GIANT GROWTH WITH LASER LIGHT. ESOTERA 28:204-208

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GIANT GROUITH UJITH LASER LIGHT
Esotera 28:204-208, march 77
/-Article by Scott Hill, biophysicist and parapsychologist,
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Alma-Ata, the capital of the Kazakh 5SR, was the scene of
an unusual conference in October 1976. Its theme was fron-
tier areas of science. Scott Hill, (cf. picture), an Esotera
staffer, was one of three guests from the Jest invited to this
meeting because of their close contacts with Soviet scientists.
In this part of his detailed report, he describes Russian re-
sults with the use of laser light for promotion of plant growth.
/Text7 During the author's stay at the Congress on Frontier
sciences held in Alma-Ata in 1976, he had occasion to take
various meals which included vegetables. The vegetables were
from the agricultural research station operated at the con-
ference site. He learned that the vegetables had been treat-
ed with laser light. According to Or Inyushin, who at 35 is
the youngest biology professor in the USSR, plants grow more
rapidly, attain a larger size and bear more fruit after they
(or only the seeds) have been irradiated for a short time with
laser light. This is not an insignificant increase of 1 or
2 percent but one on the order of 30 percent. This is of
course taken very seriously in a country that must import its
food at a time of inflationary rates on the international food
market.
The author discovered by chance that this technique had also
been used since 1970 by a team of Australian scientists who,
as strange as it appears did not have any knowledge of the
Russian work (at least they cited only British sources in
their report which appeared in the British, science magazine
Nature.) This constituted a slight puzzle: Who had actually
discovered this technique? The author found at least five
different groups in various parts of the world that appeared
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to have stumbled on the same thought independently and begun
experimental development. There were two groups in Test Ger-
many, one in Australia, one in Hungary and of course the Soviets
themselves. Did they know about each other? The author found
it strange that none of the groups mentioned written refe-
rences to any other group in their reports. Concomitant dis-
coveries -- synchronism or stealing of ideas? The author does
not know yet.
In Part II of this report ("Light Surgery," Esotera p 107,
2/77), we explained that patients showed noteworthy improve-
ment when they are treated with laser beams. The individuals
involved of course knew that they were receiving this therapy
and probably thought that it should help them. Could it be
(as some skeptics assume) that the disease was cured by psy-
chosomatic factorsor more precisely by auto-suggestion? In
this modern age when physicians are beginning to think about
the fact that nearly all diseases, including cancer, have at
least one psychosomatic component, could it not be that this
knowledge, even if it remains unconscious, might have pro-
duced the amazing results. A clearcut method of checking
this would be to use lower forms of life where there is no
"psyche", for exaple in the plant kingdom. We shall there-
fore consider "Gurvich radiation" (cf. Part I, "Healing With
Light", Esotera, p 13, 1/77) in greater details
Detection ^f mitogenetic Radiation
Although the use of "biological detectors" is the simplest way
to detect effects of mitogenetic radiation, many biologists
found this procedure unsatisfactory. However, several early
investigators such as Rodionov and Frank (1934) and the Germans
Siebert and Seffert (1936) were able to detect UV emission in
cells with the use of gas-discharge counters. Russian research-
ers have been using "photomultipliers" that count photons since
1957.
It is not easy to count small quantities of photons. The mito-
genetic rays are very weak and they adhere closely to the "back-
ground" rays. Consequently, the photon detectors must be cooled
to very low temperatures (liquid nitrogen or even liquid hydro-
gen) in order to reduce the "dark current" enough so that 105 pho-
tons/sq cm can be detected. This is a very small flow of photons.
It therefore took until the mid-sixties for cooling technology
to be sufficiently developed to obtain reliable detection.
A few other unusual circumstances associated with Gurvich radia-
tion made it difficult to accept the matter as a real phenomenon.
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There was the fact that only weak rays could be used. If the
UV light on the biological material was too strong, the effect
was impeded. The cellular chain reaction of mitoses (cell
nucleus divisions) also stopped if the volume of the cell
culture was reduced below a "critical mass." Both reverse
tendencies contributed to making the entire matter appear
ridiculous. However, if we consider them in the proper way,
these aspects make it possible to understand the true mechanism
of the Gurvich effect.
The parameters of "dark" chemoluminescence in the UV range
are connected with certain properties of the light-emitting
molecule, such as its structure, probabilities and energy quan-
ties in electronic transmission and binding properties. Rus-
sian investigators suspect that weakly bound electrons and
groups of free radicals play a part and they therefore developed
a special theory of "bioplasma", which allegedly serves as an
explanation for the weak reciprocal effect.
To demonstrate that the radiation exists is one thing. How-
ever, it is quite a different matter to show that the emission
and absorption of UV is one of the control mechanisms in the
cell rather than a rare and random effect on the system in
question. Could the "mitogenetic radiation" be a type of "waste
light," the excess photons from a much stronger energetic pro-
cess? Hence, e.g. the mere observation that the emission of
several cells affects other cells does not yet signify that
such an effect is of any biological importance. Similarly,
the theoretical possibility of transference of extensive infor-
mation at frequencies in the visible range of electromagnet
radiation (light) does not encompass the fact that the informa-
tion required for activation and control of the various cyto-
chemical* processes is received in precisely this manner (this
is assumed for example by Kasnachejev and his associates). Can
mitosis be transmitted and received like a radio broadcast?
We must bear the above in mind in the discussion of (even)
wilder conclusions that were suggested from the work of Gurvich-
Kasnachejev by the Norwegian physician V. Schjelderup. He notes
that if a bacterial culture ^r cell culture is intoxicated or
infected with a virus and if a neighboring culture dies due to
some reciprocal electromagnetic action, it is not the virus
itself which kills but the electromagnetic representation ^f this
virus. Ultimately, this means that with suitable techniques
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*Cyt^... .. prefix of compounds that mean cell, cell-.
