Chapter 10 Chapter 10 Under the Microscope

Just as some astronomers can sometimes use a telescope to see things that other astronomers cannot see (such as Lovell's discovery of canals on Mars), some biologists can use a microscope to discover strange things that their colleagues cannot. Phenomenon.In a later chapter we shall devote a special account of how Wilhelm Reich, a famous Austrian psychiatrist, saw the transformation of "biological particles" into protozoa.Here we briefly introduce a few more incredible examples observed with a microscope. In the eyes of modern pseudobiologists, the long-abandoned theory of abiotic origin (that is, the theory that inanimate matter will spontaneously generate life forms) is a promising research field. In 1836, when a British amateur scientist named Andrew Cross was conducting electrical experiments at his residence on Quantoc Mountain, he suddenly discovered that his experiment had produced a very small insect.Prior to this, he had been experimenting with turning some chemical compounds into artificial metals by means of electricity.Here is Cross's description of what he saw through the microscope:

On the 14th day after the experiment began, I saw under the lens several whitish growths appearing in the center of the electrified stone, in the shape of papillae, almost suspended above the droplets dripping from above.By day 18, these protrusions had grown in size, with 7-8 filaments appearing on each papillae.By day 22, they became larger and clearer.On the 26th day, these things turned into complete small insects.They stand on the few bristles on their tails.Until this time, I thought these things were nothing more than early formations of minerals.But on the 28th day, when I could clearly see their legs moving, I was amazed, literally blew my mind.

About 100 insects just emerged.Cross reported that the small insects had six legs and the large ones eight.He believes that these insects may belong to mites, "but a type that has never been seen before." Finally, these insects all left the liquid, flew around in the laboratory, and lay in the dark, seemingly afraid of light.His later experiments also produced a large number of these insects.Another amateur scientist named Weeks who lived in Sandwich repeated Cross's experiment.He takes special care to keep the airborne eggs out of the liquid.Not only did he find the same insects, but he also found that the number of insects produced was related to the amount of carbon in the solution.

Details of Cross's experiments are given in Remembrance of Andrew Cross, by Mrs Cross, 1857; Thirty Years of Peace, by Harry Martino, Lieutenant Commander Rupert Gould's Unexplained Oddities, 1928. In 1872, another British scientist, Henry Charlton and Bastian, wrote a book called "The Beginning of Life", consisting of two volumes.This book caused a great shock in the academic world.Basteen used the term "mutation" to explain what he believed to be the process by which matter was continually and spontaneously produced in nature, and claimed to have seen it himself under a microscope.However, when his colleagues repeated his experiments, taking greater care to keep airborne microbes out, the results were disappointing.

In 1906, the Englishman John Butler Burke published a book with similar content, titled "The Origin of Life".Burke used radium radiation to obtain artificial primitive tissue-half life and half crystal, which he named "radiation organisms".This discovery also caused great shock at the time.However, because other scientists could not confirm Burke's discovery, it was gradually forgotten. Even more startling than these discoveries were those of an amateur biochemist, Molly Martin. In 1927, he began this strange quest with a microscope in his private laboratory.The laboratory is located in a small village called Andover in Hampshire, England.He heated a small piece of rock of the Azoic Era (the Azoic Era is the earliest geological age, and no biological fossil remains of this era have been found so far) into a pile of very light ash, and then through a series of chemical changes, from this pile The ashes contained what he called "primordial cytoplasm."When this substance is exposed to X-rays (with great care to avoid air pollution), its crystals gradually change into tiny living plant and animal forms, mainly fish.At one point, he found 15,000 of these tiny fish within an inch square.Martin believes that this substance has been in a state of suspended animation for tens of millions of years since the Azoic Era.

Molly Martin, who died in 1937, published only a small, now rare volume, The Regeneration of Animals and Plants in Cytoplasm Isolated from Minerals (1934).It is a pity that his experimental notes recording the details of the experiment were written in code, which has not yet been deciphered.The most detailed introduction to Martin's research work can be found in the chapter in Maurice Maeterlinck's book "The Gate", published in 1959.The following passage is quoted from a translation of the book "Molly Martin's Experiments," published in 1948 by the San Diego-based Association for the Study of Frontier Science:

After magnification under the microscope, it can be seen that blood cells form in the cytoplasm and become spines.Then it elongated into a spine, with ribs on it; then the outlines of limbs or claws, heads, and eyes appeared.This change process is usually slow and takes several days to complete.But sometimes observers can see the process with their eyes.For example, a beetle sprouted legs and crawled out of view of a microscope. These spontaneous things are living, sometimes crawling, and they can grow as long as the cytoplasm that produced them has enough nutrients.Once the nutrients in the cytoplasm are exhausted, the growth will stop, or they will phagocytize each other.However, Molly Martin had successfully fed them with a blood serum, which Martin kept secret.

Bacteriologists were unimpressed by these lurid experimental results.The Theosophists, however, were more open-minded.Many articles in their various journals pointed out that Molly Martin's research confirmed Mrs. Blavatsky's point of view: there were prototypes of life in the "fire fog age" of the earth, and these prototypes of life were the ones that evolved later. The source of the form utilized by the process. The ability of American scientists to observe this astonishing phenomenon with a microscope lags behind that of the British.However, at least one individual achievement is worth mentioning.That's Seattle-based Charles Littlefield, a homeopath.

