Recovering the Rife Microscope
- 4-5-2006
- Categorized in: Research
Recovering the Rife Microscope
by Mark Hugo
During the 1930's there was a gentleman named "Royal Rife" who claimed to have an optical microscope which was capable of 10,000 X's magnification. The problem with Dr. Rife's claims, as can readily be seen from examining these websites is that there is a well known phenomenon in optics called the 'Abbe Limit' or the 'Fraunhoffer Diffraction Limit'. What this means for optical microscopy is that due to problems with the diffraction of light around bodies of the size of the wavelength of visible light (550 to 200 nanometers), the maximum optical magnification (useful) is limited to about 2000 X's.
Yet Dr. Rife, as can be seen on many websites, clearly claimed to be obtaining magnifications of the order of 10,000 to 40,000 X's. Furthermore, based on his 'live, real time' observations of bacteria and viral action, Rife also developed the 'Rife Ray Device'. The 'Rife Ray Device' is essentially a "low grade" inert gas MASER (microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation). It is stimulated by an RF (Radio Frequency) signal applied to a He/Ne or He/Ar tube. Typically in the 20-30 MHz range. This RF signal is also amplitude modulated by some sort of audio frequency.
What Dr. Rife discovered was that using his microscope he could observe that as various audio frequencies were applied to the 'Ray Device', he could find a particular frequency for a particular organism which would cause the organism to break apart. As I demonstrate in this paper, the magnification powers attained by Rife were feasible beyond the limitations of normal optical microscopes because he was not using a normal optical microscope. The Rife Microscope is in fact an "optical interferometry" microscope, which is to say that it was a "holographic microscope" in the nature of operation. Thus, the interference patterns that would normally distort an optical signal beyond recognition in a conventional microscope did not cause problems for Rife, as his equipment was generating an image from the interference patterns themselves!
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PDF Link: Recovering the Rife Microscope
Site: Dr. James Bayer Online
argument is consice and convincing. Wish all investigations into "unusual claims" were this good.
inventions/discoveries, I thought it wasn't
possible, but it's stood the test of TIME! So,
I'm saving THIS article to my FAV's!
The paper posted at
http://physics.technion.ac.il/~optics/article_o.pd...
Tells how to use a set of connected interferometers to
process a monochromatic image so as to cancel the
interference fringes and obtain resolution beyond
Abbe. Re-reading Rifes verbal descriptions of what he
did to obtain his resolution, it seems he had a ganged
set of interfereometers intentionally or accidentally,
which accomplished this goal. Dr. Lipson has told me
that after the graduate students got their Phd's for
this work, work at his institute in this direction
stopped. PITY THAT! However, gives a basis for
a clever person to duplicate Rife's microscope.
Mark Hugo April 2, 2007