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THE ELECTRICITY OF LIFE an ‘oscillating circuit’. The oscillating current that it carries will reduce to zero very quickly as this electrical energy is dissipated. If we hook 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 charge out of that wire very efficiently because these two circuits are in resonance. 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 lay out a second identical length of wire parallel to 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 R esear cher Ph ! I The answer is that we have just re-invented wireless telegraphy. Our lengths of wire are 4 acting as antennae. In the first wire, a standing electric wave converts electrical energy Cal I ahan fin ds that 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 we are on ly now right-angles and sets up a standing electric wave along its length of the same or a resonant 9 9 frequency. Fr edis cover ing th e We could now telegraph messages from our ‘transmitter’ to our ‘receiver’ without having secrets of nature 's to run a connecting wire between them. ° LAKHOVSKY & HOMING PIGEONS elec tr ical Georges Lakhovsky (The Secret of Life, Paris, 1925, in French) was a Russian-bom ° French radio engineer. During World War I, it was found that carrier pigeons often fi r eq uencies. 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 transmitters 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 circled about three times before setting off on a homing journey. He theorised that the semi-lunar canals were activated by flight—as the bird moved through varying electric and magnetic environments in space, so currents were generated that fed directly into the pigeons 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 LIFE FIELD B ounce an electric charge from end to end of a length of insulated wire and you have an ‘oscillating circuit’, The oscillating current that it carries will reduce to zero very quickly as this electrical energy is dissipated. If we hook 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 charge out of that wire very efficiently because these two circuits are in resonance. 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 lay out a second identical length of wire parallel to the first and connect one end across an AC millivolumeter 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? B ounce an electric charge from end to end of a length of insulated wire and you have 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 standing electric wave along its length of the same or a resonant frequency. We could now telegraph messages from our ‘transmitter’ to our ‘receiver’ without having to run a connecting wire between them. Georges Lakhovsky (The Secret of Life, Paris, 1925, in French) was a Russian-bom 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 transmitters 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 circled about three times before setting off on a homing journey. He theorised that the semi-lunar canals were activated by flight—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. 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" about the living organism. Health equated to a strong and harmonious Life Field; disease was a disharmony that weakened the Life Field; and death was the dissolution of the Life Field. Lakhovsky pointed out that cellular oscillators could be detuned by accumulating toxins By E. Hugh Sangster, B.Sc. 53 Yarmouth Street Brighton, SA 5048 Tel: (08) 296 8848 or (08) 296 7749 44eNEXUS LAKHOVSKY & HOMING PIGEONS CELLULAR OSCILLATORS & THE LIFE FIELD OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 1993