The Field (45 page)

27
Puthoff, ‘Everything for nothing’.

28
H. E. Puthoff, ‘Gravity as a zero-point-fluctuation force,’
Physical Review A
, 1989; 39(5): 2333 – 42; also ‘Comment’,
Physical Review A
, 1993; 47(4): 3454 – 5.

29
Ibid.

30
Interview with Hal Puthoff, April 8, 2000.

31
Energy Conversion using High Charge Density, US Patent no. 5,018,180.

32
Interview with Bernhard Haisch, California, October 26, 1999.

33
Robert Matthews, ‘Inertia: does empty space put up the resistance?’
Science
, 1994; 263: 613. This property of the vacuum was also tested by Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.

34
B. Haisch, A. Rueda and H. E. Puthoff, ‘Inertia as a zero-point-field Lorentz force’,
Physical Review A
, 1994; 49(2): 678 – 94.

35
B. Haisch, A. Rueda and H. E. Puthoff, paper presented at AIAA 98-3143, Advances ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference & Exhibit, July 13 – 15, 1998, Cleveland, Ohio; also B. Haisch, ‘Brilliant Disguise.’

36
Haisch
et al
., ‘Beyond
E
=
mc
²
’.

37
A. C. Clarke, 3001
: The Final Odyssey
(HarperCollins, 1997): 258.

38
Ibid.

39
Ibid.: 258 – 9.

40
Clarke, ‘When will the real space age begin?’: 15.

41
A. Rueda, B. Haisch and D. C. Cole, ‘Vacuum zero-point field pressure instability in astrophysical plasmas and the formation of cosmic voids’,
Astrophysical Journal
, 1995; 445: 7 – 16.

42
R. Matthews, ‘Inertia’.

43
D. C. Cole and H. E. Puthoff, ‘Extracting energy and heat from the vacuum’,
Physical Review E
, 1993; 48(2): 1562 – 5.

44
Interview with Bernhard Haisch, California, October 29, 1999.

45
Interviews with Hal Puthoff, July and August 2000; also H. Puthoff, ‘On the relationship of quantum energy’. I have deliberately used a few of Puthoff’s phrases from his unpublished article to indicate his thinking at the time.

46
Clarke, ‘When will the real space age begin?’.

CHAPTER THREE: BEINGS OF LIGHT

1
F. A. Popp, ‘MO-Rechnungen an 3,4-Benzpyren und 1,2-Benzpyren legen ein Modell zur Deutung der chemischen Karzinogenese nahe’,
Zeitschrift für Naturforschung
, 1972; 27b: 731; F. A. Popp, ‘Einige Möglichkeiten für Biosignale zur Steuerung des Zellwachstums’,
Archiv für Geschwulstforschung
, 1974; 44: 295 – 306.

2
B. Ruth and F. A. Popp, ‘Experimentelle Untersuchungen zur ultraschwachen Photonememission biologisher Systeme’,
Zeitschrift für Naturforschung
, 1976; 31c: 741 – 5.

3
M. Rattemeyer, F. A. Popp and W. Nagl,
Naturwissenschaften
, 1981; 11: 572 – 3.

4
R. Dawkins,
The Selfish Gene
, 2nd edn (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989): 22.

5
Ibid.: preface, 2; see also R. Sheldrake,
The Presence of the Past
(London: Collins, 1988): 83 – 5.

6
Dawkins,
Selfish Gene
: 23.

7
Ibid.: 23; ‘This, at the present time in molecular biology, is the learned soundscreen of language behind which is hidden the ignorance, for want of a better explanation.’

8
Telephone interview with Fritz-Albert Popp, January 29, 2001.

9
R. Sheldrake,
A New Science of Life
(London: Paladin, 1987): 23 – 5.

10
R. Sheldrake,
A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Formative Causation
(London: Blond and Briggs, 1981); Sheldrake,
Presence of the Past
.

11
Sheldrake has expressed the view that nonlocality in quantum physics might ultimately explain some of his theories. See Sheldrake website: www.sheldrake.org.

