For millennia humans have looked up at the stars and contemplated nature’s secrets. Our ancestors have observed terrifying lightning and thunder storms, ice ages and constant change to the landscape. Rituals, customs, traditions, statues, monuments, stories, mythologies, religions and cultures were greatly inspired by the electromagnetic force of light, magnetic and electric fields and charge. As time went on, greater scientific and mathematical explanations were deduced, providing logic to some of the spooky behaviours of light, charge and the quantum world.
In 1662 the French mathematician Pierre de Fermat discovered the principle for least time. This principle is known in optics as Fermat’s Principle. With this discovery, Fermat proved that a ray of light followed the path between two points that took the least amount of time.
Over 100 years later in the early 1800’s, Michael Faraday, best known for his discovery of electromagnetic induction, was revolutionary in describing electric fields and electromagnetic induction. His contributions to electrical engineering and electrochemistry are due to the fact that he was responsible for introducing the concept of ‘field’ in physics to describe electromagnetic interaction. He originally coined the term ‘electric field’ to describe the electric-field strength at a point in space as the force experienced by a theoretical positive “test” charge lodged at that location. When that test charge experiences high force, the field strength is deemed high. Low force implies low field strength.
Continuing in 1827, the quantum story really began to pick up steam with the British botanist Robert Brown. Brown observed the random walk of atoms in his samples and described the statistical motions of these atoms in plants. He coined these atomic movements Brownian motion. This discovery implied that the second law of thermodynamics was not an absolute, but a statistical law. Later in 1867, the physicist James Clerk Maxwell proved the statistical nature of the law mathematically. Maxwell then came up with a term called ‘Maxwell demon’ to describe its ability. In essence, the mathematics described a rectifying current in a modern semiconductor. Some 38 years later, Albert Einstein knew where to look to show that the ‘demon’ Maxwell had described in 1867 could actually be observed in the world. Of Einstein’s 4 miracle papers of 1905, the one on Brownian Motion was the one most cited. Yet, Einstein won no prizes for it.
The German physician and physicist, Julius Mayer, was best known for enunciating in 1841 one of the original statements of the conservation of energy, namely that “energy can be neither created nor destroyed “. During 1841, Mayer completed his first scientific paper titled “On the Quantitative and Qualitative Determination of Forces “, in which he postulated a “conservation law of force” (meaning energy). Myer also presented a value in numerical terms for the mechanical equivalent of heat. He also was the first person to describe the vital chemical process now referred to as oxidation as the primary source of energy for any living creature. Mayer was the first person to state the law of conservation of energy. The law of the conservation of energy states that the total mechanical energy of a system remains constant in any isolated system of objects that interact with each other only by way of forces that are conservative. Mayer and Joule really were the people who did the experimental work to prove the first law of thermodynamics.
Quantum Mechanics then caught the eyes of the two genius physicists in the late 1800’s, Max Planck and Albert Einstein. Albert Einstein is considered to be the key thought leader in the development of Quantum. However, there were also many other brilliant and bright scientists who contributed, complemented and improved on his work.
Quantum mechanics foundations and theories led to intimately related fields of science such as. Quantum Biology, Quantum Optics, Quantum Photonics, Biophotonics, Photobiology and Bioelectronics. But first…
Nicola Tesla, coined the greatest inventor ever, was also a physicist, and electrical engineer of unusual intellectual brilliance. He contributed a great deal to electromagnetic theory. Tesla along with Charles Steinmetz created the electric power grid. Tesla also invented the Spark Plug, X-Rays, Neon, Lasers, and the basic technology behind Radar and Robotics. His work led to many other scientist theories describing an electric universe connecting all things.
Oliver Heaviside was an English electrical engineer, mathematician, and physicist who adapted complex numbers to the study of electrical circuits, invented mathematical techniques for the solution of differential equations (equivalent to Laplace transforms), reformulated Maxwell’s field equations in terms of electric and magnetic forces and energy flux, and independently co-formulated vector analysis.
In the late 1800’s, Kristian Birkeland, a Norwegian scientist, developed theories of atmospheric electric currents that elucidated the nature of the aurora borealis. The results of the Norwegian Polar Expedition conducted from 1899 to 1900 contained the first determination of the global pattern of electric currents in the polar region from ground magnetic field measurements. Birkeland developed a theory in which energetic electrons were ejected from sunspots on the solar surface, directed to the Earth, and guided to the Earth’s polar regions by the geomagnetic field where they produced the visible aurora.
