Does the future of medicine lie in healing via energy the way it was done on Star Trek? This is the first part of...I don't know how many posts. ha! How about until I run out of info or until you get tired of it? : ) In 1970, Fritz Albert Popp, who received his PhD in theoretical physics in record time, was working in theoretical biophysics at the University of Marlburg. Popp was an unusual scientist in that he was a philosopher as well as a scientist. Even as a tiny child, he had tried to make sense of the world, to find some single solution he could apply to everything in his life. When Popp started college, he planned to study philosophy, until a teacher persuaded him that physics would be the most likely subject to give him that single “equation” that held the key to life. When studying classical physics, with its assertion of reality being independent of the observer, Popp grew profoundly suspicious. He believed that “reality” was the creation of living systems and that the observer must be central to the creation of his world. His work involved benzo [a] pyrene, one of the most lethal carcinogens known to man. Popp was trying to determine what effect UV light would have on benzo [a] pyrene (herein called benzoA). He found that benzoA had a crazy optical property. It absorbed the UV light then re-emitted it at a completely different frequency, acting like a biological frequency scrambler. Popp then tried the experiment on benzo [e] pyrene, a virtually identical substance, save for a tiny alteration that rendered it harmless to humans. The light passed right through benzoE unaltered. Popp was intrigued and tested 37 other compounds with UV light, some were cancer-causing and some were not. Through experimental results, it got so that Popp could predict which compounds were carcinogenic. In every instance, the carcinogenic compounds would alter the UV light’s frequency. Another odd thing was that each of the cancer-causing compounds reacted only to light at the specific wavelength of 380 nanometers. Why would a carcinogen be a light scrambler? Popp researched other papers on light effects in living systems and learned about a phenomenon called photo-repair. It was proven through lab experiments that, if you blasted a cell with UV light and destroyed 99% of the cell, including its DNA, you could almost entirely repair the damage in a single day by illuminating the cell with the same wavelength of light at a very weak intensity. Popp was shocked to learn that photo-repair worked most efficiently at a wavelength of 380 nanometers! Popp made a logical leap, feeling that this result was too perfect to be coincidence. He deducted that there must be some light in the body responsible for photo-repair, and that a cancerous compound might cause cancer because it effectively blocked photo-repair by taking in the light needed for repair and changing it to a useless frequency, so that photo-repair could not take place. Not long after his initial findings and subsequent published paper, a grad student named Bernard Ruth asked Popp to supervise his work for his PhD dissertation. It was a fortuitous meeting for Popp because Ruth happened to be an excellent experimental physicist. Popp said he would supervise if Ruth could show that there was light inside the body. Ruth thought this was ridiculous…there was no light inside the body! So, Popp told him to prove that there was no light inside the body, and he would receive his PhD. Ruth agreed. Ruth set to work building equipment that would show that no light emanated from the body. Within two years, he produced a machine resembling an x-ray detector. It could count light photon by photon and is still one of the best pieces of equipment in the field today. Popp assumed that any light coming from the body would be extremely weak, so the machine had to be highly sensitive. In 1976, they began testing. They had grown cucumber seedlings and put them in the machine, which surprisingly, detected light waves of high intensity emitting from the tiny plant. Ruth was skeptical and said that it had to be the chlorophyll. So, they grew potato seedlings in the dark and put them in the machine. They emitted even a higher intensity of light. Ruth had to concede that the light had nothing to do with chlorophyll or photosynthesis. (“Light” in this experiment is UV light which is not detected by our eyes. That’s why you don’t see your garden glowing. ha!) Even more astounding, the photons in the living systems he had tested were more coherent than anything he’d ever seen! In quantum physics, coherence means that the waves are in synch and “wave” up and down all together at the same time. Lasers are coherent light. This enables the light particles, or photons, to cooperate with each other. Coherent waves are linked by bands of common electromagnetic fields so that they are able to communicate. Coherence establishes communication. Ama

Gunther joined the Vienna Toastmasters Club 551 in February 1982 because he saw an excellent opportunity to improve his communication skills in an English speaking environment. Very soon he became a very active member of the club, visited other clubs in Europe as well as in New York City and even Honolulu and engaged himself in club management activities. 1986 he became the first time President of the Vienna Toastmasters Club. At the end of the same year he moved to Paris and continued his active membership in Toastmasters in the Paris club (President 1988) where he also engaged himself in bilingual joined meetings of the Paris Toastmasters Club (English) and the Orleans Toastmasters Club (French). 1989 Gunther returned again back to Vienna and became again President of the Vienna Club (1990). Meanwhile he also completed the necessary projects to became ATM. After 1994 Gunther's job did not allow him to attend all the meetings for some years, but recently he is again a very active member of our club and was again elected President for the period of 2005/2006. Gunther is General Manager of Alcon Laboratories in Austria since January 1994. Before worked for over 10 years with Eli Lilly & Company in Vienna and Paris in various positions. He is a born Viennese and holds a masters degree in Business Administration of the University of Economics and World Trade in Vienna. Gunther loves classical music, particularly operas, and is interested in history, politics and international communication.