from Dan Winter, 2/7/00
Follow up to:../magneticx wherein it became clear, that the concept of disturbing DNA as a {heart modulated?} radio station might intimidate genetic engineers from further rushing in where angels fear to tread, ONLY if more credible science could be referenced.
Published simultaneously with Fusion-Phi Phenomenon-Unlocking Ultimate PHIre, ../fusion Fusion: is PHI (Golden Mean) the solution to ALL of it's meanings? Along with "The Phi Phenomenon" key to VISUAL Fusion, is the possibility of FUSION at the Atomic Level, intimately linked to the pure principle of Golden Ratio based PHI Embedding, with all the Implications of creating self-organizing/self-aware wave systems this implies..? Is this an ultimate way to unlock the key to maintaining the PHIre of life?
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Subject: DNA waves and genetic engineering
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 11:05:04 +0100
From: Jaan Suurkula <psrast@swipnet.se>
To: dan@..
Dear Dan Winter,
We would be grateful to have the e-mail
address fax or phone number of
Molecular Biologist, Georgia Tech Ph.D., and Adonia McKinzi, Ph.D.,
quoted
in your web document http://../magneticx/index.html
Sincerely
Jaan Suurkula, MD, A.A.A.S.
Chairman of PSRAST
___________________________________________________________________________
Physicians and Scientists for Responsible
Application of Science and Technology
(PSRAST)
A Global Network for impartial interdisciplinary evaluation
of the safety and value of new technologies
E-mail: info@psrast.org
Fax Europe: +46-322620944 Fax U.S.: +1-(703)-783-7231
Website: http://www.psrast.org/indexeng.htm,
winner of the StudyWeb Academic Excellence Award
from
http://www.subtleenergies.com/ormus/tw/dna.htm
David Hudson:"And I just saw
this. Dan Winters does such a good job of depicting it that I
said, oh hell, I'll just use his slides. It just so happens that
Dan Winters said that the nucleus or the DNA interacts with this
frequency. So people in music and all this that play all this
beautiful music, they say it calms the soul, it does all these
things, they say, "Dave, would music effect the DNA itself?"
I don't believe so because, I think, that what you're trying to
effect is in fact a null, and that frequency that you're trying
to generate is in fact a frequency so short that even our nuclear
physicists can't produce the Planck frequency. But that frequency
in fact is where everything is and that frequency just happens
to interact with the DNA in the cell. It is the God-Force or the
Creative Vibration or the energy that is everywhere timeless in
the universe and that's what the electro-magnetic null produces.
So what frequency is it? It's not important. It's two waves equal
and opposite, that's what's important. (audience question) It's
actually Dan Winter's book, it's a big thick book, but I don't
remember the title of it. It's Dan Winter's book and that's what
it's in. Anyway, next slide.
And here he says, he's showing the cell again, the inter-reaction
of the zero point energy which he shows depicted as the center
or literally that the vibrations actually go to null, to nothing
and that's the center. And that's the frequency inter-reaction
of the DNA. That's one way of picturing it and so I'm using his
slide, but that happens to be the frequency that does interact
with the DNA, and his terminology here is, lightning-spun up-primal
soup- all lightning is unipolar because of the consistent orgone
electro-negative. Well he's talking about this as orgone energy.
That I don't know if I ascribe to, I don't know if I like his
terminology here, but his concept of the electro-magnetic zero
point is accurate. I'm not telling you that I believe everything
that Dan Winter's writes, I'm telling you that this particular
part of it is accurate. Next slide. Okay, next slide."
same article:
p. 235
Scientific American
May 1995
David Paterson
"The researchers examined the electrical properties of short
lengths of double-helix DNA in which there was a ruthenium atom
at each end of one of the strands. Meade and Kayyem estimated
from earlier studies that a short single strand of DNA ought to
conduct up to 100 electrons a second. Imagine their astonishment
when they measured the rate of flow along the ruthenium-doped
double helix: the current was up by a factor of more than 10,000
times-over a million electrons a second. It was as if the double
helix was behaving like a piece of molecular wire."
"For some time, chemists have suspected that the double helix
might create a highly conductive path along the axis of the molecule,
a route that does not exist in the single strand. Here was confirmation
of this idea.
http://www.accessnv.com/nids/articles/trans-kelleher.html
Retrotransposons as Engines of Human Bodily Transformation
Colm A. Kelleher, Ph.D.
