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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. By 1933, he had had constructed the Universal Microscope, which had 5,682 different parts and was capable of magnifying objects 60,000 times their normal size. With this incredible microscope, Rife became the first human being to actually see a live virus, and until quite recently, the Universal Microscope was the only one which was able view live viruses.

What the Rife microscope can see is living viruses as they change form to accommodate changes in environment, replicate rapidly in response to carcinogens, and transform normal cells into tumor cells.

Rife identified the individual spectroscopic signature of each microbe, using a slit spectroscope attachment. Then, he rotated block quartz 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 based on the now-established fact that every molecule oscillates at its own distinct frequency.

The atoms that come together to form a molecule are held together in that molecular configuration with a covalent energy bond which both emits and absorbs its own specific electromagnetic frequency. No two species of molecule have the same electromagnetic oscillations or energetic signature. Resonance amplifies light in the same way two ocean waves intensify each other when they merge together.

The result of using a resonant wavelength is that micro-organisms which are invisible in white light suddenly become visible in a flash of light when they are exposed to the color frequency that resonates with their own distinct spectroscopic signature. Rife was thus able to see these otherwise invisible organisms and watch them actively invading tissues cultures. Rife's discovery enabled him to view organisms that no one else could see with ordinary light microscopes.

More than 75% of the organisms Rife could see with his Universal Microscope are only visible with ultra-violet light. Rife overcame this limitation by heterodyning, a technique used in the early years of radio broadcasting. He illuminated the microbe with two different wavelengths of the same ultraviolet light frequency which resonated with the spectral signature of the microbe. These two wavelengths produced interference where they merged. This interference created a third, longer wave which fell into the visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. This was how Rife made invisible microbes visible without killing them, a feat which today's electron microscopes cannot duplicate.

The Beam Ray

On November 20, 1931, forty-four of the nation's most respected medical authorities honored Royal Rife with a banquet billed as The End To All Diseases at the Pasadena estate of Dr. Milbank Johnson.

Rife commissioned the invention of a device called the "Beam Ray", said to operate on the principle of resonance, which he allegedly used to find the "Mortal Oscillation Rate" to destroy the organism, just as a wine glass can be broken by sound at a certain frequency. In 1934, the University of Southern California appointed a Special 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 treatment was then adjusted for the remaining 13.5% of the patients over 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.

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.

It must be noted that numerous examples exist where the so-called "wavelength of light limit" (Lenz's Law) are not applicable. For example, modern lithographic techniques are capable of creating features below 30 nm, using deep-ultraviolet light with a wavelength of 193 nm. If the so-called "wavelength limit" were in fact a reality, such an achievement would simply not be possible. In a similar way, Rife was able to readily overcome the "wavelength of light limit" by cleverly restricting the frequency of light his microscope used to a narrow band, and by carefully constructing his optical path to limit the inclusion of air. Furthermore, Rife was ahead of his time in the use of quartz as an optical material. Modern research at IBM's laboratories (achieving the just-mentioned lithography results) has similarly relied on the use of quartz. It appears that today's physicists are rediscovering the optical advantages of quartz that Rife exploited more than seventy years ago.

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.
• EMR Labs Another website but with photocopies of newspaper clippings

• People in alternative medicine