On page 9 is an ad for a new videotape, "Dark Satellites", from Gerry
Vassilatos, who has supposedly abandoned all fringe science research after
making a shocking discovery that he won't reveal to anyone. The subject of this
video is "gamma ray laser weapons, gamma ray communications, the Mossbauer
Effect, and other recently declassified satellite weaponry."
I was unfamiliar with the Mossbauer Effect, and I intended to look it up but I
got involved in some computer tinkering and just didn't have time. Then today,
I was looking for some information on a completely unrelated subject, the occult
elements of the JFK assassination, and noticed that a certain conspiracy
researcher had a link on his home page to a new Village Voice article on Randell
Mills of cold-fusion fame. In part, the article said:
>> Currently, patients are carpet bombed with radiation in the hope that
normal cells adjacent to cancer cells will be able to recover and reproduce,
while malfunctioning cancer cells won't. Patients suffer terribly and injuries
from repeated radiation can accumulate to a point where the cure itself
threatens to become a killer. What Mills tested in mice were essentially the
world's smallest smart bombs.
Dr. Greg Gagnon, assistant professor of radiation medicine at Georgetown
University Medical Center, has investigated Mills's radiation technique, called
Mossbauer Isotopic Resonant Absorption of Gamma Emission, or MIRAGE. Gagnon says
Mills found a molecule to carry iron into a cell and plant it flush against DNA,
the control center. Then comes the detonation.
The patient is given a tiny dose of gamma radiation, far less than a
standard X ray. The gamma ray photons and iron atoms are tuned to react with
each other in something called the Mossbauer isotope. When an iron nucleus
absorbs a photon, it becomes unstable and releases a small burst of energy that
knocks an electron out of its proper orbit, which then bumps outer electrons
astray. What follows is an Auger cascade, a kind of microscopically localized
electron explosion, Gagnon explains. "The electrons are shooting off, breaking
things all over the place, and then the iron becomes attached to the DNA
fragments. There's no way a cell can repair so much damage."
Healthy cells tear apart the transport molecule and the iron drifts safely
off.
"It's just an amazingly clever idea. Randy is probably the most intelligent
person I've met," remarks Gagnon.
Dr. John Humm, a medical physicist now at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer
Center who critiqued MIRAGE in Nature, argues that because such mild gamma rays
wouldn't likely penetrate deep into tissue, "there would be severe limitations
on clinical use. But having said that, this is nothing to sneeze at. The
elegance of the idea is impressive. I know of no other way of so selectively
inactivating sections of DNA." Scientists might instead embrace MIRAGE as a
laboratory-setting microscopic cellular probe, Humm says.
Mills counters that while MIRAGE may not work for every cancer, in the years
since the Nature article, he's found other Mossbauer isotopes that can work at
deeper levels. In addition, he says, the radiation used in his original tests
was so negligible that he could increase it by a factor of 1000 without any
resulting discomfort to the patient. <<
This is the only explanation of the Mossbauer Effect I could find on the web, at
http://www.astro.soton.ac.uk/~ajb/Mossbauer.html:
>> Under normal conditions, the recoil of a free nucleus when it emits a
gamma-ray subtly reduces the gamma-ray energy. The gamma-ray then does not have
enough energy to excite another nucleus to undergo the same transition, and so
what is known as resonant absorption of the gamma-ray is suppressed. In
practice, thermal Doppler broadening of the gamma-ray emission spectrum (and the
absorption spectrum) means there is a small chance of resonant absorption. As a
sample is cooled, the thermal broadening is reduced, and so should resonant
absorption. In essence, the Mossbauer effect is a demonstration the resonant
absorption increases at low temperatures, contrary to expectation.
Mossbauer explained this by considering the gamma-ray emission and absorption as
essentially recoiless at low temperatures, as the nuclei are frozen into a
lattice and the whole lattice recoils only very little compared with how one
nucleus recoils. Also, since the nuclei are all in low vibrational states due to
the reduced temperatures, the emission and absorption line profiles are very
narrow.
The Mossbauer resonance is thus very narrow, and only very small changes in the
nuclear energy levels are needed to destroy it. Thus the Mossbauer effect can be
used to create very sensitive spectrometers, which can be used for a variety of
applications. <<
The definition does not make clear what range is meant by "low temperatures".
Can anyone shed any further light, so to speak, on what Mills has done, or what
connection this could possibly have to Vassilatos and energetic weaponry?
--"I'd rather have my country die for me." --Grace Slick, 'rejoyce'
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