(Journal of Scientific Exploration, 13, no. 1, Spring 1999,
pp. 924)
National Institute for Discovery Science
1515 E. Tropicana Ave., Suite 400
Las Vegas, NV 89119
ph: 702-798-1700, FAX: 702-798-1970
nids@anv.net
Abstract - The historical literature suggests that there
are unusual physical, as well as psychological, consequences in
humans to the attainment of the exalted state of mind known as
enlightenment, nirvana or samadhi. These reported changes include,
but are not limited to, sudden reversal of aging, emergence of
a light body and observed bodily ascension into the sky. This
paper proposes a "jumping DNA" or transposon-mediated
mechanism to explain rapid and large-scale cellular changes associated
with human bodily transformation.
Only 3% of human DNA encodes the physical body. The remaining
97% of the 3 billion base pair genome contains over a million
genetic structures, called transposons, that have the capacity
to jump from one chromosomal location to another. Transposons
that jump to a new location via an RNA intermediate are known
as retrotransposons.
The three main classes of documented or putative retrotransposons
in human cells are SINEs, LINEs and HERVs. SINEs and LINEs have
been unambiguously shown to transpose in humans and there is indirect
evidence that HERVs are active. A 1700 base pair DNA sequence
was isolated from purified activated human T cells (Kelleher et.
al, 1996). The sequence of this DNA contains a novel combination
of all three transposon families (SINEs, LINEs and HERVs) arranged
like "beads on a string". I describe it's structure
and I propose that this DNA sequence, because of its cassette
like configuration and its transcriptional expression and regulation,
would be an effective participant in large scale transposon mediated
genetic change that eventually results in transformation of the
human body.
The hypothesis is testable by using the DNA sequence as a molecular
probe to monitor transposon activity in the blood cells of individuals
undergoing profound psychological transformation as a result of
advanced meditation, near death experience (NDE) or close encounter
experiences with UFOs. The relevance of these proposed experiments
to the study of survival of human consciousness after death is
discussed.
In the future, attention undoubtedly will be centered on the
genome, with greater appreciation of its significance as a highly
sensitive organ of the cell that monitors genomic activities and
corrects common errors, senses unusual and unexpected events,
and responds to them, often by restructuring the genome. - Barbara
McClintock, Nobel prize acceptance speech.
Keywords: mobile DNA - transposon - HERV - Alu - line - NDE
- enlightenment ....Download the full paper see link above
Interspecies Global
Mind
Howard Bloom 08.12.1999
The History of the Global Brain XX
The global brain is not just human, made of our vaunted
intelligence. It is webbed between all species. A mass mind knits
the continents, the seas, and skies. It turns all creatures great
and small into probers, crafters, innovators, ears and eyes. This
is the real global brain, the truest planetary mind.
* Excerpts from : http://ftp.ix.de/tp/english/special/glob/6556/1.html
The Microbial Brain and our Use of it.
.........cyanobacteria,
which were among the first cellular beings. The microbial brain
rapidly
learned new lessons and added to its arsenal. From it evolved
a super
weapon, a sliver of 50 or 60 genes wrapped in a protein capsule
capable of boarding and grappling. This was the VIRUS, the bacteria's
collaborator and its foe. Viral assaults devastated bacterial
colonies -
yet they tested bacterial intelligence, tweaked bacterial ingenuity,
and
amplified bacterial skills. Viruses also pried loose genetic pages
from
the creatures they attacked and inserted them in the DNA library
of
those they visited next while on their predatory rounds. Thus
they
became couriers through which bacteria swapped molecular
pamphlets of new tricks and old collective memories.
Later cells learned to build a different form of collectivity
- the
multi-trillion-celled cooperative which forms a plant, an animal,
a you
or me. 3.5 billion years ago bacteria had their global brain up
and
running - running very fast indeed. By swapping genetic bits and
reengineering themselves they could create upgrades in hours or
in
days.
