Q-Link in the Context of Mainstream Science

What is a Q-Link ?

Q-Link is a device that resonates with the biofield around the human body. Research shows that this electromagnetic field is produced by the cells in the body and plays a vital role in cell-to-cell communication. It is proposed that a well functioning biofield is essential for optimum health and wellbeing. In the course of everyday living, electromagnetic stress (e.g. from mobile phones, and computer terminals) inevitably compromises the integrity of the biofield and this in turn places stress on the cellular body. Our proposal is that the Q-Link works as a catalyst in the biofield to help it maintain a dynamic balance in the face of such stress factors.

The technology inside Q-Link devices is called ‘Sympathetic Resonance Technology' (SRT). It has been developed over the past 23 years to interact and enhance the relationship between physical mass and its field dynamic counterpart. Over the years, many people have claimed to benefit from wearing Q-Link’s. Medical trials continue to place these anecdotal claims on a sound scientific basis.

What is the Biofield ?

Ancient medical traditions have talked about the biofield as a 'subtle energy' that supports and nourishes the body. Some popular authors have tried to make the link between modern physics and this energy [1][2]. Formulating such a 'science of the spirit' is not the purpose here. Recent developments in biophysics mean that Biofield phenomena can start to be understood in terms of mainstream science.

According to the new science, the biofield is an electromagnetic field produced by bioelectric processes in the body. Many different wavelengths constitute this field that fills the body and extends beyond it. The science of electromagnetic Biocommunication [3] studies how biologically useful information is carried by this field.

In layman's terms, the biofield is an 'information cloud'. The cells of the body have the ability to emit into, and receive information from, this 'cloud'. One could say that the cells are like thousands of radio transmitters and receivers, and the biofield the body’s own 'wireless' transmission system. This view will be explained in more precise terms.

The Biofield and Traditional Bioscience

Traditionally, bioscience has assumed that the nervous and endocrine systems are the only information pathways different parts of the cellular body have to communicate with each other. Every co-ordinated whole body function, from walking to the complexities of the immune system was supposed to be understood in terms of these systems. (Recently neuro-science and endocrine- science have been integrated into the field of psychoneuroimmunology [4].) However, it has become clear to the leading bio-physicists that electromagnetic biocommunication plays a pivotal role in cell-to-cell communication [5].

The reality of biocommunication had been overlooked for so long because the biofield was assumed to be too weak to have any effect in the body [6]. Mainstream researchers concentrated their efforts on strong externally produced fields of over 100 W/m² that can heat the body and even cause cellular damage. The internally produced biofield of the body is less than 1W/m². At this power density there is no heating effect in room temperature conditions. (The negligible heating effect is of the same magnitude as placing your hand 2 meters away from a conventional 60W light bulb.) 

The earliest experiments by Gurvich in the 1920's established the reality of electromagnetic biocommunication. Biofield research is today being carried out by eminent researchers [3][7][8]. Most research has been focused on the biocommunication that takes place in the visible and infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Biofield Theory

Some theoretical models of the biofield have proposed extending the existing field theories of physics [9][10]. Most notable are the extensions of Maxwell’s equations to take account of the as yet undetected radiation called non-hertzian [11]. (An excellent review of non-Hertzian and other theories is given by Bischof [12].) These speculative theories may form part of mainstream Physics in the future, but are currently are not well received by the establishment. This paper is concerned with outlining a model of the biofield that is grounded entirely in mainstream electromagnetic theory without reference to speculative new physics.

The most important factor in understanding the physics of the biofield is to appreciate how information can be transmitted by fields as weak as those produced by the body. Linear information theory predicts that biocommunication is impossible because any signal with a power around 1W/m² should be overwhelmed by noise from background radiation. This theory, however, is based on equilibrium thermodynamics, which takes a uniform distribution of bio-radiation throughout the body. The Nobel Laureate, Ilya Prigogine, has pointed out that an essential feature of all life is that it exists far from thermodynamic equilibrium. His ideas have become widely known in recent years as ‘Complex Systems Theory’ and ‘Chaos Theory’ [13]. Scientifically speaking, a non-linear theory of the biofield based on non-equilibrium thermodynamics does allow signals to be preserved above the background noise [14].

The theory of non-equilibrium thermodynamics is perhaps best approached by an example; We all know the wonderful patterns that birds make as they flock together. In terms of physics this is a complex system. Intuitively we know that there is no central choreographer to the behaviour, but the patterns simply emerge out of the reactions each individual bird makes to its nearest neighbours. We can now make a direct analogy between the way birds behave in flight and the behaviour of the biofield of an organism; Each individual bird is like a single cell. Whereas birds change their flight direction in response to other birds, cells respond to changes in the biofield surrounding them by altering the intensity of bio-radiation they emit. These interactions between cells produce patterns of bio-radiation across, and extending beyond the whole organism. These patterns contain information about the metabolic processes within the cells. Whereas the radiation from a single cell would be swamped by the background radiation, the coordinated pattern of radiation emission from millions of cells can stand out clearly from the random noise. This coordination of cells producing bioradiation is called coherence [5]. Coherent communication between cells provides a mechanism for metabolic processes in cells all over the body to co-ordinate with each other. Coherence is the vital link that makes the biofield a viable medium for communication in the body. An incoherent biofield cannot provide a communication system.