The story continue with Quantum Mechanics (QM)…
QM’s development occurred over many decades, beginning as a solution to experiments that the math of classical mechanics could not explain. It began at the turn of the 20th century, around the same time that Albert Einstein published his theory of relativity. This theory was a separate mathematical revolution in physics that describes the motion of things at high speeds and acceleration. Unlike relativity, however, the origins of QM cannot be attributed to any one scientist. Rather, multiple scientists contributed to a foundation the revolutionary principles that gradually gained acceptance and experimental verification between 1900 and 1930.
In 1900 Max Planck showed us that colour frequencies in light were quantized. Meaning that, certain properties of light, such as position, speed and colour, can sometimes only occur in specific, set amounts. This became the first fundamental principle of quantum mechanics.
In 1905 Albert Einstein used Planck’s constant to show that energy is proportionate to the frequency, or colour, of light. Einstein used Planck’s term Quanta to describe his theory for Energy Quanta. He suggested this discrete packet of energy could be absorbed or generated only as a whole specifically when an atom “jumps” between quantised vibration rates, such as their orbits within atoms. This explained the basis for quantum biology and circadian biology today. It explains that a photon hits an electron (light hits matter), the electron is excited, releases energy, and falls back to the ground state. This is how energy appears to be transferred in biology.
In 1921, Albert Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the law of the photelectric effect. It is important to note that the physicist, Heinrich Hertz, contributed greatly to explanations for electromagnetism and electromagnetic waves in the mid 1800’s, giving rise to some Maxwell and Einstein’s formulations.
In 1923, Arthur Compton, who showed that light scattered by an electron beam changed in colour. This showed that particles of light (photons) were indeed colliding with particles of matter (electrons), thus confirming Einstein’s hypothesis. It was now clear that light could behave both as a wave and a particle. This became the second fundamental principle of Quantum Mechanics called light’s “wave-particle duality”.
In 1925 Werner Heisenberg and Erwin Schrödinger separately developed the theory of ‘Matrix Mechanics’ and ‘Wave Mechanics’ respectively. They were shown to be equivalent and they showed that until a system, or particle, is “observed” it is in a state of indeterminate superposition.
In 1927 Heisenberg created the “Uncertainty Principle” which states that one cannot simultaneously know the momentum and position of a given particle. In other words, the more precisely an electron’s position is known, the less precisely its speed can be known, and vice versa. The principles of quantization, wave-particle duality and the uncertainty principle formed the basis of Paul Dirac’s work in 1927. Paul Dirac was an English theoretical physicist who became one of the most significant physicists of the 20th century. Dirac applied a quantum understanding of electric and magnetic fields to give rise to the study of “quantum Field Theory” (QFT). QFT treated particles, such as photons and electrons, as excited states of an underlying physical field. QFT has served as the foundation for developing quantum theories about the four fundamental forces of nature: 1) electromagnetism, 2) the weak nuclear force, 3) the strong nuclear force and 4) gravity. The theories of Quantum Electrodynamics (QED), Electroweak Theory (EWT) and quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) together form the basis of the Standard Model of particle physics.
In 1928 Dirac published a paper on positrons which introduced the Dirac equation. The Dirac equation was a unification of quantum mechanics, special relativity, and the then-new concept of electron spin to explain the Zeeman effect.
There were several other key contributors, such as James Maxwell, who formulated equations that describe electricity, magnetism, and optics, laying the groundwork for atomic theory. Niels Henrik David Bohr who developed the orbital model of the atom and the first equations that underlie modern quantum mechanics. Satyendra Nath Bose, who’s work gave birth to quantum statistics and along with Einstein lead to the discovery of the sub atomic particle the ‘Boson’. William Hamilton, who was critical in the development of quantum theory.
In 1932 Werner Heisenberg won the Nobel Prize was awarded “for the creation of quantum mechanics”.
Subsequent related fields of science began to emerge including Quantum Optics, Quantum Photonics, Biophotonics, Photobiology and Bioelectronics.
