Re: What crystalline compounds are in our cells and at what resonating freq?

Hi Linda,

I hope you won't mind if we take a logical, scientific approach to your question. It begins with a statement - "all crystals resonate at some unique frequency" and then everything that follows relies on that first assumption.

Well, that initial assumption is wrong. Crystals do not resonate at a unique frequency. In fact, this statement is meaningless to a scientist. A crystal is defined at Wikipedia as "a solid in which the constituent atoms, molecules, or ions are packed in a regularly ordered, repeating pattern extending in all three spatial dimensions". There is certainly vibrational motion in a crystal - the atoms, molecules or ions and the bonds between them can move to a certain extent dependent on the temperature and the nature of the bonds. However, the notion that the crystal as a whole has some peculiar, unique vibration is simply false.

Wikipedia also contains a concise definition of resonance - "the tendency of a system to absorb more energy when the frequency of the oscillations matches the system's natural frequency of vibration (its resonant frequency) than it does at other frequencies". An example of this is when you push someone on a swing and if you time your push correctly, they get higher and higher and you need then only to push them gently to maintain this height. The swing has a resonant frequency and you are putting energy into this system by pushing. Some crystals may have a resonant frequency, but where is the external energy input at the correct frequency for resonance to occur? There isn't one - people who refer to resonating crystals are simply mis-using the word resonance.

The human body contains substances that are mineral in nature (such as bone and enamel) and there is a degree of order to many cellular structures, such as the proteins in biological membranes. Calcium phosphate is often a component of the body's mineralised material and it is crystalline to a certain extent. However, there are few truly crystalline structures in the body by the strict definition that we gave above.

I'd like to direct you to a very similar MadSci question and answer regarding crystals and brain waves. Sean explains very nicely why scientists have a rather low regard for people who talk about things like the "healing power of crystals". It's pseudoscience, not science, and whilst it's fine for people to believe whatever they want, it's not fine for them to make claims based on ignorance, misinformation or misunderstanding and pretend that they have a scientific basis.