In a complex system, there are many coherent patterns that the system may assume. Over the course of time, the system will settle into one pattern for a time before moving into a period of incoherent disorganisation. When it emerges from disorder, the system locates and settles into another, perhaps different, coherent state. This behaviour is obvious when looking at birds as they assume a flight pattern for a time, then suddenly restructure their formation in response to external factors or inevitable random elements. For the biofield it is the same. We can visualise the biofield 'information cloud' as not static, but making transitions between a set of different coherent patterns. What causes the biofield to move cyclically between periods of coherence and incoherence is either randomness in the background field or internal or external electromagnetic stress factors. These periods of incoherence in the biofield result in a breakdown of the biocommunication system. As the body relies partly on the biofield for co-ordinating its functions, times of incoherence result in disconnection in the body as a holistic system. It is clear that the faster the biofield makes its transitions though incoherent episodes the less stressful it is to the body. If the biofield is constantly subjected to electromagnetic stress it may remain out of coherence virtually all the time, with implications for overall health and wellbeing. This concept of coherence is crucial in the functioning of the Q-Link and we shall return to it later.

The many Channels of the Biofield

The basic biofield model is valid, but there are a few more levels of complexity we need to address before we can grasp Q-Link function. Firstly the non-equilibrium thermodynamic model assumed that it was simply the cells themselves, which emit and absorb bio-radiation of varying intensity, but the same wavelength. In reality the situation is far more complex. There are many possible electromagnetic resonators in the body, from the constituent components of the cells, to whole body systems built of many millions of cells. We must replace the idea of single cells interacting with the biofield with a hierarchy of structures from the tiny size of proteins upwards to the whole organism. Each of these structures will respond in a different narrow wavelength region of the electromagnetic spectrum. (See Table) The resonant wavelengths are determined by the size of the hierarchical structure in question, so that the larger structures operate on longer wavelengths. The Biofield is thus a multi-channel system operating on many different wavelengths simultaneously. The total biofield is a superposition of several patterns. Each of these patterns is a complex system expressed on a different wavelength channel. The different patterns overlay each other in the space within and around the body.

Table: Some biological structures and their corresponding resonant frequencies

Table Note 1. The cell membrane thickness appears twice in the table. Fröhlich has pointed out that cell membranes can resonate in the sub millimetre region in addition to the micron region of the spectrum [15]. This is due to the very high polarisability of the membrane coupled with its low degrees of (thermodynamic) freedom. Cell membranes can therefore effect a Bose-Einstein like condensation when interacting with a low intensity microwave field even at body temperature. Other than in high temperature superconductors, this type of behaviour is unique. This illustrates just how unexpected the biofield interactions of living tissue can be.

Table Note 2. A Q-Link will interact with some wavelength regions more than others. The reason is the different absorption properties of biological tissue at different wavelengths. For example visible light may only travel a few millimetres in tissue (and then inevitably be blocked by clothing and Q-Link casing). Therefore, we do not expect the Q-Link to directly effect the visible light radiation. However, the other wavelength regions have much longer absorption depths and so will reach the Q-Link worn outside the body.

Coupling of Biofield Channels

The different biofield channels are at different wavelengths and so do not interact with each other directly. At the same time they are not entirely independent of one another as they are all anchored in the same biology. The exact mechanisms are not yet well mapped out by scientists but the basic behaviour is clear. If, for example, one component of the biofield is interacting with the cell membrane and another with the microtubuals, the behaviour of the two are inevitably linked through the integrated processes within the cell.

Other mechanisms of coupling between the very long and very short wavelengths of the biofield are connected by the macroscopic and microscopic behaviour of the nervous system. One fascinating link is between solitons of very different scale in the human body.

Solitons are a type of dissipative structure, which moves in a wave motion and is unique in being able to keep its structure for long periods of time [16]. Popp has studied microscopic solitons, which propagate through complex molecules in the cell. He is especially interested in DNA as an 'exiplex' molecule, which is capable of emitting and storing visible light. Thus DNA contributes to a biofield channel in the visible and infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. His discovery is that when DNA interacts with this biofield component soliton waves can be produced in the double helix structure. (To avoid confusion, the biofield is a dissipative structure composed of electromagnetic radiation and the soliton wave is a mechanical vibration in the DNA, which is a different dissipative structure.) It is likely that as the soliton wave propagates in the double helix structure it influences the expression of the genetic code. Thus we see how the behaviour of one component of the biofield can influence the development and reproduction of cells. Significantly, Popp has been able to show how the biofield emitted by healthy cells differs greatly from that emitted by cancerous cells.