In 1937 Dr. Albert Szent-Györgyi won the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for isolating Ascorbic Acid (vitamin C) and discovering the components and reactions of the citric acid cycle. His research into the living state and bioelectronics positioned him as the father of modern biochemistry. A cornerstone of his thinking was the long-range ordering of water, which he regarded as a major pillar in the structure of life. Szent-Györgyi once opined: “Life is water dancing to the tune of solids.” Without this dance, there could be no life.
Dr. Gilbert Ling is a cellular physiologist and electrophysiologist who pioneered many key realisations and theories between 1940’s and the 1960’s. Some of these included the general theory of the living cell, membrane and steady-state membrane pump theories and the Polarized-Oriented Multilayer theory of cell water. He explained how the properties and behaviour of intracellular water is much different from ‘bulk water’, water in a glass. He explained that cell membranes contained a number of pumps, such as the sodium-potassium pump and the calcium pump and channels that engage in active transport. Ling profoundly showed that there was more than ATP fuelling the enzymatic kinetics inside a cell.
In the early 2000’s, Professor Gerald Pollack a researcher in Washington state, USA, became deeply inspired by Gilbert Ling’s pioneering research and confirmed his work around the structured nature of cell water and its interaction with light. Pollack continued Ling’s realisation that water is not merely a background carrier of the common molecules of life, rather, it is a central player in all of life’s processes. Pollack presents many of the key properties of Water Physics and Water Chemistry in his book “The Fourth Phase of Water” where he coins the term ‘Exclusion Zone Water’ or ‘EZ’.
In the late 1940’s, Hannes Alfvén, the father of plasma physics and plasma cosmology, was an original contributor to the potent discipline of magnetohydrodynamics. He had a background in such varied and related fields as cosmic rays, fundamental electronics, aurorae, earth magnetism, sunspots, and the design of electron tubes. Electric and Magnetic Field were being shown to exit in space and provided an explanation for quantum electrical communication throughout the universe.
In the 1950’s Roy J. Glauber developed the quantum theory of optical coherence. His work on quantum optics and coherent states won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2005. He also developed the highly secure codes of quantum cryptography. Charles Kao’s work developing Fibre Optics also contribute to the development of the study of light and the electromagnetic force.
In the 1960’s, Dr. Robert O Becker was a pivotal researcher in the field of bioelectricity. He showed that collagen is a piezoelectric and flexoelectric transducer that converts light into mechanical energy. This mechanical energy can then be turned into a DC electric current as he demonstrates in his book titled ‘The Body Electric’. It is now commonly known that the fatty acid DHA and the photoreceptor Melanopsin possess the same properties and act in the same way as Collagen. In Dr. Andrew Marino’s book, titled ‘Going Somewhere’ explores his time working for Dr. Becker as his key assistant researcher in Becker’s laboratory beginning in the 1960’s. This book is a ‘must read’ as it dives into electromagnetism and the deep challenges cutting edge scientists face.
In the 1960’s and 1970’s, Dr. John Nash Ott a photo-biologist, worked as a time-lapse photographer for Walt Disney. His passion was working with light and living systems, including plants and animals. His work keenly focuses on how light can, in the correct spectral balance, enhance the health of plants and animals (including humans). He showed that all living organisms need the full spectrum of light provided by the sun in order to thrive. Much of his work on biophotonics is outlined in his book, titled “Health and Light”.
In 1964 Peter Higgs proposed the exitance of an elementary particle called the Higgs Boson which is produced in the quantum excitation with the Higgs Field. These Higgs Bosons interact with other particle like electrons. The Higgs Field is a field of energy that exists in every region of the universe. Particles that pass through this field are given mass through the fields use of the Higgs Boson. This describes a mechanism by which Einstein’s mass equivalents equation, , can take place. This theory gained much traction and in 2013 the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Peter Higgs and Francois Englert for discovered a mechanism in understanding the mass of subatomic particles.
In the 1970’s an ophthalmologist Dr. Fritz Hollwich, contributed greatly to the body of research on light by describing its interaction with metabolism. He showed that the colour frequency of light affects neurotransmitter and hormone levels in the brain and spinal cord. This in turn affect the rest of metabolism and biochemistry. Many of his key research findings and theories are summarised in his book titled ‘The Influence of Ocular Light Perception on Metabolism in Man and in Animal’.
