radiation from historical fable to fashionable ghost hunting.

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