Einstein’s vision of medicine

Considering it is now nearly 120 years ago that Einstein proposed the theory of mass-energy equivalence encompassed by his general theory of relativity and the world’s most famous equation, E = mc², many would argue, us included, that it is remarkable that energy medicine has not by now become the mainstay of medicine as predicted by Einstein himself.

So why is today’s mainstream system of medicine not the medicine of frequencies? Is it because the science of energy medicine hasn’t progressed sufficiently, or is it because the scientific basis of energy medicine isn’t recognized, or because it hasn’t been demonstrated to be clinically effective, at least consistently enough?

It’s certainly true that the science hasn’t progressed as much as the likes of Einstein, Nikola Tesla, Albert Abrams, Royal Raymond Rife and Fritz-Albert Popp, who were among the pioneers  in the emerging field of bioenergetics in the early twentieth century, might have anticipated.

Frequencies are vibrations or oscillations of energy. Energy can be transferred in a variety of ways, principally in electrical, electrochemical or electromagnet forms.

Let’s start at the beginning.

Electricity runs whole cities and factories and provides the energy for lighting and powering most people’s homes. But it also exists in nature, both within and without living systems.

It is, in essence, the flow of electromagnetic energy through negatively charged sub-atomic particles, called electrons, along a conductor, such as a nerve fibre or a copper wire.

Electricity exists in every living being. Our hearts wouldn’t pump, our brains wouldn’t work, and our nerves wouldn’t fire without it. But electricity also exists in nature outside living systems, such as in the form of lightning.

Electricity — or this electromagnetic energy flow involving negatively charged electrons — can also induce chemical changes. The scientific field that studies the interconversion of chemical and electrical energy is called electrochemistry and our bodies rely on electrochemical gradients every time a nerve impulse is transmitted.

These nerve impulses vary in speed from rates of less than 1 meter per second for a pain signal, through to over 100 meters per second when we activate muscle fibers.

This is much slower than the flow of electricity in a copper wire in a typical domestic residence (typically around 200 million meters per second, around 90% of the speed of light).

While we know this happens through the changes in membrane potential that occur through polarization and depolarization of nerve fibers caused by the influx and efflux of positively charged sodium, potassium or calcium ions via voltage-gated ion channels, there may be other mechanisms at work as well.

This includes the possibility that biophotons (particles of light energy emitted by all living organisms) trigger such reactions and act as quantum controllers of life. More on this later.

Electromagnetism is a type of energetic force that acts between charged particles that is a combination of both electrical and magnetic forces. Electromagnetic waves, unlike sound waves, can travel through a vacuum (including space) because they are massless.

Electromagnetism has been exploited in a wide range of technologies, from the creation of the loudspeaker, induction hobs, through to radio, television and wireless radiation and in x-ray machines.

Electromagnetic waves are propagated by oscillating electric and magnetic waves at right angles to each other (see Fig. 1 below).

Many will be familiar with some of their properties, such as interference (e.g. of radio or television signals) and diffraction (e.g. when you see the rainbow colors in a crystal or on the surface of a CD).

Key features of electromagnetic waves are the wavelength, which is the distance between wave peaks (measured in nanometers, meters or even kilometers), the amplitude (height) of wave, generally related to power and measured in Gauss units and frequency i.e. the number of waves (cycles) that pass a given point per second, measured in cycles per second using the Hertz (Hz) unit, where 1 Hz = 1 cycle per second.

As you’ll see in the figure below, visible light is a form of electromagnetic wave. The speed of light (nearly 300 million meters per second) is faster than anything we know of in the universe — because a light wave, like any electromagnetic wave, is itself massless.

Electricity, by contrast, involves the transfer of electromagnetic forces between sub-atomic electrons that are particles with mass, albeit minuscule. In the copper wiring of a house, the electricity wave might move at around two-thirds this speed, say 200 million meters per second.

The electrons themselves actually move very slowly, as well as in multiple directions, colliding with each other, generating the familiar heat associated with electricity in a wire.

The average net speed of movement, taking into account collisions and the backwards and forward movements in AC electrical systems as developed by Tesla, result in typical electron drift velocities of considerably less than 1 millimeter per second in the copper wire of your household electrical system.

Some of these technologies aim to measure and assess the state of the human biofield, and many also offer treatments that aim to improve its coherence with a view to preventing or treating disease.

This really talks to the modality of frequency medicine that Einstein alluded to around a century ago. We should recognize that many of these technologies are at different stages of development.

Some have been evaluated clinically or under laboratory conditions much more extensively than others, while others have been little publicized owing to concerns by their makers or sellers that medical regulators will shut them down.

Others still, have been pushed aggressively by zealous marketeers, sometimes with little or no evidence of benefit, and even without the support of any plausible mechanism.

Presently — it has to be said — we are living in something of a Wild West when it comes to frequency medicine devices, and the German-speaking countries that have had the longest tradition of research and development in this field, still lead the world globally.

But as the field gains popularity all over the world, it is surely high standards of ethics and self-regulation that will offer the best chance of suitable, safe and effective technologies becoming accessible to the millions who might benefit.

There is no doubt in our minds that Einstein was right in that the medicine of the future will be the medicine of frequencies.

But to get there, we still have a long way to go in helping sufficient numbers of people, including doctors and other health professionals, to first understand that electromagnetism currently offers the best explanation for the driving force of life.