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Index
1.
Do
Viruses Glow? | 2. Photos of the Cancer Virus?
| 3. Round Balls of Dried Particles
| 4. Rife Interview Question
| 5. Special Light Properties of Quartz | 6.
UV Spectrophotometer | 7. Refractive
Index? What's that? | 8. Correct Speed of Light
| 9. Speed of Light in Different Materials | 10.
Why Light Bends | 11. UV Light and Quartz Crystals
Do Viruses Glow?
It is claimed that Rife was able to get viruses to give off light
and that each one, due to it's unique chemical structure gave off
it's own unique color spectrum.
... A special Bisely prism which works on a counter rotation principle
selects a portion of the light frequency which illuminates these virus
in their own characteristic chemical colors by emission of coordinative
light frequency and the virus become readily identifiable by the colors
revealed on observation. 8000 to 17000x magnification is sufficient
to see them. 37
Pollen gives off
its own light under several
wavelengths of light.
When
any object is seen according to one theory [Berne and Pecora, "Dynamic
Light scattering" John Wiley, 1975], the
electric field of the light hitting the
mater induces an oscillating
polarization of electrons in the molecules. These molecules become
a secondary source of light and radiate(scatter) light.
"The
frequency shifts, the angular distribution, the polarization, and
the intensity of the scatter light are determined by the size, shape
and molecular interactions in the scattering material, thus from light
scattering characteristics of a given system it should be possible,
with the aid of electrodynamics and theory of time dependent statistical
mechanics, to obtain information about the structure and molecular
dynamics of the scattering medium." - Theory
of Dynamic Light Scattering
Photos of the Cancer Virus?
Are
there any photographs of viruses that would prove this? I know of
no pictures of viruses captured with the Universal Microscope that
currently exist. A description of the process for photographing the
cancer virus with the Rife scope, however, still exists.
In
a paper titled "HISTORY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT
FOR CANCER AND OTHER VIRUS, BACTERIA AND FUNGI" Rife does describe
the process for taking pictures of the cancer virus.
THE
PROCESS TO PRODUCE THE CANCER VIRUS PHOTOMICROGRAPH (Copyright 1953)
A pure culture of cancer virus is taken from a known tumor and filtered
through a 000 Berkefeld (sic. should be berkfelt ) W porcelain filter
under 10 mm vacuum. From this filtrate a sample is drawn off with
a thin glass tube which has previously been heated, sterilized, and
drawn to a fine orifice. One micro-drop is placed on a quartz slide
and covered with a quartz cover slip.
The
slide is positioned on the stage of the universal microscope. The
universal microscope is focused on the cancer virus and a 16 mm or
35 mm camera is mounted to expose the (positive) negatives. The (positive)
negatives are developed and dried and then placed in a 1000 watt enlarger
and exposed for .9 second to a 3 inch by 4 inch glass slide negative
which is developed in microdal fine grain developer. From this slide,
the photomicrograph copies are reproduced.
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Round Balls of Dried Particles
Lacking
a picture of the cancer (or other) virus taken with Rife's Universal
Microscope,  below
is a Negative-stain Transmission Electron Microscopy photo of Adenovirus
and Parvovirus. Note that the
viruses appear, once killed by the electron microscope, as Rife says:
round balls of dried up particles.
Rife Interview Question
The
following is part of a facinating interview with Rife that was to
be introduced at a trial (from rife.de)
QUESTION:
What is necessary, in order to make bacteria and viruses visible under
the microscope?
RIFE: First there must be high enough
power to enable the observer to see them and second they must be identified
by a frequency of light which coordinates with the chemical constituents
of the virus or filterable form in question. To my knowledge there
is only one instrument today which will even show these virus and
that is the Rife prismatic virus microscopes which I built for this
work. The electron microscope is a useless device for this study because
the virus are killed instantly and you don't know what form you are
seeing them in and generally appear as round balls of dried up chemical
particles.
