Open Energy · citizen science
Rife, tested. In the open, by anyone.
In the 1930s Royal Raymond Rife claimed that every microbe has a frequency that destroys it, and built machines to deliver those frequencies. The story has never gone away. Neither has the problem: the claim was never independently reproduced, and the devices sold under his name today are mostly audio generators with hand electrodes, not his apparatus.
We think the right response to a claim that won’t die is not belief and not ridicule. It’s a test that anyone can run at home, that can’t hurt anyone, and that gets published whichever way it comes out. If enough people run it and the frequency reliably wins, that is a finding worth taking to a laboratory. If it doesn’t, the record will say so, plainly, for the first time.
The question we can actually answer
Does a claimed frequency kill a harmless microbe in a dish, more than an identical sham exposure does, when the person counting doesn’t know which dish was which?
- In a dish, never in a body
Baker’s yeast on agar. Nothing here is ever used on a person or an animal, and nothing here treats or prevents any illness.
- A sham twin for every exposure
Two identical coils. One is driven at the claimed frequency, the other is not. From the outside they look the same.
- Counted by someone who doesn’t know
A second person assigns dishes by coin flip and keeps the list sealed. A third counts colonies without knowing which was which.
- Decided before you start
You write down the frequency, its source, the outcome and what would count as success before the first dish is plated.
- Heat is measured every run
A coil can warm its dish. If the driven dish runs warmer, the result is about heat, and it is marked inconclusive.
- Published either way
A clean refutation is worth as much to the record as a confirmation, and far more than an unblinded success.
Safety, before anything is built
- Harmless organisms only: baker’s yeast, or a teaching bacterium sold for school labs. Never culture swabs from people, wounds or the environment.
- Bleach every used dish for 30 minutes before it goes in the trash.
- The default build is a low-voltage signal generator and a hand-wound coil. Rife’s historical plasma-tube build involves high voltage and radio emission; leave it to people who already work safely with both.
Run it
Nine steps, two blocks of at least six dishes per condition, about two weeks of evenings. Clone the experiment, follow it, and submit your result to the shared record, where every run joins the map of citizen scientists.
Materials in the experiment are search links (Amazon Associates tag) for things you choose yourself; we have not vetted any frequency device.