Solitons have also been observed in some of the largest structures in the body. In certain advanced chiropractic techniques like Network Spinal Analysis solitons, which propagate though the spine as mechanical waves are observed as a matter of routine [17]. Here, spinal wave motion causes a piezo-electric effect in the nervous tissue as well as perturbations in the cerebro-spinal fluid. These in turn cause transitions to be made in the long wavelength biofield channels between different coherent dissipative structures.

Quantum Biology

Davidoff has pointed out that the interaction of the biofield with cells in the body is determined by Quantum Mechanics. By extension, the Q-Link interactions will also be quantum mechanical. The branch of quantum mechanics that deals with electromagnetic effects is called Quantum-electrodynamics (QED).  The basic QED theory applied to biology is, however, linear and does not account for the non-equilibrium thermodynamic conditions of the biofield. Davidoff has developed a Non-linear approach that combines QED with the theory of Prigogine [18]. He has been especially interested in investigating bio-molecular solitons.

Non-linear Quantum field theory is tremendously interesting and quantum mechanics may effect biofield interactions in as yet poorly understood ways. For the purposes of coming to a first appreciation that there are good scientific reasons why the Q-Link works, such complexities need not be addressed.

Some aspects of the Quantum Biofield theory already seem clear. Quantum mechanical behaviour should allow more flexibility in the biofield due to the perturbation caused by zero point energy. We hypothesise that the field will move between the different coherent modes more frequently than the non-quantum model predicts. Additionally it is expected to exhibit these transitions more quickly and so overall spend less time in periods of incoherence. Very loosely speaking quantum mechanical effects function something like a 'lookout' for the biofield; they are able to locate nearby coherent states and 'pull' the field directly in their direction. This reduces the time the biofield spends in incoherent states before it finds a new coherent pattern.

Basic Q-Link Functioning

The biofield is understood as a quantum-electrodynamic dissipative structure that contains information important for the integrated functioning of the body. When it is worn, a Q-Link is effectively placed in this field, outside the body. The Q-Link resonant cell is a complex array of microscopic waveguides and resonators [19]. These resonate with sets of coherent structures in the biofield spread across many wavelength channels from the infrared to the short wavelength radio region. (The details of these resonances are naturally a trade secret.) The Q-Link therefore provides tiny amounts of feedback (<10^-6W) to the body only when the biofield is operating close to certain coherent modes on one or many channels. This feedback acts as a catalyst allowing the biofield to locate its coherent modes more quickly and spend far less time out of coherence.

Before explaining this catalytic behaviour more fully two points are important. Firstly, the Q-Link contains no power source of its own and so does not exert an external influence on the biofield.  It merely feeds-back to the body's biofield selected bio-information originally produced internally by the body itself. The second point is that, the Q-Link does not interact or block off external electromagnetic pollution. Its beneficial effect relies purely on augmenting the body's own ability to maintain a more coherent biofield in the face of external electromagnetic stress. These points together make Q-Link a unique and symbiotic technology working with the innate ability of the body to maintain a dynamic balance.

Q-Link as a Biofield Catalyst

The apparent paradox of the body's biofield is that it is sensitive to the minute feedback from a Q-Link yet robust enough by itself to maintain integrity in the face of much greater intensities of external electromagnetic pollution. The understanding this paradox lies in the theory of dissipative structures developed by Prigogine and extended by Davidoff.

Each channel of the biofield can exist in a coherent state. These states are able to withstand external perturbations within certain limits. However, when these limits are exceeded, incoherence ensues for a time, until a new coherent state is located. If one channel is disturbed then the coherence of the other channels will normally remain intact. As the biofield channels are linked through cellular processes, this insures an internal safety mechanism, which will pull the disturbed channel more quickly back into equilibrium. This makes the biofield resilient to external electromagnetic pollution. Researchers have suggested that the development of this resilience is an evolutionary adaptation to the electromagnetic stress from natural sources. Today, man-made electromagnetic pollution ensures that the robustness of biofield is under greater stress than ever [20]. Many channels of the biofield may be under stress simultaneously and the overall field may spend more time in incoherence than coherence. This can have serious consequences for the integrated function of the whole human being.

Mirroring the resilience of non-linear systems to random perturbations, their other feature is sensitivity to precisely applied perturbations. In layman's terms, if, when the biofield is in incoherence, it is given a precisely timed 'nudge', it can will to return to coherence much more rapidly. It is as if Non-linear systems have it both ways; They can be subjected to enormous amounts of random stress and still slowly recover, and yet when given just the right stimulation they quickly return to coherence. This is an essential principal behind Q-Link functioning. The Q-Link resonant cell is finely tuned to the most important coherent modes of several biofield components. When the biofield is in incoherence, all it takes is for a channel to pass close to a Q-Link resonance. The tiny amount of feedback' which is then given out from the Q-Link, is enough to catalyse the transition back to coherence of that channel, (and in cascade fashion the whole biofield). The Q-Link therefore functions as a 'frequency key' to the biofield and greatly increases the proportion of time it remains in coherence.

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