Special
Light Properties of Quartz
Vassilatos
states that the first key to Rife's super microscope was the use of
quartz for both the prisms and lenses. That he filled the
"..
entire objective with cylindrically cut quartz prisms. There would
be no difference in the refractive index from start to finish along
the optical path. Quartz prisms would "open out" each ray
convergence, maintaining strictly parallel ray cadence. An increased
ray content being thus returned to the ocular, the image would be
brilliant in appearance and of high resolution."
What
does that mean? First off, the
objective is the main part of the microscope, the part with the lenses.
Why quartz prisms? Check this out:
UV
Spectrophotometer
"The
first prototype UV-vis spectrophotometer, dubbed the Model A, was
developed in 1940. ... The Model B prototype, shown in Figure 2, replaced
the glass Fery prism with a quartz prism, greatly improving its usefulness
in the UV. ... Quartz prisms are very rarely seen today, and have
been almost entirely replaced by (other) filters (which) have negated
the stray light that led Cary and Beckman to choose a quartz prism
in the Beckman Model B prototype. The cost of gratings are now much
less than quartz prisms ... " 47
Note:
1. Quartz prisms are expensive, 2. Quartz prisms were used in real
scientific instruments in the past 47
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because they do not cause stray light. This has to do with something
called the Refractive Index.
Refractive
Index? What's that?
Also
called the "index of refraction" it is a constant for any
two materials defined as the speed of light in material #1 divided
by the speed of light in material #2. 12
Wait a minute! Light travels at different speeds!? I thought it was
a constant! You know, the "c" in E = mc2. Light travels
at 300,000,000 meters per second, right?
Only
in a vacuum. (And I don't mean a vacuum cleaner. Vacuum, as in SPACE
or a glass tube, jar, etc. on earth with the air pumped out.)
Correct
Speed of Light
Actually,
the correct speed is 299,792,458 m/s. By rounding up to 300 million
meters per second, we make light 207,452 m/s (464,057 miles per hour!)
faster than it actually is.
Where would these exact speeds of light be important? They matter
when you look at the "Index of Refraction"
The
"speed of light" actually depends on the material that light is moving
through. Light moves slower in glass than in air, and slower in air
than in a vacuum . 13
How much slower? Light is 89,911 m/s (201,125.5 miles per hour) slower
in air than in a vacuum. 14
Speed
of Light in Different Materials
| Medium
|
Speed
of Light in Medium |
Index
of Refraction (IR) |
| vacuum |
299
792 458 m/s |
1.0
(by definition) |
|
air |
299
702 547 m/s |
1.0003 |
|
ice |
228
849 204 m/s |
1.31 |
|
water |
225
407 863 m/s |
1.33
|
| glass
|
199
861 638 m/s |
1.5
|
| quartz
|
see
if you can calculate this! |
1.46
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Still
with me? You can tell the speed of light in some material by looking
up its Index of Refraction. If you know the Index of Refraction
for glass is 1.5, you divide the speed of light in a vacuum (299,792,458
m/s) by 1.5 to get 199,861,638 m/s.
Why
Light Bends
 Here's
the why the Index of Refraction matters in microscopes: As
light is slowed down passing from one material to the next, it BENDS!
The higher the index of refraction of the material, the more it will
bend all light. The bend happens every time light moves from one type
of material into the next. The reason you see rainbows is that different
colors of light are slowed down at different speeds. Red light bends
the least and blue light bends the most. UV with the shortest wavelength
bends even more.
Why
should light change direction when moving from one material to another?
Take a look at the illustration from HowStuffWorks.
The key is that light travels as a connected structure and different
parts of the structure experience drag at different times during the
transition.
UV
Light and Quartz Crystals
What
about quartz? Does it have the highest IR? Is the goal to bend light
a lot? There
are different kinds of quartz, but Fused quartz has an IR of 1.46
and Flint Glass has is 1.61. 16
The lower IR means quartz bends light (and especially UV light)
LESS and this results in less scattering.