The Microbial Mesh - a Group Brain without Parallel in Creativity
In the 1900s, France's Louis Pasteur,
England's Joseph Lister, and Germany's Robert Koch discovered
that
microbes were the source of much disease. What they failed to
realize
was the cleverness of the newfound enemy. Bacteria are quick to
dodge the onslaughts of our drugs and immune systems. By
lengthening or shortening bits of apparent junk DNA15 , they re-tailor
their membrane and their interior workings so they can shift
appearance, roles, and tactics, evade our defenses, then a few
generations down the line switch back again. VIRUSES HACK INTO
OUR
GENETIC CODE TO UNDO OUR IMMUNE SYSTEM. Bacteria
swap scraps of DNA with creatures from other microbial species
or
simply scarf up the DNA fragments from dead cells and try them
out
for efficacy.
Plasmids helped the process mightily. These are boarders in
the
bacterial cell, walled off with their own DNA, which itch to multiply
from time to time. When two bacteria slide up against each other,
a
plasmid will build a pipe between the pair and move a part of
itself
through , hauling precise forgeries of a few of the old host's
genes
as it goes. Then it will create a clone of itself and of its genetic
contraband in the new home.
..... we used it to
insert a gene into a human cell in gene therapy. Completing the
new
package we called biotechnology was PCR - the Polymerase Chain
Reaction - which rapidly copied DNA fragments using an enzyme
we burglarized from the heat resistant bacterium Thermus aquaticus.
This paved the way for the drug industry in the 1990s to create
new
pharmaceuticals by harnessing bacteria, plasmids and their products
as gene sequencers, splicers, and reshufflers, and even as
assembly-line producers of complex proteins
A bacterially-based Revolution in GeneticEngineering
Viruses are Worldwide Transportation Experts
The knowledge gained could prove vital for yet another face-off
with
the microbial army, one whose loss might devastate humanity.
Bacteria will be our Allies as well as our Foes
For the global brain is
not just a human interconnect, it is a multi-species thing. And
that, in
fact, is what it's always been.
It is said that we have enraged nature by tearing at the pattern
of her
tracery, and for this transgression we shall be punished mightily.
But
we are nature incarnate. We are made up of her molecules and cells.
We are tools of her probings and if, indeed, we suffer and we
fail,
from our lessons she will learn which way in the future not to
turn. For
all that lives and all that ever has is part of a collective brain,
a neural
net of the most sprawling kind...an evolution-driven, wor
Subject: Fwd: WhiteGold: DNA and Iridium
in Egypt
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 08:06:02 EST
From: PetMagic@aol.com
To: dan@..
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Subject: WhiteGold: DNA and Iridium in Egypt
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 20:35:15 -0800
From: Buzz Lange <zz@zz.com>
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Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 22:48:32 -0700
To: WhiteGold@zz.com
From: Barry Carter <bcarter@igc.org>
Subject: Re: WhiteGold: DNA and Iridium in Egypt
Dear Evelynn,
At 10:02 PM 1/25/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 20:18:25 -0500
>To: White Gold Forum <whitegold@zz.com>
>Subject: DNA and Iridium in Egypt
>
>
>Just some interesting information....Evelynn
>
>
>The Year in Weird Science
>By William R. Corliss
>
>
>Organic Chips
>
>Jacqueline Barton and her colleagues at the California Institute
of
>Technology revealed last winter
>that long strings of dna carry electricity. They speculated
that dna may be
>an information
>superhighway that carries signals between genes located along
the wirelike
>molecule. In this way,
>genes that are far apart can turn one another on and off.
Dr. Barton has been exploring this property of DNA for quite a
while. David
Hudson mentioned a Scientific American article related to this
in several
of his lectures:
Scientific American
May 1995
David Paterson
"The researchers examined the electrical properties of short
lengths of
double-helix DNA in which there was a ruthenium atom at each end
of one of
the strands. Meade and Kayyem estimated from earlier studies that
a short
single strand of DNA ought to conduct up to 100 electrons a second.
Imagine their astonishment when they measured the rate of flow
along the
ruthenium-doped double helix: the current was up by a factor of
more than
10,000 times-over a million electrons a second. It was as if the
double
helix was behaving like a piece of molecular wire."
"For some time, chemists have suspected that the double helix
might create
a highly conductive path along the axis of the molecule, a route
that does
not exist in the single strand. Here was confirmation of this
idea."
pp. 33-34
Matti Pitkanen, in a private post about three years ago, wrote
the
following about an article in Science magazine:
In the newest Science, vol. 275, 7. March 1997 there was a very
interesting article about the work of Barton and her group. Barton
et al
have done several experiments between 1993-1997 related to the
conductivity
properties of DNA double helix. The conclusion of Barton et al
is that
DNA double helix has the ability to do chemistry at distance:
"A DNA
molecule with a chemical group artificially tethered to one end
appears to
mediate a chemical change far down the helix, causing a patch
of damaged
DNA to be mended.".
