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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 allegedly used in 1934 at a University of Southern California clinic in La Jolla, California to cure 16 patients of their cancer. Rife claimed he could find the resonant frequency of a particular disease-causing organism, then use the "oscillatory energy" to destroy the organism, much as a pane of glass can be broken by sound at the pane's resonant frequency.

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. However, Dr. Fishbein's attack on Rife was motivated by greed because Fishbein's attempts to license Rife's valuable patents were rejected by Rife and his collaborator Dr. Bruce Kendall. At the time he was working with Rife, Dr. Kendall was Chairman of the Microbiology Department at Northwestern University.

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. Actually, a great deal of information is in fact available. An extensive collection of articles are listed in "The Cancer Cure That Worked," and numerous websites offer large amounts of historical information.

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.

Recent work by IBM has proven the "wavelength limit" of light is not scientifically supported. IBM researchers have succeeded in replicating what Rife himself showed over seventy years ago: it is possible to resolve feature well below the wavelength of light in use.

However, some moron keeps on editing out the truth that I place here, so I will simply continue to post this again and again. So, fuck you asshole, whoever you are. The truth of Rife's work will prevail, regardless of the ignorance of small-minded persons such as yourself.

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