Patient–Practitioner–Remedy: Quantum Interactions in Living Systems

Quantum Evidence from Biologic Systems

In 1997, I gave a presentation with this title to the Frontier Sciences Department at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA citing experimental and clinical evidence in support of the thesis that a living system is a macroscopic quantum system. ² This needs to be established if Milgrom's work is to have any relevance to CAM. My regret is that this evidence and its later update ³ have not proved to be “overwhelming.”

In 1973, I was first introduced to Herbert Fröhlich, Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Liverpool, and our cooperation ⁴ continued until his death in 1991. Measurements on humidified biomolecules gave very large dielectric constants consistent with a long-range order. Fröhlich asked me for diamagnetic measurements. These were 10,000 times greater than to be expected and confirmed a long-range order comparable with that needed for low-temperature superconductivity. The effect disappeared above a critical magnetic field, suggesting coherence domains as in the Meissner effect.

Magnetic fields affected the enzymatic activity of lysozyme using Micrococcus lysodeikticus as the substrate. Its protocol produces not only cell fragments but also viable cells in the resting phase. Some effects did not occur in the enzyme alone but only in the enzyme–substrate complex. The onset magnetic field strength affecting lysozyme activity corresponded to a single quantum of magnetic flux linking the measured cell cross-section. Integer numbers of magnetic flux quanta linking Escherichia coli cells in culture affected the mean-generation time with a probability of less than 1 in 2 million for a chance effect. Fröhlich then remarked that if a system can respond to single flux quanta, it should also show the Josephson Effect. We were able to measure its frequency-to-voltage and voltage-to-frequency interconversions (500 MHz/μV) in thin films of lysozyme.

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) involves quantized angular momentum, and we were able to show effects in living systems exposed to NMR conditions. Bovine eye lenses in vitro developed subcapsular cataracts in the posterior cortex of the lens when exposed to very-low-intensity microwave radiation if modulated at a frequency satisfying proton-NMR conditions in the ambient geomagnetic field. In dielectrophoresis experiments with normal diploid Saccharomyces cerevisiae, resonance effects were obtained under conditions of electron spin resonance and NMR for ¹H, ³¹P, ²³Na, ³⁷Cl, and ³⁹K again with an onset at a magnetic field corresponding to a single quantum of magnetic flux linking the measured cell cross-section.

Quantum Evidence from Patients

In 1982, the problems of patients who had become hypersensitive to their electrical environment came to find me. Usually, these patients already have ongoing multiple chemical sensitivities. Their sensitivity appears as a failure in some patient-specific regulatory system usually involving the autonomic nervous system. Initial tests using laboratory oscillators could reproduce their symptoms, which turned out to be the same as those produced by chemical challenge. Frequency was the determining factor. Their reactions could be provoked with certain frequencies of the A-field from a toroidal coil and neutralized with other frequencies. The A-field affects the wave function.

The Miller provocation-neutralization technique in allergy therapy involves a sequence of serial dilutions of the allergen. These alternately provoke and neutralize the patient's symptoms. Scanning through the frequencies applied to a toroidal coil in the vicinity of the patient has a similar effect, and those frequencies that neutralize the symptoms provide a therapy. It is not practicable to provide each patient with electrical oscillators for therapeutic frequencies. However, these frequencies can be imprinted into water and used like a homeopathic remedy.

“Water Memory”

“Water Memory” ⁴ requires a critical number of protons to form domains of coherence such that their proton precession can synchronize to any applied frequency. The number of protons must be exactly that needed to generate a local magnetic field that satisfies proton precession conditions. The frequency imprinted into water is that of the alternating magnetic vector potential (A-field). Mechanical succussion or a magnetic B-field is needed for potentization, which involves momentum change rather than energy change. The theoretical bandwidth of a frequency imprint in water is the square root of the number of coherent protons involved in the memory. This is less than one part per million and has been confirmed by measurement. I have demonstrated the physical basis for such frequency measurements. ⁵

The A-field was originally introduced as a mathematical necessity to account for the B-field being in closed loops. In a quantum system, it appears in the wave equation as a chemical potential and can alter the phase of the wave function. A toroidal coil contains its B-field within the ring (torus) but is surrounded by its A-field. An alternating A-field generates an electric field in space. In a coherent system, it gives a voltage across the coherence length at the frequency of the current.

Homeopathic Potencies and Frequencies

Chemicals that can hydrogen bond to vicinal water develop characteristic frequency signatures through fractal-related far-infrared transitions involving the water spectrum. The “Mother Tincture” provides the initial frequency signature from which the frequency pattern characterizing a homeopathic potency is derived by dilution and succussion. The frequencies of living systems fluctuate in a quasiperiodic manner, but toxic chemicals may insert their own frequency signature and prevent this fluctuation. Frequency imprints can pass from mother to daughter cells in vitro.

In a coherent system, frequency has fractal-like properties. The constant parameter becomes the coherence length and frequency becomes proportional to the coherence propagation velocity. There can be many frequencies, each proportional to a velocity the system can support. These interlink effects in the chemical, technical, and biologic frequency bands. Alex Hankey discusses fractality on pages 000–000. Between health and disease there is a region of chaos. ⁶ CAM modalities can operate in this region to restore a stable state of health without waiting for a stable disease state to arise.

The Aharanov-Bohm effect can be another indicator of a quantum system if A-fields produce a phase difference resulting in a measurable effect. I have demonstrated this with respect to coherence propagating through water and metals using the dowsing reaction, where highly coherent Heart and Pericardium acupuncture meridian frequencies between the left and right sides of the body become phase unbalanced. For 50 “healthy” subjects, the mean Heart meridian frequency coherence was 7.802±0.002 Hz (standard deviation).

Entanglement

A pair of macroscopic quantum systems can become entangled as described by Milgrom. For example, a Reike healer was operating 200 miles from the patient; both imprinted their body frequencies into vials of water at the same times; subsequent measurements showed their body frequencies gradually moved in synchronism.

Pairs of tadpoles can entangle so their endogenous frequencies become synchronized. When separated, synchronicity is retained, provided they remain in optical contact at yellow or shorter wavelengths. The critical angle of refraction for loss of synchronism at an air/water interface gives a superluminal coherence velocity.

Milgrom's PPR Model

Rowlands ⁷ has described a nilpotent Dirac equation that contains by implication all the information needed for the entire structure of physics and provides a computational approach to both physics and mathematics. Here, the quantum system and its environment are mirror images of each other, so a change in one leads to a change in the other. Locality and nonlocality are fundamental components of such a system. “Classical” physics is concerned with measurement. A quantum system being measured is no longer isolated; the fact of measurement places constraints on it.

I have shown ⁵ that the three terms of the Dirac equation (energy, momentum, and rest mass) can be expressed in terms of three frequencies so that certain combinations of frequencies should also have nilpotent (squaring to 0) properties. This occurs among the four endogenous frequencies in each of the three Yin and Yang channels of the acupuncture meridians. The allergy neutralization frequency and the frequency pattern of a homeopathic potency (Milgrom's Remedy) for a patient are also nilpotent to the patient's body frequencies. Much of technology and medicine only requires “Classical” physics but, it is not reasonable to deny the existence of, for example, the photoelectric effect because it is not “Classical” any more than it is to deny the possibility of quantum phenomena in homeopathy and PPR interactions.

Subjective observations with his microscopes showed van Leeuwenhoek that cells existed. Galileo's subjective telescope observations enabled him to say, “But see it moves!”. PPR interactions are subjective, like dowsing. Partially understood truths may only be expressible through Milgrom's mathematics or Hankey's poetry.