The importance of the laws of radio to the technical problems involved in the exposition of astrology as an exact science, in terms of physical science acceptable to scientists, cannot be overestimated. The reason for this is simple. As radio science advances, we find more and more that in the generation and conduction of high-frequency currents, and in the propagation of high-frequency electromagnetic waves through space, there is a gradual breakdown and reversal of Ohm’s law as higher and higher frequencies are dealt with. Dielectrics and conductors take on a reverse order as the wave length of light is even distantly approached.
This has to be predicated on the assumption that relativity is true, and this fact means that the time-honored objection to astrology on the grounds that the planets are too distant to radiate, by reflected solar light, any magnetic waves capable of setting up currents of response in the sympathetic nerve fibers and brain and body cells of the human race, is entirely unfounded.
A radio receiver wholly insensitive to a weak 700 kilocycle (450 meter) wave may be made to audibly respond to the same signal intensity on a 2000 kilocycle (150 meter) wave. A receiver limited to 500-mile reception on waves within the popular broadcast band may receive from the Antipodes by the substitution of short-wave tuning coils. In other words, a wave of 40 meters may be 1000 times as sensitive as one of 400 meters, as far as distance propagation and distant reception are concerned. Considering, then, that light waves are infinitely short as compared to even a 40-meter wave, we see readily that their straight-line propagation from planets, suns and stars, is far less diminished by millions of miles of interstellar space than are our radio waves by earth distances.
While long radio waves (low frequencies) have little as yet determined direct effect upon human health or "temperature," it is *Professor J. C. McLennan, of Toronto today, has found that certain long-meter waves so raise the body temperature as to promise a means of controlling fatal collapse in pneumonia cases. This wave acts on the sodium chloride of the blood.
Editor’s Note:—This article is INTELLECTUAL DYNAMITE! It is an answer to the time-honored objection to astrology on the grounds that the planets are too distant to radiate, by reflected solar light, any magnetic waves capable of affecting mankind. Anyone interested in astrology, equipped with information contained herein, may effectively refute the strongest argument put forth against astrology by orthodox scientists. While it is quite technical for the average reader, we feel that it is necessarily so, and that its importance justifies your reading it and the space we are giving it.
It is well known that waves of five meters and less, which are still a far cry to light waves, have a profound effect upon the nervous system, and that the high end of the spectrum (violet) affects the metabolism of some body tissues to a degree second only to the ultraviolet, X, alpha and beta rays. It can thus be said that astrology concerns itself with cosmic light-wave broadcasting from planets, sun and stars, and with a more sensitive receiver—the sympathetic neurons of homo sapiens.
I have already implied that electrical conduction and insulation that holds inviolate for direct current and low-frequency alternating current, and which gave rise to Ohm’s law, places all elements and their compounds in a definite progressive series. But let me again remind your writer that when we come to deal with radio, and higher frequencies than radio does yet utilize, this series undergoes for any given element or compound a gradual reversal as the frequency is increased.
That is, conduction and insulation, which to direct current are characteristics arising out of electrical pressure or voltage only, are to alternating current variables depending on the frequency or time factor, varying and even changing places in the series as the “times are shortened” (frequency increased). The electrical properties of matter, so far as alternating current is concerned, being variable and dependent upon the current frequency, it is almost certain that radio facts will in time substantiate several of Einstein’s relativity claims.
To clarify the foregoing for the general reader, let us contemplate on the fact that copper, let us say, is a good conductor of direct current and for alternating-current power circuits. It is even a good conductor of radio frequencies, though its resistance to the latter is increased as the frequency is increased, due to “skin-effect” (unequal distribution of high-frequency currents in conductors).
But copper is an absolute insulator to light or light frequencies, responding only to a lower harmonic of light in the form of heat. Thus copper is opaque to light. While it remains conductive to heat frequencies it acts as a dielectric or insulator to light. In contrast such a direct current or low-frequency alternating current insulator as glass, air or vacuum, automatically becomes an increasingly ideal conductor of light frequencies, and relatively poor to impossible conductors of heat frequencies.
The pertinent fact here is that “everything” is immune or resistant to some frequencies, but not to all frequencies, and that every frequency band, sufficiently separated, casts the elements and their compounds into a new series of relative conduction and insulation. Consequently, once proved that each planet has a different fundamental frequency response (plus the harmonics of that frequency), and that each planet reflects solar light at its own frequency or wavelength, it then becomes clear enough that each planet affects some things and not others. Thus their individual “relationship” (to revert to astrological terms) is explained.
