by Lynne McTaggart
One of the greatest mysteries of biology is how we, and every other living thing, take geometric shape. A possible answer has come from German mathematician Walter Schempp and British physicist Peter Marcer, who have developed a mathematical model to explain how DNA encodes shape and self-organization. Their work suggests that DNA is an oscillating medium, like a radio station, which sends and receives all sorts of genetic information via waves. This represents a radical new way of looking at the way DNA guides the formation of any organism.

According to Schempp and Marcer, each base pair of nucleo-tides, containing the genetic instructions A, C, G or T, encodes a diffraction pattern—an image of the wave containing patterns of shape at that particular moment—the information necessary to define the organism’s shape at each stage of development. Think of human DNA “. . . as a stack of . . . millions of CDs with information on them sufficient to generate you,” they write. Each base-pair bond provides a carrier wave for data in three dimensions, and takes the form of an encoding–decoding process, much as a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine takes a picture of human tissue at one-second intervals and builds them up into a moving image.

In this model, genes have a holographic history of the organism’s development—a sort of 3-D biography from the moment of conception. Your body as an infant is essentially an empty vessel, into which wave information from your parents is passed on. As you grow, your chromosomes slowly build up data through the 3-D information carried and stored as waves.

According to Marcer’s mathematical mapping, the chromosomes actually produce laser-like beams containing information connecting the chromosomes of the separate cells of an organism into a holistic continuum. Nucleotides radiate certain instructions to various parts of the body, and those cells that are affected then resonate to the same frequency and pick up the signal.

Schempp and Marcer provided impeccable calculations and introduced a holographic model, but their ideas remained a mathematical map, as divorced from the flesh and sinew of a human body as a road map of lines on a grid is from the actual terrain. Nevertheless, at the time they were working on their model, Peter Gariaev, a molecular biologist at Moscow’s Institute of Control Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, and his colleague Georg Tertishny, a theoretical laser physicist, gave these theoretical equations shape with hard experimental data.

Through a series of ingenious experiments, Gariaev’s team demonstrated that chromosomes emit radiation, or wave energy, that can be picked up at the furthest reaches of the organism. They also demonstrated that DNA appears able to transform one type of frequency to another to send out information.

In one of the first of the experiments, the Russian scientists bombarded DNA preparations in a test tube with a laser beam. To their amazement, the DNA more or less simultaneously converted the beam into a radio frequency, or soundwave. After receiving this information, the DNA molecules began to polarize—to march in step—and, like a miniature transducer, instantaneously converted these radiowaves into its own lower frequency to transmit instructions. This suggests that DNA is a type of resonating cavity that is not only able to ‘read’ these data, but is also capable of converting this information into a form that can be sent out to other genes around the body.

In a paper written in collaboration with Gariaev and others, Peter Marcer labelled this technique a new type of ‘EPR spectroscopy’ (after Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen, the quantum physicists who first described non-locality). Within this system, the Zero Point Field emissions of wave information about objects can be recorded and stored. It was both a brand-new type of radiowave and a unique storage device that could directly record the dynamic behaviour of objects, much as a laser beam in a hologram can encode 3-D information. In a sense, the double helix is both the body’s recording studio and radio station.

Gariaev and his colleagues did a study with the seeds of Arabidopsis thaliana (mouse-ear cress)—a small plant of the mustard family, a favourite of genome projects—taken from Chernobyl at the time of the nuclear accident in 1987. These seeds were certain to be dead, killed off in a wintry bath of nuclear radiation.

Having obtained some ordinary seeds of the plant, they then exposed these live seeds to a laser beam. The same beam was then shone onto the Chernobyl seeds. What happened next was nothing short of a miracle. Within a few days, the Chernobyl seeds sprouted and, to all intents and purposes, were normal.

Using artificially produced DNA radiation, the Russians have dramatically accelerated plant growth. In a study of potatoes overexposed to highly ramped-up DNA radiation, they were able to produce a Frankenstein plant in fast forward, with potatoes growing 1 cm/day. The radiation also dramatically altered the way they grew—the tubers were produced not on roots, but on stalks.

Both this experiment and the more dramatic resuscitation of the dead Chernobyl seeds used radiation as a control. Radiowaves without DNA information produced no response in any of the seeds. We have always known that the double helix of DNA is constantly gyrating. Gariaev and his colleagues claim this gyration might be a transmitting device—a type of genomic radar at the quantum level. What has always been thought of as random motion is the movement of a radar search-and-receive device, picking up and sending out signals, and possibly the means by which the human body is able to read the whole.