12
See H. Reiter und D. Gabor,
Zellteilung und Strahlung. Sonderheft der Wissenschaftlichen Veroffentlichungen aus dem Siemens-Konzern
(Berlin: Springer, 1928).

13
R. Gerber,
Vibrational Medicine
(Santa Fe: Bear and Company, 1988): 62.

14
H. Burr,
The Fields of Life
(New York: Ballantine, 1972).

15
R. O. Becker and G. Selden,
The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life
(Quill, 1985): 83.

16
Experiments by Lund, Marsh and Beams are recounted in Becker and Selden,
The
Body Electric
: 82 – 5.

17
Becker and Selden,
Body Electric
: 73 – 4.

18
H. Fröhlich, ‘Long-range coherence and energy storage in biological systems’,
International Journal of Quantum Chemistry
, 1968; 2: 641 – 9.

19
H. Fröhlich, ‘Evidence for Bose condensation-like excitation of coherent modes in biological systems’,
Physics Letters
, 1975, 51A: 21; see also D. Zohar,
The Quantum Self
(London: Flamingo, 1991): 65.

20
R. Nobili, ‘Schrödinger wave holography in brain cortex’,
Physical Review A
, 1985; 32: 3618 – 26; R. Nobili, ‘Ionic waves in animal tissues’,
Physical Review A
, 1987; 35: 1901 – 22.

21
Becker and Selden,
The Body Electric
: 92 – 3; also R. Gerber,
Vibrational Medicine
: 98; M. Schiff,
The Memory of Water
: 12. More recently, another Italian, Ezio Insinna, proposed that centrioles, the little cartwheel structures holding cell structure in place, are virtually ‘immortal’ oscillators, or wave generators. In an embryo, these waves will be set in motion by the father’s genes when they first unite with the mother’s genes, and thereafter continue pulsing through the life of the organism. At the first stage of an embryo’s development, they might begin at a certain frequency to affect cell shape and metabolism, and then change the frequency as the organism matures. Correspondence with E. Insinna, November 5, 1998. See E. Insinna, ‘Synchronicity and coherent excitations in microtubules’,
Nanobiology
, 1992; 1: 191 – 208; ‘ciliated cell electrodynamics: from cilia and flagella to ciliated sensory systems’, in A. Malhotra, ed.,
Advances in Structural Biology
, Stamford, Connecticut: JAI Press, 1999:5. T. Y. Tsong has also written about the electromagnetic language of cells: T. Y. Tsong, ‘Deciphering the language of cells’,
Trends in Biochemical Sciences
, 1989; 14: 89 – 92.

22
F. A. Popp, Qiao Gu and Ke-Hsueh Li, ‘Biophoton emission: experimental background and theoretical approaches’,
Modern Physics Letters B
, 1994; 8(21/22): 1269 – 96; also, F. A. Popp, ‘Biophotonics: a powerful tool for investigating and understanding life’, in H. P. Dürr, F. A. Popp and W. Schommers (eds),
What is Life?
(Singapore: World Scientific), in press.

23
S. Cohen and F. A. Popp, ‘Biophoton emission of the human body’,
Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology B: Biology
, 1997; 40: 187 – 9.

24
Interviews with Fritz-Albert Popp, Coventry and telephone, March 2001.

25
F. A. Popp and Jiin-Ju Chang, ‘Mechanism of interaction between electromagnetic fields and living systems’,
Science in China (Series C
), 2000; 43: 507 – 18.