Fritz-Albert Popp proposed a theory of biophotonics. This was revolutionary as he showed that all living cells emit ELF-UV light. Two of his most pivotal quotes are: “We are still on the threshold of fully understanding the complex relationship between light and life, but we can now say emphatically, that the function of our entire metabolism is dependent on light.” And “We know today that man, essentially, is a being of light.”
Professor Richard Feynman is a legendary figure in theoretical physics. His key work includes the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium and his proposition of the patron model in particle physics. However, Feynman’s book on quantum electrodynamics, titled QED, gave him the unofficial title of ‘Einstein of the late 20th century’. Feynman was perhaps the last physicist who realised that nature could never be replaced. He was noted saying “My math may be beautiful, but it doesn’t mean its right… nature is the experiment. Quantum Electrodynamic Theory is as good as we have got, but it doesn’t mean its exactly what nature uses…. look to nature, it never lies.”
Johnjoe McFadden and Jim Al-Khalili have contributed to the development of Quantum Biology. These two researchers connected and explained much of the QM research in the 1900’s to living systems bringing many key ideas to the mainstream in their 2015 book, titled “Life on The Edge”.
Roeland van Wijk is the scientific director of MELUNA Research and research advisor of The Sino-Dutch Centre for Preventive and Personalized Medicine. He has authored more than 350 scientific papers on topics in stress biology and biophotonics. Much of his work can be found in his book titled Light Shaping Life.
Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young’s research in the 2000’s brought them to an incredible scientific discovery intimately connecting all life on earth to the environment. They discovered the internal biologic clock mechanism and explained how plants, animals and humans adapt their biological rhythm so that it is synchronized with the Earth’s revolutions. This internal biologic clock expresses itself in all living things as a circadian rhythm. This rhythm is so built in that it mimics the day-night cycle of the earth even if placed indoors in darkness. These pivotal discoveries of the molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm earned Hall, Rosbash and Young the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Dr Alexander Wunsch is a physician, researcher and teacher in light medicine and photobiology. He has particularly contributed to quantum optics by explaining lights effects and beneficial / adverse health impacts of solar radiation and artificial light sources on endocrine and cellular health in humans.
Dr Jerry Tennant is an ophthalmologist and leading alternative medical doctor who foundered the Tennant Institute for Integrative Medicine. In the early 2000’s hi work on internal body voltage and charge within the body has contributed to a wholistic integration of meridian systems, internal mineral balance, vitamin cycles and cellular charge and vibrational oscillations.
Dr Jacob Liberman is a quantum doctor, author an energy medicine practitioner whom has greatly contribute to the body of work in the form of light and its interaction with the body, mind and spirit. He foundered the Aspen Centre for Energy Medicine in 1989 and through a wholistic and gentle approach helps thousands of patients and clients every year with near impossible health challenges. His understanding of colour therapy, meditation, natural vs non-natural light and topologic effects of light has illuminated many new quantum discoveries.
Dr. Laszlo Boros an oncologist and water researcher at UCLA has worked in Paediatrics and has been integrally involved in The Stable Isotope Research Laboratory at UCLA looking at cancer cell metabolism via spectroscopy. He has greatly contributed to the study of intracellular water and metabolism with a great contribution to academia and contribution to explaining the quantum properties of water.
Scott Zimmerman and Russel Riter are two researchers and engineers who pioneered the field of optics and Biophotonics of red and infrared light. With specific achievements in demonstrating that 95% of al melatonin in he huan body is produced in the mitochondria predominantly from exposure to red light. This changes the landscape of lighting and optics as a protocol for optimal health.
Robert (Bob) Fosbury, born on April 2, 1948, is an emeritus astronomer at the European Southern Observatory and an honorary professor at the Institute of Ophthalmology at UCL. Notably, he dedicated 26 years to the European Space Agency (ESA), contributing to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) project in collaboration with NASA. Fosbury played a crucial role in developing instrument concepts for the James Webb Space Telescope during his service on NASA’s Ad Hoc Science Working Group and ESA’s Study Science Team. Starting his career at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, he later joined the Anglo Australian Observatory before moving to ESO at CERN in Geneva. Throughout his extensive career, Fosbury has made significant contributions to various astronomical topics, publishing over three hundred scientific papers, ranging from exoplanets to the physics of forming galaxies in the distant Universe. His interdisciplinary interests extend to atmospheric optics, the origin of natural color, and visual neuroscience, earning him an honorary professorship at UCL and a Fellowship at the University of Durham’s Institute of Advanced Study.
