I cured myself of scepticism using a Rife machine. Joe Street wrote:
> I Tom; > > I was thinking more on this after I posted and realized just what you > are saying. I asked myself ok what if heterodynes > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterodyne> were generated > in some object smaller than a micron and I was looking at it with a > conventional microscope. I suppose that I would see a light source > but I wouldn't be able to resolve it's shape due to the limitations of > the optics. More comments below... > > > Thomas Kelly wrote: > >> Joe, >> You wrote: >> "This would produce harmonic mixing and would result in the >> generation of two new wavelengths which are the sum and difference >> frequencies of the original light sources." >> >> I don't plan to try it at home, but I don't doubt this to be true. >> I can't see how stimulating an organism to emit light would get >> around the difficulties of resolution at magnifications necessary to >> see viruses .... alive or not. >> Organisms that emit light naturally are still subject to the >> limitations nature seems to have imposed on our various light >> microscopes. Fluoroscopic techniques .... binding fluorescent >> antibodies to cells ... allows for ID/sorting of cells >> including microbes, but the glowing cells can only be magnified to >> about 1000X (light microscope) 1400X with UV microscopes. > > Exactly. > >> >> I am curious about the "harmonic mixing" you refer to. >> The monochromatic light sources .... laser generated? > > They could be although they wouldn't have to be monochromatic. A broad > band light source containing spectral components that are suitably > spaced to create the difference frequency we need ( in the visible > spectrum) would work fine. So then I asked myself why I have never > seen anything curious like this. We were talking about mixing two UV > wavelengths (due to the ability of the short wavelengths to offer > superior resolution) but if harmonic mixing could take place as we are > talking about it could happen with wavelengths from any part of the > visible or invisible spectrum. Your typical optical scope uses a > halogen bulb which is a heavy radiator in the infrared. Harmonic > mixing of sub visible spectra should result in heterodynes (sum > frequencies) up in the visible. I mean light from the infrared end ( > say 900 nm) could mix with light from the UV end ( say 400 nm) to > result in a difference frequency of 450 THz which would have a > wavelength of 660 nm right in the red wavelength area of the visible > spectrum. So why has no-one noticed this? The answer is probably due > to switching speed. In a semiconducting junction pairs of charge > carriers are formed when a current flows. When the wave polarity > reverses these charge carriers have to move to prevent current flow in > the opposite direction ( this is the essence of the switching action > which IS the non linearity which creates the heterodyne effect) If the > charge carriers cannot move fast enough in the material to perform > this function then the material will not act as a harmonic mixer. > Switching speeds would have to be exceedingly fast to heterodyne > light. For example for a 500nm wavelength ( mid visible spectrum) the > frequency of this light wave would be 600 e12 Hz! (THz) The fastest > semiconductors manufactured are about 10 000 times slower than this > (60 Ghz to maybe 100 Ghz). Superconducting josephson junctions are > touted to be about ten times faster than conventional semiconductors > but that still only gets us up to 1 THz. I was initially wondering if > something in a DNA strand could act as a switch at these frequencies > but of course if it were possible we would see the colours of the > rainbow emmanating from some points in the cell nucleus which would be > too small to resolve. The world would probably look quite different if > harmonic mixing of light was happening anywhere! > >> Only two wavelengths generated? .... one the sum and one the >> difference of the original wavelengths .... No heat? > > Some heat would be dissipated as there are always losses in > materials. The amount would equal the energy in the incoming spectra > minus the energy in the radiated spectra. > >> I ask about the heat because the brightness of the field of >> view of a microscope is inversely proportional to the magnification. >> At 6000X a very high illumination, or emission of light would be >> necessary in order to see anything. Heat could be bad. >> Would the object continue to emit light after the sources were >> stopped (a la glow in the dark frisbees ... electrons doing quantum >> leaps)? Would there be pulses or continuous flow? > > No the radiated light would only be the result of mixing of components > in the incomming spectra. It would be continuous if the lamp was on > continuously. > >> >> "This would require that both the source waves be focused onto a >> point whch has the property of a semiconducting junction ." >> >> The points we are referring to are microscopic ..... a trillion >> viruses in a period (New Times Roman 12) at the end of a sentence. >> I'm only asking, Joe .... Is it reasonably possible to achieve >> harmonic mixing on a microscope slide and would it somehow allow for >> magnifications, using glass lenses, that are not achievable w/o it? > > Now that I have thought about it more I guess the answer is no. > > Joe > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Biofuel mailing list >Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > >Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > >Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): >http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