26
Biologist Rupert Sheldrake has recently made a study of the special abilities of animals. His own studies have demonstrated that termite colonies will make columns and then bend them toward each other until the ends of the new columns meet in an arch, according to some master plan beyond all usual communication. One of the best experiments testing this ability was carried out by South African naturalist Eugene Marais, who placed a steel plate in a termite mound. Despite the height and width of the plate, the termites would build an arch or tower on each side of the plate so similar that when the steel plate was withdrawn, the two halves matched perfectly. Marais (and later Sheldrake) concluded that the termites operate according to an organizing energy field far more advanced than any sensory communication, particularly since many forms would not be able to penetrate the steel plate. Sheldrake has amassed a database of 2,700 case histories of pets and apparent telepathic behavior, and a number of surveys with pet owners. More than 200 studies concern the telepathic abilities of JayTee, a mixed-breed terrier in the north of England, who will go to the window and wait for his owner, Pamela Smart, in telepathic anticipation of her arrival, even if she sets off for home at unusual times and in strange vehicles. See R. Sheldrake,
Seven Experiments That Could Change the World: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to Revolutionary Science
(Fourth Estate, 1994): 68 – 86, and
Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home and Other Unexplained Powers of Animals
(Hutchinson, 1999).

27
Interview with Fritz-Albert Popp, Coventry, March 21, 2001.

28
J. Hyvarien and M. Karlssohn, ‘Low-resistance skin points that may coincide with acupuncture loci’,
Medical Biology
, 1977; 55: 88 – 94, as quoted in the
New England Journal of Medicine
, 1995; 333(4): 263.

29
B. Pomeranz and G. Stu,
Scientific Basis of Acupuncture
(New York: Springer-Verlag, 1989).

30
A. Colston Wentz, ‘Infertility’ (Book review),
New England Journal of Medicine
, 1995; 333(4): 263.

31
Becker and Selden,
The Body Electric
: 235.

CHAPTER FOUR: THE LANGUAGE OF THE CELL

1
J. Benveniste, B. Arnoux and L. Hadji, ‘Highly dilute antigen increases coronary flow of isolated heart from immunized guinea-pigs’,
FASEB Journal
, 1992; 6: A1610. Also presented at ‘Experimental Biology – 98 (FASEB)’, San Francisco, 20 April 1998.

2
M. Schiff,
The Memory of Water: Homeopathy and the Battle of New Ideas in the New Science
(HarperCollins, 1994): 22.

3
Ibid.: 26.

4
E. Davenas
et al
., ‘Human basophil degranulation triggered by very dilute antiserum against IgE’,
Nature
, 1988; 333(6176): 816 – 8.

5
J. Maddox, ‘Editorial’,
Nature
, 1988; 333: 818; see also M. Schiff,
The Memory of Water
: 86.

6
J. Benveniste’s reply to
Nature
, 1988; 334: 291. For a full account of the
Nature
visit, see J. Maddox,
et al
., ‘High-dilution experiments a delusion’,
Nature
, 1988; 334: 287 – 90; J. Benveniste’s reply to
Nature
; also Schiff,
Memory of Water
, chapter 6, pp. 85 – 95.

7
Schiff,
Memory of Water
: 57.

8
Ibid.: 103.

9
J. Benveniste, ‘Understanding digital biology’, unpublished position paper, June 14, 1998; also interviews with J. Benveniste, October 1999.

10
J. Benveniste,
et al
., ‘Digital recording/transmission of the cholinergic signal,’
FASEB Journal
, 1996, 10: A1479; Y. Thomas,
et al
., ‘Direct transmission to cells of a molecular signal (phorbol myristate acetate, PMA) via an electronic device,’
FASEB Journal
, 1995; 9: A227; J. Aïssa
et al
., ‘Molecular signalling at high dilution or by means of electronic circuitry’,
Journal of Immunology
, 1993; 150: 146A; J. Aïssa, ‘Electronic transmission of the cholinergic signal’,
FASEB Journal
, 1995; 9: A683; Y. Thomas, ‘Modulation of human neutrophil activation by “electronic” phorbol myristate acetate (PMA)’,
FASEB Journal
, 1996; 10: A1479. (For a full listing of papers, see www.digibio.com).

11
J. Benveniste, P. Jurgens
et al
., ‘Transatlantic transfer of digitized antigen signal by telephone link’,
Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
, 1997; 99: S175.

12
Schiff,
Memory of Water
: 14 – 15.