DNA as conducting wire instead of insulator
What seems to occur is flow of electron current along DNA with
very small
resistance. Typically the experiments involve electron donator
and acceptor
separated by a long distance along DNA. When acceptor is radiated
it goes
to excited state and an electron current flows from donator to
acceptor as
a consequence. Standard wisdom tells that this should not be possible.
The
current should flow by quantum tunneling between adjacent building
units of
DNA and it should diminish exponentially with distance. For proteins
this
is known to be the case. In experiments however no distance dependence
was
observed.
There exist a theory which assumes that the current could flow
along the
interior of double DNA, that is the region between the bases of
strand and
complementary strand. The electron would be delocalized in bases
rings
these rings would form a stack along DNA. The current would flow
by
tunneling also now but the tunneling probability would be so large
that
distance dependence would be weak. The critics of Barton argue
that this
model cannot explain all the experiments of Barton and that the
model is
not in accordance with basic organic chemistry and biology: ordinary
sun
light should have rather drastic effects on us. Barton admits
that they do
not understand the mechanism.
TGD-based explanation in terms of exotic atom concept
TGD suggests a possible explanation of phenomenon in terms of
closely
related concepts of exotic atom and charged wormhole. The concept
of
exotic atom in turn relies on the concept of many sheeted spacetime.
Exotic
atom is formed when one or more outer valence electrons of ordinary
atom
are dropped from atomic spacetime sheet to a 'larger' spacetime
sheet, now
spacetime sheet with a form of DNA helix. As a consequence, charged
wormholes feeding the em gauge flux to the larger spacetime sheet
are also
generated. Electrons in larger spacetimesheet could be delocalized
and
this could lead to a smaller ground state energy. What is important
is that
the electrons on the larger spacetime sheet move effectively in
empty
spacetime and therefore electric current can flow freely without
resistance.
Charged wormholes could provide also a mechanism of superconductivity:
photons are replaced with the excitations of wormhole BE condensate
in
this mechanism. It is however too early to say whether super conductivity
is really in question and even whether this superconductivity
mechanism
really works.
In the experimental arrangements of Barton typically donors and
acceptors
of electrons are Rh and Ru atoms. Both have 5s unpaired electron
and this
electron would drop on the larger spacetime sheet from the atomic
spacetime
sheet and induce electric current. Some colleagues of Barton did
not
observe the effect when using organic molecules as donors. A possible
explanation is that these molecules are such that their valence
electrons
cannot drop on lower spacetime sheet (it is not energetically
favourable,
they could be paired, for instance).
*************************************************************
For exotic atoms, charged wormholes and the related mechanism
of super
conductivity see my homepage
http://blues.helsinki.fi/~matpitka
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>End
of Pitkanen Quote<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>From these three papers and Matti's commentary, it would appear
that the
repair of DNA is linked to the presence of monatoms of the platinum
group
elements.
>High, Wide, and Hot
>
>More than 1,400 tons of ultrapure green glass is strewn across
the Egyptian
>desert near Libya's
>border. Shards of this Saharan glass contain traces of iridium,
suggesting
>an extraterrestrial
>origin. But no surface impact craters have been found or detected
by
>satellite radar probes. Mark
>Boslough of Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New
Mexico,
>theorized that the desert sand
>was melted by searing heat from a high-altitude exploding
meteor. He
>calculated that a meteor 10
>yards across entering the atmosphere would detonate with an
energy
>equivalent to a three-megaton
>blast. This would melt the sand below like sugar beneath a
blowtorch.
There is another possibilty which might also explain the presence
of
iridium. It may have been present in the sand as m-state iridium
and been
converted to metallic iridium by some phenomena associated with
a meteorite
explosion.
