It is possible to implant a fifth-generation chip in the vaccine, but it will not transmit any data

Social media users have been circulating for several months with the theory that vaccines against the Corona virus contain microchips of the fifth generation that allow tracking of vaccinated people and collecting their private data. But is this practically possible?

In a report published by the French magazine "Lepoint", Jean-Marc Rotor, a professor of science and technology at the University of Caen-Normandy, says that it is practically possible to implant an electronic chip in the human body through a small injection, but it is impossible to collect any data through this chip.

It is ironic - according to the author - that these rumors appear 56 years after Gordon Moore, one of the founders of Intel, announced his experimental theory that the number of transistors on small chips doubled at a rate of about once every two years.

According to the author, the validity of Gordon Moore's experimental law can be confirmed by the development reached by the primary electronic components at the present time, as transistors have reached nanometer sizes.

Earlier, electronic components were made of vacuum tubes containing filaments and networks called triodes. By heating and the electrostatic effect, weak electrical signals could be amplified, and this enabled the transmission of the first wireless signals in the early 20th century, known as Morse code.

Syringe Hole

Semiconductor components were developed in the 1950's, and the trade name "transistor" was coined by Bell Corporation. The first integrated circuit in which several transistors work connected to each other was manufactured at the end of the sixties.

On an industrial scale, square circles are made side by side to make it easier to cut before packing. In 2021, the International Foundation for Computers announced the manufacture of a transistor with a size not exceeding 2 nanometers (about twenty atoms placed next to each other).

How many transistors can pass through the opening of the syringe used in the vaccine?

There is an engineering problem that may hinder implantation of the chip into the vaccine syringe, because the circle of transistors is square, while the needle is circular and its inner diameter does not exceed 0.6 millimeters.

Therefore, the side of the square that can enter the syringe circle should not exceed 0.424 millimeters. Therefore, a sealed chip, similar to that found in modern cell phones, could be placed inside a vaccine syringe.

Communicating with the outside

The author explains that the biggest challenge is the wirelessly injected chip communicating with receptors outside the human body, as small antennas must be made on the wireless communication chip.

In this case, Maxwell's equations must be used to determine the size of these antennas. James Clerk Maxwell, a Scottish physicist and mathematician who lived in the 19th century, is credited with proving that the electromagnetic fields used to transmit radio signals propagate in space in the form of waves at the speed of light.

According to Maxwell's equations, the ideal antenna size should be equal to the ratio of the speed of light and the frequency of electromagnetic waves. Current 5G technologies use frequency bands around 3.5 GHz. Practically speaking, a 2.1-centimeter antenna would have to be made to allow the chip to communicate wirelessly with receivers outside the human body, but the surface size of the chip does not allow for an antenna of this size to be installed.

Animal microchips

Humans have previously implanted microchips in the bodies of dogs and cats. The chip is about 10 millimeters long and contains a unique number that can be read by placing the reader near the animal's ear.

The same applies to all wireless data transmission technologies, as the distance between the implanted chip and the reader is small, often not more than a few centimeters. In order to increase the distance, it is necessary to strengthen the transmitting power emitted by the chip, thus increasing the battery size.

Chip Size

Between the intricacies of making these tiny sizes, the tricky mathematical equations, and results that depend heavily on experimental conditions, it doesn't seem easy to determine the right battery size for transmitting the signals needed over a long distance.

Look at cell phone batteries, for example, a phone has a range of one kilometer for a battery that has a volume of about 10 cubic centimetres.

If we assume that the battery occupies half of the area of ​​the chip injected with the vaccine, the transmission range will be 0.1 centimeter. Given the size of the battery, the chip would have to be connected to a nearby reading system in order to be able to output data.

It could take 60 years

The author concludes that a fifth-generation chip processor can be injected through the needle hole used in corona vaccines, but the transmission range will be small and it requires a skin-to-skin reading system.

He adds that by extrapolating the law of doubling the frequency range of wireless telephony transmission 10 times in 20 years, it can take about 60 years to create small antennas suitable for chips injected into a vaccine needle.