Theory

Following the end of WWI and throughout the 1920's, a Russian engineer living in France named Georges Lakhovsky developed an unusual theory about the nature of cellular-level organization and biological activity. He theorized that various structures within a cell's nucleus such as the genetic strands of DNA, with its attendant protein sheath (along with the cellular fluid) possessed electrical/magnetic attributes that we normally associate with electronic circuits: specifically radio circuits.

He proposed that the nuclear strands of DNA functioned exactly as the coils of a radio oscillator circuit and possessed the electrical characteristic of self- inductance. He further argued that since the DNA strands were physically separated from its surrounding protective sheath , that these two elements acted like the two plates of a capacitor and possessed the electrical characteristic of capacitance (the intracellular fluid possibly playing the role of the electrolyte found in a conventional electrolytic capacitor). He proposed the revolutionary idea (at the time) that organic, biological substances possessed electromagnetic characteristics and could conduct electrons (current) and exhibit the property of conductance. Finally, he reasoned that any organic substrata, not being a perfect conductor, is going to exhibit some resistance to the flow of electrons and therefore the electrical characteristic of resistance is also present within this structure.

These 3 characteristics, Inductance, Capacitance, and Resistance (or inversely, Conductance) combined in a favorable configuration can exhibit a phenomenon of physics known as resonance and create a type of radio circuit called an oscillator. Assuming that the values of inductance, capacitance and resistance are fixed, an oscillator will continually produce a sine wave of a specific frequency. All oscillators have a feedback loop in which a portion of the "output" energy is returned to the "input" side of the circuit. This feedback of energy allows the oscillator to reinforce the resonance of the circuit and continually produce sine waves at its specific resonant frequency. If you change one of the parameters that affects the oscillation rate (E.g. the inductance, capacitance, or the resistance) , then the frequency of the oscillation will change.

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