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Royal Raymond Rife (May 16, 1888 - August 11, 1971) is an important figure in alternative medicine. He is known in the alternative medicine community for his claim of inventing in 1933 the "Universal Microscope", an advanced optical microscope with x60,000 magnification (comparable to that of early electron microscopes).

Research with the Universal Microscope

Rife claimed to have used used his Universal Microscope to examine pleomorphic microbes in various media. According to Rife, an advantage of his optical microscope over other optical microscopes of the day was that living tissues and organisms could be examined as his microscope, through the use of polarized light and prisms, was able to focus clearly on live tissues and living organisms.

Rife claimed to have identified the individual spectroscopic signature of each microbe using a slit spectroscope attachment. He would then rotate block prisms to focus light of a single wavelength upon the microorganism he was examining. This wavelength was selected because it "resonated" with the spectroscopic signature frequency of the microbe.

The Beam Ray

Rife also commissioned the invention of a device called the "Beam Ray", said to operate on the principle of resonance, which he used to find the "Mortal Oscillatory Rate" to destroy the organism, much as a wine glass can be broken by sound at the glass's resonant frequency. On November 20, 1931, forty-four of the nation's most respected medical authorities held a banquet at the Pasadena estate of Dr. Milbank Johnson, to honor Roy Rife's work in finding "The End To All Diseases".

In 1934, the University of Southern California appointed a medical research committee to bring terminal cancer patients from Pasadena County Hospital to Rife's San Diego Laboratory and clinic for treatment.

After 90 days of treatment, the committee concluded that 86.5% of the patients had been completely cured. The frequencys were then adjusted and the remaining 13.5% of the patients also responded within the next four weeks. The total recovery rate using Rife's technology was 100%.

Destruction of Research

Rife's work was destroyed by Dr. Morris Fishbein, then editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association. The government raided Rife's labs, destroyed his microscopes, seized his equipment and notes, and forced him to move on. {{citation}}: Empty citation (help)

Since most information on Rife's work on the Universal Microscope and the Beam Ray is no longer available, independent verification and/or replication of his theories, research and results now may be all but impossible.

However, the claims for the Universal Microscope's x60,000 magnification are not supported by physics. Optical microscopes are limited by the wavelength of light, blurring of the image by diffraction limiting the optical resolution to typically x1,500.

Re-examination of Research

Rife's work was revived by interested scientists and laypeople in the 1980s. An interest in Rife himself was revived by author Barry Lynes, who wrote a book about Rife entitled The Cancer Cure That Worked.

Today Rife's research is being re-visited by such groups as the Bioelectromagnetics Society.

But history seems to be repeating itself as those who are looking into Rife's work today are accused of ignoring the scientific method, and their work is described as pseudo-science. Current theoretical and commercial offerings, such as Rife plasma lamp devices, are seen as quackery and claimed to be unsupported by peer-reviewed research by Quackwatch and other skeptics of alternative medicine who seem to take the same view of Rife and his work as Fishbein in the first half of the 20th century.

In the late 1980's a company by the name of "Life Energy Resources" mass-produced a device they called the "REM SuperPro Generator" on the foundation of Rife's work (giving the acronym REM for Rife's Electromagnetic). Three of the company's top distributors: Pat Ballistrea, Michael Ricotta, and Brian Strandberg, served prison time as a result of their trials in 1993, 1994, and 1995.

See also

• Albert Abrams

External links

• James Bare is an inventor who has designed a modern version of the Rife "Beam Ray" device.
• Rife.org - reviews the original documents concerning Rife
• The European Rife Information Forum is run by Peter Walker, a Rife experimenter, and contains a wealth of links and information concerning modern Rife research.
• The Bioelectromagnetics Society is an association of scientists and doctors conducting experiments that use electromagnetism to heal.
• Aubrey Scoon is an electrical engineer with an interest in Rife technologies who maintains a web site regarding his own research into Rife technologies.
• FDA Link on the FDA website detailing what happened to a group selling a circa 1980's reproduction Rife machine under the name REM Superpro.
• Jeff Rense A more detailed website putting Rife's work in layman's terms.

• People in alternative medicine
• Pseudoscientists