--
With kindest regards,
Barry Carter
<bcarter@igc.org>
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Subject:
Frequency Harmonics
Date:
Sat, 22 Jan 2000 20:08:54 -0800
From:
"James Barrett" <jbarrett@jps.net>
To:
"Al Harris" <al@powerofmusic.com>, "Jonathan
Goldman" <SoundHeals@aol.com>,"Marysol Gonzalez
Sterling"
<planet-art@redestb.es>,"Dan Winter" <dan@..>
CC:
"Panos Axiomakaros" <axioma@axioma.org>, "Jane
Kohl" <PJKohl@aol.com>,"Ray Flowers"
<outofyourway@earthlink.net>,"Letecia Layson"
<letecia@seizethemagic.com>,"RavenHeart"
<Raven@RavenHeart.org>
This web page has 33 pages to it.. but
the information is all there or linked for those that wish to
review.. http://web.idirect.com/~showcase/althealth/morfreqs.htm#Char
Comment 1 This paper will explore some possibilities that might
assist in shedding
light on the resonance relationships. There are several areas
that will be looked at in detail:
1.The complete genome of the DNA of an
organism.
2.Smaller areas, or fragments, of an organism's DNA coding.
3.Possible resonance occurring at the molecular or atomic level.
Section 3 is of most interest. below is a taste from the article. It is not a hard read. James
Section 3. Resonance of atoms & moleculesThe
possibility that atoms and molecules give off frequency signals
that can be
co-resonated is being given more and more attention by certain
scientists working in this field. A very readable
introduction to this subject was written by the French physicist
Jacques Benveniste, and is accessible on the internet
at:
http://www.digibio.com/cgi-bin/node.pl?nd=n3 and
http://www.digibio.com/cgi-bin/node.pl?nd=n5
Benveniste states at the second website
that "it is well documented that molecules emit specific
frequencies." He is also performing documented research that
links into the frequencies of certain molecules using audio sound
(see other links at above sites for more information and journal
references). However,
Benveniste does not state exactly which mechanism(s) he is tapping
into (i.e., bond frequencies, frequencies associated with mass,
nuclear resonance, electron
resonance, or other possibilities).
Another French physicist named Joel Sternheimer
is also using audio sound to resonate molecules. An article in
New Scientist magazine (May 28, 1994,
p.10), titled "Good vibrations give plants excitations",
briefly describes his work, as do a number of websites. For purposes
of this discussion, readers are
encouraged to look at the following sites:
http://www.bekkoame.or.jp/~dr.fuk/Chikuma2E.html and
http://www.bekkoame.or.jp/~dr.fuk/Series7E.html
While Sternheimer likewise does not state
which molecular resonance mechanism he is tapping into, there
is a clue in the New Scientist article and internet
links that is worth examining.
In each of these sources, there is a musical
staff with notes on it. Underneath each note is a capital letter.
These letters are symbols for an amino acid.
Sternheimer is using a certain note for each individual amino
acid, as given in these examples. But on what basis does he make
this association?
There is a relationship between mass and
frequency that can be looked at. If one goes to the physics formula
that converts atomic or molecular weight to
frequency, we are given:
frequency = (atomic or molecular mass) x (a constant)
Please see the table of "Energy Conversion
Factors" in D. Lide, ed., Handbook of Chemistry and Physics,
76th ed., (CRC Press, 1995), on page section 1-5.
In the far left hand column is given various energy units that
can be converted to other types of energy units, including frequency.
For these purposes we are
interested in the symbol "u", which means atomic or
molecular mass. When that line is followed across to the far right
column which is labeled "Hz", there is
given a conversion number:
2.25234242 e+23
Therefore, to convert an atomic or molecular mass ("u") to frequency, we would multiply the mass by the above conversion number.
Is this the mechanism that Joel Sternheimer
is using in his work with sound? Looking at the first musical
note "A" in the New Scientist
article, it has the letter "M" underneath it, which
is the symbol for the amino acid methionine. Its molecular weight
is 149.2139, which, when multiplied by
the above constant to convert to frequency, yields a result of:
3.360807966 e+25 hz
When this extremely high frequency (at
the very highest end of the electromagnetic spectrum) is divided
down by octaves to the very bottom of the
spectrum in the audio range, (i.e., doubling the wavelength many
many times), we come to a frequency at 444.8 hertz, which is indeed
a musical note
"A", as seen on the musical staff in this article. Analysis
of all the succeeding notes and correlating amino acids shown
in this musical example reveal the
same pattern: Sternheimer indeed seems to be using a mass-to-frequency
conversion correlation, and then dividing down by octaves all
the way from one
end of the spectrum to the other, to achieve his aim of stimulating
the action of certain molecules, proteins, and enzymes.