Little is known about Littlefield except that he was born in 1859, of Scottish descent, grew up on a farm near Muncie, Indiana, and began practicing medicine somewhere in Arkansas in 1886. In 1896, he graduated from the Kansas City College of Homeopathic Medicine.Later he settled in Seattle, where he worked as a physician and surgeon until his death.He has written many books. Littlefield attributes the origin of his odd studies to an incident in his childhood when he was doing farm work with his older brother.The teenager Charles cut his foot once while working, and the injury was serious, bleeding profusely.His brother invited a local.The man would stop the bleeding with a spell based on a passage from the Bible.This spell is very effective.Littlefield knew it too.After he became a doctor, he often used the same method to stop bleeding for patients in accidents or operations.

Around 1905, Littlefield began to ask himself: Why is this spell so effective?What components of the blood does it act on?He knew certain words to have (mark), and the image of a woman with a dog on her shoulders on a windy day. Dr. Littlefield could not understand why orthodox biologists were so indifferent to his discovery.He asked: "Why don't these people do this kind of experiment to prove whether it's true or not, instead of yelling at the person who came up with these experimental results that may answer a very important question in the field of science?" The last third of the book is devoted to his treatment.In addition to the usual homeopathy, he also used the "rainbow" therapy which he invented and patented in 1918.This kind of therapy is to irradiate patients with colored lights to treat various diseases.There are six photographs in the book of a waitress with badly burned buttocks.When Dr. Littlefield arrived, he thought the patient was in serious condition, probably fatal.Luckily he had set up a rainbow light to illuminate the patient's back.The photo shows the burn healing process. After 10 weeks, the patient's skin was as good as ever.Littlefield hopes to use the proceeds from his book to build a "rainlight hospital" in Seattle, with a rainbow light in every room, and a central hall that can serve as a place for collective rainbow therapy.

The book closes with touching letters from patients who told of their cures of cancer, tuberculosis, epilepsy, Bright's disease, and other ailments after taking "Dr. Littlefield's Viable Tissue Salts" .The salt is sold at the doctor for two dollars and a half an ounce. The last book Dr. Littlefield wrote was Man, Mineral, and Master, published in Los Angeles in 1937.There are many more photographs of thought-generated images such as the Great Pyramid, phallic images, the head of a sphinx, women in white, the head of an Indian, a right foot, a left foot, God The Eye of the Sion, Mount Sion, the Rose Cross, an open book with a map of the United States, and "3 Tibetans Sitting in a Mountain," among others.One must have a considerable imagination to recognize the envisioned images.But it is undeniable that there is some connection between the image of these crystals and the description below the picture.Still, one cannot help suspecting that these explanations arose not so much before the formation of the crystallographic image as after it; The image of something so far. In the same book, Littlefield also describes a new technique he invented to speed up the crystallization process.This technique is composed of something called "mantras", a type of spell derived from numerology.For example, the doctor wanted to have a vision of Jesus on the cross.After some actions, he obtained the "Mantra" of "Sacrificial Sheep".How could this be "Mantra"?If you replace the letters in the word "lamb" with numbers, 1 for A, 2 for B, and so on, until you use 9 for I.Then start from 1, use 1 to represent J, and then push down the alphabet.From this, it can be obtained that the digital code name of "sheep" is 3-1-4-2.The sum of these four numbers is 10. 10 is made up of two numbers, 1 and 0, and when these two numbers are added together, the result is 1.Using the same method, it can be calculated that the numerical code of the second word "sacrifice" is 3, "for" is 3, and "man" is 1.Thus, the numerical code of this phrase is 1-3-3-1.If two of the numbers in the set are the same, you've got a "mantra".If more than two pairs of numbers are the same, the power of this "Mantra" will be great.Littlefield used the above-mentioned "Mantra" to obtain the image of Jesus suffering on the cross shown in the book.In the same way, focus on the "mantra" of "mastering the vitality with the will", and you will get the scene of Jesus' resurrection. Among paranoid and eccentric microscopists, there are as many people who believe that microorganisms are constantly entering the atmosphere from interstellar space as those who believe that life can be chemically synthesized.The English physicist Lord Kelvin was the last prominent scientist to maintain this view.He pointed out that the extremely cold space in the universe is the most suitable for microorganisms to maintain a state of suspended animation.Recently, two Swedish scientists, Swanti Aronnius and Professor Louis Bachmann, put forward this theory again. Another Swedish professor, Nat Lundmark, suggested that microbes might have been brought to us by meteors.This view was still supported until the 1930s, when Charles Lippman, a professor at the University of California, sterilized some meteorites, ground them into powder, and then placed the powder in the culture solution.Before long, microbes were found in it.Although other scientists have also brewed in the same way, they have not been successful.They suspected, therefore, that Professor Lippmann did not quite understand the difficult experimental procedures which had to be followed in order to prevent airborne bacteria from entering the culture medium during the experiments. An equally astonishing example of microbes found in meteorites is provided by German geologist Otto Hahn.He found shells, corals, sponges, crinoids, etc. in meteorites that had to be seen with a microscope.He wrote a long book on this discovery, entitled Chondrites and Their Organisms, which was published in Tübingen in 1880.There are dozens of well-taken dark-brown photomicrographs in the book, which he believes confirm his findings.Sadly, these photographs only show that Professor Hahn photographed some tiny crystal structures and then, like Littlefield, went wild about it.