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this electromagnetic "image" of the virus can perhaps be
emitted by television to infect cultures -- or humans(?),
that are very far away.
We hasten to add that this was in no way demonstrated as
a possibility. mitogenetic radiation is effective only over
short distances of a few centimers and there is no certainty
that this radiation can be transmitted by television, much
less in the proper dosage. However, all research in this
area is not openly published. The saying goess a little know-
ledge is a dangerous thing... However, the final results may
turn out, Soviet biologists concur that these reciprocal ef-
fects should continue to be studied. Scientists in Kazakhstan
have applied the theory in experiments to increase the produc-
tivity of plant growth in agriculture and in medical research
for new therapeutic procedures. It is only a matter of time
until biologists in the West reach the same conclusions.
Ten Million Cells Per Second
The German biophysicist Dr Fritz A. Popp has already carried
out theoretical work on the subject at Marburg University
(cf. also Bild der Wissenschaft, Jan. 1976). Popp points out
that in the human body more than ten million cells die every
second. Normally, these cells must be replaced by new cells,
which are created from the old cells by the process of mitosis.
Whatever the system that regulates this equilibrium may be,
it must be controlled in a very sensitive manner and it must
"know" at any given time how many dead cells are to be replaced.
Could electromagnetic waves be the answer?
Although the medical significance of the use of laser biosti-
mulation is sufficiently puzzling, other developments related
to the malthusian* growth of the population and the flattening
curve of food production may be more important. The satirical
author Jonathan Swift had a solutions Instead of producing more
and more children we should eat them! Governments must develop
plans that are more feasible, such as methods geared to an in-
crease in the size of foods. Whoever can claim to produce such
an increase, even if it is only one percent, would earn a govern-
ment prize and a substantial salary besides.
Giant Fruits of the Future
In Kazakhstan, laser-stimulated tomatoes were enlarged to
half a kilogram. The tomatoes tasted by the author also had
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*According to the teaching of the British economic theoreti-
cian Malthus that the population shoutsmore rapid tendential
growth than crop yields (population law).
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an extraordinarily sweet taste. Apples were routinely en-
larged in Kazakhstan to weights of one kilogram and more,
even without the aid of lasers. Tomatoes weighing half a
kilogram do not appear as large there as they do to us.
According to even more recent data -- and perhaps independent
of the Russian, several Australian plant physiologists in
Adelaide discovered that their young cabbate plants appeared
to develop somewhat more when a weak red light shone on them
(actually less than three milliwatts), and even when the laser
was directed at the earth from more than a quarter of a mile
away (approximately 400 m). In their report (cf Nature, 1970),
they described this development as quietly as if h y were ex-
plaining the newest fertilizer, even though they were working
with illumination periods of only 1-3 seconds when exposing
the cabbage seeds. The "response reached a maximum at approxi-
mately 100 seconds of illumination; however, illumination pe-
riods of more than 1000 seconds impeded the reaction. The
results are not limited to cabbages -- a fortunate thing for
the Australian population which would have a hard time if it
wanted to get used to a diet of borscht.
Dther plant types, such as the Japanese morning glory (Phra-
bitus nil Chois var. Viltet), altered their morphological
development in response to the red laser light. The Australian
scientists carried out experiments indicating that the light
activates the "phytochrome system," i.e. a photosensitive me-
chanism that occurs in the entire plant kingdom. The Australians
discovered this by chance when they used ordinary flood lights
to illuminate barley fields at night. They observed that the
period in which the field of crops matured could be significantly
reduced by three to four weeks. They were lucky when they
tried it with laser light.
Since lasers with an output range of 2 milliwatts are in the
meantime being manufactured commercially and cost only between
$100-$500, the time is perhaps not far away when every gardner
will add a little "light treatment" to the usual watering and
fertilization. The Australian investigators have been working
on these problems since 1970, and the Russians since 1963.
Light -- The Key to the Cancer Problem
Or Fritz A. Popp of Marburg University pointed out the possi-
bility that a specific energy transmission between a "cancer
producer" and a biological receptor organ might be animpor-
tant and perhaps the decisive step in the development of cancer.
In summary,. his theory is thathumans lose ten million cells
per second, the loss of which can be compensated by super
rapid information. Modulated sound and light waves transmit
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as biosignals between the cells the information required for
regulation of cellular growth.. According to Or Popp, "Incor-
rect information causes cancer."
This finding appears to concur with the work of the earlier
Gurvich group, but not with that of the more recent investi-
gations in Alma-Ate. Or Popp appears to have reached the
same direction of thoughtindependent of the Soviet investi-
gators. For as previously indicated, light is involved in
his considerations regarding the process of cancer develop-
ment as the conveyer of the bio-information which, when it
is incorrect perhaps gives rise to cancerous cell prolifera-
tion.
Picture captionss
P 205: Partial view of the Agricultural Research Institute
for the Use of Laser Beams for Promotion of Plant
Growth in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan (USSR). Here, under
laser illumination, tomatoes were "pushed up" to half
a kilogram and applesup to one kilogram.
P 206; A room in the Aksai Clinical Hospital in Alma-Ata,
where amon other methods laser therapy is also used
routinely left: electroencephalograph, right: plesmo-
graph and electrocardiograph).
P 207:
Top:
The
the
the
LG-75 Soviet gas laser (25 mUJ,front) and
carbon dioxide gas laser (35 kw, rear) in
Alma-Ata Biophysical"Unilaboratory".
Left:
Control apparatus outside a laser treatment room.
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