Now if anyone tries this mathematical
computation, you will soon find out that it will take what seems
like half a day to divide down by octaves from the top
end of the spectrum to the audio range of the spectrum, especially
if you are dividing by 2's. One can use a larger divisor, such
as 4096 (2 to the power of
14), to achieve these results more quickly.
However, there is an even faster shortcut!
One can simply take the atomic or molecular weight, and multiply
it by the constant 1.4904752, to get a
representative frequency in the audio range. This writer, after
having used the long process many times, now uses this constant
to get the same results a LOT
faster.
Incredible as it may seem that frequencies
at the very top end of the electromagnetic spectrum can be "signaled"
from the very bottom end of the spectrum,
this indeed seems to be what Sternheimer is doing, and he does
get results. At this juncture we must ask, however, what type
of wave is he using? Would this
technique work with the square wave that plasma beam researchers
are using? Keep in mind that this technology has been specifically
developed to debilitate
rather than stimulate certain things. Or would a sine wave tend
to stimulate and a square wave debilitate? Only further research
will shed more light on these
questions.
Furthermore, would applying the square
root of 2 relationship (as described in section 1 of this paper)
be a possible mechanism to debilitate certain
molecules?
While much more research needs to be done
on this aspect of using frequencies to affect molecules in some
way, here are a few examples that may shed
some light on the possibilities.
Many bacteria need a constant source of
the element iron to survive in living tissues. In fact, they have
developed mechanisms to rob the body of this
element from its more complex molecules. Could sending a "debilitating"
frequency associated with iron possibly serve to "scramble"
a frequency signaling
mechanism for bacteria?
The atomic mass of the most common isotope
of iron is 55.9349. (Iron-56 has a prevalence in nature of 91.72%).
To arrive at its frequency association,
multiply it by the constant 1.4904752, which gives a result at
83.3696 hz. To theoretically debilitate, multiply by Ö 2,
which gives us 117.9024 hz. If we
multiply this number up by two octaves (x4), the result is 471.6
hz.
Songs creates amino acids
Date:
Thu, 20 Jan 2000 09:33:32 -0800
From:
"James Barrett" <jbarrett@jps.net>
this came in tonight.. and then review acoustic.htm page again.
You will see that which I complied in the acoustic.htm (link at top) page is more true that some would like to believe. james barrett:
French Physicist Creates New Melodies - Plant Songs
Remember those song birds we used to hear
in the fields? The sounds of animals in nature singing a symphony
of soft and subtle sounds as
all things flow together to create a living and vibrant concerto?
Science is now showing that these sounds actually do influence
the growth
of plants. Researchers have demonstrated that plants respond to
sounds in pro-found ways which not only influence their overall
health but
also increase the speed of growth and the size of the plant.
Many people remember hearing in the late
1960's and 1970's about the idea that plants respond to music.
There were lots of projects in
high schools and colleges which successfully tested the effects
of sound on plant growth. It was determined through repetitive
testing that
plants did respond to music and sound. The first book which brought
this idea to most of us was: The Secret Life of Plants, by Peter
Tompkins and Christopher Bird (Harper & Row 1973). In this
best selling book a number of astounding revelations about plant
growth
were revealed. The idea that plants were influenced by sound in
both positive and negative ways was demonstrated by several world
class
scientists at that time.
When we think of plants being affected
by sunlight we are really looking at the effect of a portion of
the electromagnetic spectrum on
plants ? that portion which includes visible light. It should
not surprise us that sound also impacts plant growth because it
is, in essence, an
extension to other parts of the electromagnetic spectrum.
The science was first disclosed in an
article by Andy Coghlan which appeared in New Scientist (May 28,
1994, p.10). The article confirmed
old ideas by placing them in a scientific context. It tells an
excellent story about the impact of sound on plant growth, bringing
to light what
was before considered esoteric or mysterious science. After reading
this short article and those which follow in this issue of the
Flashpoints
a good deal more will be thought of "singing gardeners"
and "plant communicators."
Many people remember reading accounts
of plant growth being stimulated by sound waves. At that time,
"talking" to plants and playing
plants different types of music was used to influence growth.
