OK, more on the bio-active sounds of Joel Sternheimer. Time permitting, I'll
have to do it in 2 posts (at least !). So here goes.
Web recources are :
http://www.earthpulse.com/science/songs.html
(good summary, in English, but nothing on the health experiments)
http://www.bekkoame.or.jp/~dr.fuk/IndexF.html
(a Japanese site on Sternheimer. Here are the theoretical and experimental
papers, in French)
http://www.bekkoame.or.jp/~dr.fuk/IndexE.html
(same site, 7 short pieces, in English, from a Japanese newspaper)
My own account, 1rst part :
Joel Sternheimer is a shy, hypersensitive & brilliant 53 year old physicist.
He studied elementary particle physics under Louis de Broglie, then at
Princeton University. While a student, in the sixties, he also made French
folk-rock/protest song records under the name of "Evariste". Then he carved
his own path in theoretical physics research, as an independant, but with
publications in the big name journals.. As a former musician, he was
surprised to find, by quantum maths, that the distribution of the mass of
particles appear commensurate with frequencies (notes) of the musical
"tempered scale". This led him into mathematical research on resonance; and
his theory of "ondes d'echelle" (which may be translated as "scale waves" or
"scaling waves", but should not be confused with "scalar waves"). In this
case, waves (energy and information) are transmitted between two levels of
very different scale - say, the infinitely small, molecular level and the
everyday scale of sound waves in air).
Then, in the 80's, he turned to biology. He focused on the vibrations that
occur inside the cell, at the molecular level, when a protein is being
assembled from its 20 constituent amino-acids. While assembled in the"cell
factory" called the ribosome, the amino-acids are considerably slowed and
stabilized, compared to their thermal agitation when they are at large in
the cell. So a vibration frequency can be calculated. Each of the 20
amino-acids can be transcribed, in the acoustical bandwidth, as a "note"..
Then the sequence of amino-acids (always synthetized in the some order for
each protein, cf data available on biology databanks) is transcribed into a
sequence of notes, i.e. a melody. Hopefully, these melodies (often slightly
dissonant or out of tune), when replayed, would resonate and stimulate (or
inhibit) production of specific proteins.
Apparently, they did. Experiments began in 1990. So far on yeast, bread,
avocados, melons (fruit conservation), tomatoes (resistance to drought and
pests, in Africa), or oxygen-producing blue algae. Small scale, independant
research, very few publications, good results. Typical application is 3 to
10 minutes of "music" (played by an ordinary cassette player), once or twice
a day. Joel took a patent in 1992, then international patents last year.
Then, my own experiences and the human health effects - which I have been
following and sometimes testing for about one year...Well, folks, you'll
have to wait until tomorrow for that part !
Best regards to all
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Jean-Pierre Lentin
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