SCIENCE DON'T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW RAW STORY! I WATCH: Physicist uses brain as ‘radio transmitter’ to unlock his car — and you can, too

SCOTT KAUFMAN
23 NOV 2014 AT 11:28 ET
n a video recently published on YouTube, University of
Nottingham physicist Roger Bowley demonstrates how
to extend the range of an automobile’s keyless entry
remote (or “key fob”) simply by placing it next to your
head.
Calling it “an experiment to perform the next time you can’t
find your car in a car park,” Bowley begins by walking
twenty paces away from his car and using the key fob to
make its lights go off. He then walks another fifteen paces,
again presses the button on the key fob — only this time,
the lights don’t go off.
“When I press the key,” he says, “nothing happens. But if I
do it again with the key next to my head, something
happens.”
“The reason this works is that everybody’s brain is full of
water,” he explains.
Bowley then collects a jug of water and walks even further
away from the car, until not even placing the key next to
his head activates the lights.
However, when he places the jug of water on his head, and
then places the key next to it, the combined effect of the
water in his brain and water in the jug cause the car’s lights
to illuminate.
Bowley explains that when the key fob sends the
electromagnetic waves through the water (H2O), they pull
the positively charged hydrogen ions in one direction, and the
negatively charged oxygen ions in the other.
“If effect,” he said, “you’ve got the protons being pulled
upward, then downward, then upward, then downward,
because of the oscillating electric field. That means they’re
behaving rather like a radio transmitter — as they go up and
down, they’re radiating energy.”
Because that energy is being radiated at the same frequency
as the key fob’s signal, the fob can effectively communicate
with the car well beyond its typical range.