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• Bounce an el~tric charge from end to end of a length of insulated wire and you have an 'oscillatiJig circuit'. The oscillating current that it carries will reduce to zero very quickly as this electrical energy is dissipated. If we hoo.k up a length of wire to' an alternating current charging circuit that is tuned to the natural frequency of that wire, then it will push charge into and pull cllarge out of /hat wire very efficiently bycause these two circuits are in resonanc_e. We may also notice that in this resonant condition our length of wire drains power from the charging circuit. Where does that energy go? If we layout lii second identical length of wire parallel Ito the first and connect one 'end across an AC millivoltmeter to earth, we will find that whenever the charging circuit to the first wire is switched on, an oscillating current is set up in the second wire. This happens even when these two wires are too far apart for their electric and magnetic fields' to inter act. Why? WIRELESS TElEGRAPHY The answer is that we have just re-invented wireless telegraphy. Our lengths of wire are acting as antennae. In the first wire, a standing electric wave converts electrical energy into electromagnetic radiant energy, which radiates at right-angles to the wire. In the sec ond wire, electromagnetic radiant energy of the appropriate frequency strikes the wire at right-angles and sets up a sjanding electric wave along its length of the same or a resonant frequency. We could now telegraph messages from our 'transmitter' to our 'receiver' without n-aving to run a connecting wire between them. LAKHQVSKY &HOMING PIGEONS Georges Lakhovsky (The Secret of Life, Paris, 1925, in French) was a Russian-born French radio engineer. During World War I, it was found that carrier pigeons often became confused and lost whenever one of the newfangled spark-gap wireless transmitters was operating. Lakhovsky noted that within the pigeon's head the semi-lunar canals (com posed of saline fluid within fatty tubes) were electrically analogous to the loop aerials (directional antennae) used for locating wireless transmitte-rs and that they must act as oscillating circuits. Moreover, the pigeon was equipped with six semi-lunar canals arranged as three stereoscopic pairs mutually at right-angles to each other. Lakhovsky noted that upon release, pigeons cireled about three times before setting off on a homing journey. He theorised that the semi-lunar canals were activated by fligJn-as the bird moved through varying electric and magnetic environments in space, so currents were generated that fed directly into the pigeon's brain. and provided it with richly sensitive nav igational information. The spark-gap wireless transmitter effectively jammed any such sensitive navigation systems within about 20 miles, much as the spark of an electric welder will blot out signals to a nearby AM radio receiver. CELLULAR OSCillATORS & THE LlFE FIELD Lakhovsky realised that living cells themselves contained numerous structures with the qualities of oscillating circuits and which must therefore both radiate and resonate with electromagnetic radiation of wavelengths appropriate to their size. In Lakhovsky's view, the summation of these cellular radiations formed a "Life Field" ahout the1living organism. Health equated to a strong and harmonious Life Field; disease was a disharmony that w«akened the Life Field; and death was the dissolution of the Life Field. Lakhovs1cy pointed out that cellular oscillators could be detuned by accumulaling toxins 44·NEXUS OCTOBER -NOVEMBER 1993