That a purely physical (and this includes gaseous) body has a natural frequency is easily exampled. If common salt or ammonium chloride is dissolved in a glass of water, the glass when struck will sound a progressively lower note up to a certain point of solution density, then the pitch or frequency of the note will increase over two to three octaves till the point of saturation of solution is reached.
This is not due to a change of density of the solution, for a sugar solution, for example, does not manifest a range of acoustical frequencies under the same test. I mention sodium and ammonium chloride because they show in the spectrum lines of the stars and are common in the earth. We know, too, that the reason one planet or star appears red, blue, green or white can be due only to the frequency or wave length of its reflected solar light.
The piezoelectric and pyroelectric properties of crystals, as discovered in recent years through intensive research in many quarters, particularly by the U. S. Naval Research Laboratory, and culminating in the present-day radio practice of utilizing quartz crystals as frequency controls in broadcast and marine transmitters, are direct evidence that the wave length and wave frequency of a body having definite (crystalline) electrical axes is relative to its diameter, circumference and mass, as well as dependent upon its substance.
Since the planets (not to mention the stars) are of widely different size, mass and density, the light waves they each reflect to earth carry a "sideband" wave of the lower frequency of the oscillating or vibrating planet, just as the carrier wave of a broadcast transmitter carries the superimposed audio-frequency of the program as a relatively "long-wave" wave or sideband, which is “unhorsed” by the detector tube of your radio and passed on into the loudspeaker of your program, while the "horse" (the carrier wave) goes galloping on.
It is thus to be seen that the inducement (electro-magnetic wave induction) of a planet exists neither necessarily, nor probably, by virtue of its reflected solar light upon us, but is due rather to the superimposed lower (and quite invisible) frequency of the planet as an oscillating crystal that rides that light wave to us over the great distances it would not be able to travel undiminished if it did not have the "light horse" as to ride by reason of the planet’s reflected sunlight.
As a simple analogy we may say that Paul Revere (the planet), carrying his message (the planet’s own frequency), would have been tired out and failed in his purpose had he not had his horse (light frequencies) to ride the distance. For, as I have earlier pointed out, long waves or low frequencies, such as are necessary to carry a program and operate the audio circuits of a radio, meet too much resistance in traveling far through space unless they are carried "on the back" of a radio wave of sufficient shortness or high frequency to convert the ordinarily insulating ether into an excellent conductor by the reversal of Ohm’s law of resistance. This is not theory. Ask any radio engineer.
By passing the carrier wave of a transmitter through a quartz crystal cut to a definite diameter and thickness and with the proper plane with reference to its electrical axis, the broadcast station is held exactly to its authorized wave length. The only thing radio engineers and scientists in general are slow to accept is the fact that each planet is such a crystal reflecting sunlight, itself an electromagnetic wave, back to earth at a definite frequency that acts upon us through sympathetic nerve response in a different way and degree from the wave reflected by a larger or smaller planet oscillating at another harmonic of sunlight because of its diameter, mass, etc.
A second important fact about piezoelectric crystals, such as quartz, tourmaline, Rochelle salts, etc., is that when they are caused to oscillate in a high (as radio) frequency circuit they change their dimensions and shape, and if certain maximum electrical potentials (voltage) be exceeded the crystal heats and cracks on cleavage lines definite to its electrical axis.
If, now, we view the earth as a composite crystal and as possessing these piezoelectric and pyroelectric properties in its quartz, etc.; and if we consider the earth’s many electrical axes, and their shifts of stress due to the moving electromagnetic planes of the Sun’s and planets’ radial electric waves to earth, as they change positions in their orbits, as at once conclusive of the relation of earthquakes to planetary cycles, and obtain further mathematical approach towards a solution of their times and location.
Space will not permit adequate discussion of this subject; but it may interest students to know that oscillating crystals manifest three fundamental frequencies and that they are rich in harmonics. For example, five different samples of high-grade quartz show fundamental frequencies of 75, 105 and 450 kilocycles. These are familiar crystalline terms (astrologically ineptly termed "aspects") in terms of "degree of oscillation per 1000 miles."
It is the old story repeated. Whether we study astrology, astronomy, physics, electrophysics, radio or electromagnetism, however, men of supposedly "different"” sciences are now beginning to come together and compare and dovetail their findings, as never before.