This
also means that more rays of light will make it from the specimen
to your eye so it will be more brilliantly lit. UV is the portion
of sunlight that gives you a tan! If you are behind glass, you won't
get a tan, but if you were behind a quartz glass you would, because
quartz allows UV to pass without scattering it.
WARNING:
Looking at directly at a UV light source will
burn your retina and YOU'LL GO BLIND! I assume Rife shifted
the UV light from his scope into the visible spectrum and adjusted
the brightness very carefully to protect his own eyes.
If
I'm right about the index of refraction being the key to quartz, why
not use ICE LENSES? ICE has an even lower IR than quartz. It may be
that quartz has the best combination of lowest IR, most purity and
most stability. Why not freeze REALLY pure water and make prisms out
of that? Has it been done? Too many problems with the cold fogging
up everything else?
A Healthy
Glow
A normal
white light bulb gives off many different colors of visible light.
You can prove this to yourself by separating the light with a glass
prism. According
to Vassilatos, Rife used a brilliant ultraviolet-rich light source
pin pointed into the heart of the specimen to stimulate internal fluorescence.
His specimens then radiated their own brilliant ultraviolet rays.
Is there
any reason to believe this story? In fact, there may be. Today we
have fluorescence microscopes. They use a high intensity light which
then causes the specimen to emit light of a longer wavelengths. "Certain
molecules, by virtue of their chemical structure, have the ability
to emit light of a specific wavelength following absorption of light
of a shorter, higher energy wavelength. " 39
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Another
clue can be found in something called the green fluorescent protein
(GFP) from the jellyfish Aequorea victoria. A footnote in a
paper by Shimomura et al. states that "a protein
giving solutions that look slightly greenish in sunlight through only
yellowish under tungsten lights, and exhibiting a very bright, greenish
fluorescence in the ultraviolet of a Mineralite,
[ a brand of light ] has also been isolated ..." 40
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CONCLUSION
Did Rife
make viruses glow? The use of UV light and quartz prisms does not
seem unreasonable. Since viruses are composed of DNA or RNA, and protein
molecules 47
, and since we know that some proteins like GFP others 46
do glow when excited by UV light, this part of the story does not
seem entirely far fetched. Only a few proteins seems to glow visibly
when lit by ordinary UV light. Would they all emit if properly lit?
I don't know.
NEXT
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SOME NOTES -
WHY
THE SKY IS BLUE: The sky is blue, not because all but blue wavelengths
are absorbed, but because blue wavelengths are scattered the most.
Oxygen
molecules are smaller than red light's wavelength, but bigger than
blue light's wavelength. Red light comes from the sun, through the
oxygen to your eyes, in a relatively straight path. Blue light however,
when it tries to go through oxygen, gets bent. Blue light bounces
around and comes at your from all directions, rather than just one
direction, making the sky blue. (This is also why, if you look at
the sun briefly on one of those very rare cloudy days where it it
safe, the sun does not look blue, it looks red.)
WORLD DEATH RATE: "Since 1950, the death rate has been cut in half,
from about 20 to fewer than 10 deaths per year per thousand people.
At the same time, average global life expectancy has risen from 46
to 66 years." [ 29
]
WORLD POPULATION GROWTH: In 1804: world population reached 1 billion
1927: 2 billion (123 years later)
1960: 3 billion (33 years)
1974: 4 billion (14 years)
1987: 5 billion (13 years)
1999: 6 billion (12 years)
[ 28 ]
CANCER DEATHS PER YEAR: Statistics vary greatly but here's a hint:
millions killed worldwide by Cancer: 6.6 (1995), 6.3 (1996), 6.2 (1997)
[ 27 ].
BACTERIA
SHAPES: Rods = bacilli (sing. bacillus). View bacilli in a scanning
electron micrograph (SEM), Spheres = cocci (sing. coccus), Spiral
forms = spirilla (sing. spirillum).
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