A number of people were using these techniques without being able
to
completely explain the phenomena. This article is part of that
story ? a story which could have a profound impact on the way
we grow and
produce our food.
Eccentrics who sing to their plants? People
playing melodies to organic matter with the expectation that it
will help stimulate growth? These
ideas were the thoughts of some "non-scientists" until
French physicist and musician, Joel Sternheimer, discovered the
mechanism for how
plants respond to the stimulation of sound waves. Sternheimer
com-poses musical note sequences which help plants grow and has
applied
for an international patent1 covering the concept.
The sound sequences are not random but
are carefully constructed melodies. Each note is chosen to correspond
to an amino acid in a
protein with the full tune corresponding to the entire protein.
What this means is that the sounds sequenced in just the right
order results in
a tune which is unique and harmonizes with the internal structure
of a specific plant type. Each plant type has a different sequence
of notes
to stimulate its growth. According to New Scientist, "Sternheimer
claims that when plants "hear" the appropriate tune,
they produce more of
that protein. He also writes tunes that inhibit the synthesis
of proteins." In other words, desirable plants could be stimulated
to grow while
undesirable plants (weeds for instance) could be inhibited. This
is done with electromagnetic energy, in this case sound waves,
pulsed to the
right set of frequencies thus effecting the plant at an energetic
and submolecular level.
Sternheimer translates into audible vibrations
of music the quantum vibrations that occur at the molecular level
as a protein is being
assembled from its constituent amino acids. By using simple physics
he is able to compose music which achieves this correlation.
Sternheimer indicated to New Scientist that each musical note
which he composes for the plant is a multiple of original frequencies
that
occur when amino acids join the protein chain. He says that playing
the right notes stimulates the plant and increases growth. This
idea is
particularly interesting because it may lead to the eventual obsolescence
of fertilizers used to stimulate plant growth. This new method
would be cheap and relatively easily provided throughout the world,
thereby avoiding many of the problems associated with the extraction,
shipping, environmental and economic costs of chemical fertilizers.
Playing the right tune stimulates the
formation of a plant's protein. "The length of a note corresponds
to the real time it takes for each
amino acid to come after the next," according to Sternheimer,
who studied quantum physics and mathematics at Princeton University
in
New Jersey.
In experiments by Sternheimer, he claims
that tomatoes exposed to his melodies grew two-and-a-half times
as large as those which were
untreated. Some of the treated plants were sweeter in addition
to being significantly larger. The musical sequences stimulated
three tomato
growth promoters, cytochrome C, and thaumatin (a flavoring compound).
According to Sternheimer in the New Scientist, "Six molecules
were being played to the tomatoes for a total of three minutes
a day."
Sternheimer also claims to have stopped
the mosaic virus by playing note sequences that inhibited enzymes
required by the virus. This virus
would have harmed the tomato plants.
The note sequences used by the inventor
are very short and need only be played one time. For example,
the sequence for for cytochrome C
lasts just 29 seconds. According to Sternheimer, "on average,
you get four amino acids played per second" in this series.
The inventor also issued a warning for
those repeating his experiments. He warns to be careful with the
sound sequences because they can
affect people. "Don't ask a musician to play them,"
he says. Sternheimer indicated that one of his musicians had difficulty
breathing after
playing the tune for cytochrome C.
Plant stimulation by sound may have profound
implications. The idea that a cheap source of "electromagnetic
fertilizer" has been
developed should be exciting for many third world countries. At
a time when human progress can be made through simple solutions
in
agriculture, resources are being wasted in the extraction of mineral
and oil compounds for fertilizers. If this method of fertilization
were
followed the human intellect would prove superior to physical
capital in terms of distribution and production of this new technology.
The idea that sound can have a healing
effect on humans is being explored by a number of independent
scientists around the world. The
know-ledge of the "sound effect on proteins" offers
insights to health practitioners of the benefits to humans. In
addition to the favorable
economic factors, the increased vitality of the plant substances
can positively impact the health of all humans that consume them.
The patent includes melodies for cytochrome
oxidase and cytochrome C which are two proteins involved in respiration.
It also includes
sound sequences for troponin C which regulates calcium uptake
in muscles. Further, a tune was developed for inhibiting chalcone
synthase
which is an enzyme involved in making plant pigments.