Dr. Roger Sehault is a distinguished circadian biologist and biophysics expert, renowned for his groundbreaking contributions to understanding the intricate mechanisms governing the body’s internal biological clocks. With a rich background in both biology and physics, Dr. Sehault has seamlessly bridged these disciplines to unravel the complex interplay of light, metabolism, and circadian rhythms. His pioneering work has shed light on the role of light exposure in regulating these internal clocks, influencing diverse physiological processes such as sleep-wake cycles, hormonal fluctuations, and overall well-being. Dr. Sehault’s research has not only deepened our comprehension of circadian biology but has also paved the way for innovative applications in healthcare, offering valuable insights for optimizing human health and performance based on the principles of biophysics and circadian science.
Dr Jack Kruse is a neurosurgeon and quantum clinician in the USA. He has in turn contributed to the body of work in the field of Quantum Biology through his predictions beginning in the early 2000’s. He is credited for connecting many of the seemingly separate quantum and biologic theories and concepts to human health and longevity. His various protocols, no limited to but including, The Leptin Rx, Cold Thermogenesis Protocol and The Epi-Paleo Rx have brought theory to life.
Note: The list above outlines some of the key contributors to Quantum as we know it today. For completeness, it is important to note that there are many other additional contributors to this Quantum development not mentioned above.
What is The Electric Universe Theory?
The Electric Universe Theory is important to mention here in the wake of recent discoveries, a new way of seeing the physical universe is emerging. The new vantage point emphasizes the role of electricity in space and shows the negligible contribution of gravity in cosmic events.
Quantum and the electric universe help explain that all things are connected and weather talking about particles or fields with no defined particles, charge, current, electric and magnetic fields and light connect everything together in a boundless universe.
The Electric Universe goes on to explain: “Images returned by high-powered telescopes and recent space probes have challenged astronomers’ long-standing assumptions about galaxies and their constituent stars, about the evolution of our solar system, and about the nature and history of Earth.
The new discoveries also suggest that our early ancestors may have witnessed awe inspiring electrical events in the heavens—the source of myths and symbols around the world.
Today, magnetic fields are detected everywhere, even in the “empty” depths of intergalactic space. Magnetic fields cannot exist without causative electric currents. The naked electric force is 39 orders of magnitude (a thousand billion billion billion billion times) stronger than gravity. The visible universe is constituted almost entirely of electrically active plasma.
In the twentieth-century, the pioneers of plasma science inspired a new school of investigation called plasma cosmology. Plasma cosmologists suggest that electricity is the primary force organizing spiral galaxies and the astonishing galactic clusters now seen in deep space.
Proponents of the Electric Universe suggest that there are no isolated islands in the universe. All objects in space, from subatomic particles to galactic clusters, are connected by manifestations of the electric force acting in real-time.
It appears to be electricity that energizes the stars, including the Sun, in a form of glow discharge. This external power source explains why the temperature of the Sun increases above the photosphere to coronal temperatures of 2 million degrees. Powerful plasma feedback effects maintain a steady output of visible solar radiation while variations in power input show up in the familiar sunspot cycle.
It is in the nature of a glow discharge that all stars possess a weak electric field beyond the corona. As charged particles of the solar wind move away from the Sun, they continue to be accelerated due to the Sun’s electric field, which extends to the heliopause.”
Some key thought leaders in this theory are Wallace Thornhill, who explains the electric universe theory along with Immanuel Velikovski and David Talbott. There are other key scientist who support this theory, such as, Ken Wheeler on Field Theory, Rupert Sheldrake on Morphic Resonance and Dr Gerry Tennant on bioelectricity.
For more information on the Electric Universe Theory see below:
- Welcome to the Electric Universe! video
- Essential Guide to the Electric Universe
- Beginner’s Guide to the Electric Universe
- Common Misconceptions
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