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sidered as official declarations. But, after thinking over all that you
showed, and told me, during my recent visit, I have come to unequivocal
conclusions on the physical value of the instrumentation you are
using to pursue your research.
As I told you, if my knowledge of physics and mathematics can be of
service to you, I would be very glad to put them at your disposition.
It can be deduced that Aumont's enthusiasm for what he had seen
caused a stir in the Quebec Ministry of Health, for on 17 July, Naessens
received an official letter from that office stating that the minister was
eager to have his microscope "officially examined" if its inventor would
"furnish in writing details concerning this apparatus, including all its optical,
and other, particularities, as well as its powers of magnification, so that
experts to be named by the minister can evaluate its unique properties."
In reply to this letter, Naessens's lawyer sent a list of details as requested
and stated: "You will, of course, understand that it is impossible for
Monsieur Naessens to furnish you, in correspondence, with the complete
description of a highly novel microscope which is, moreover, unprotected
by any patent." Then, to explain why no patent had yet been granted, he
added a key phrase: "since its mathematical constants have, up to the present,
not been elucidated in spite of a great deal of tiresome work performed
in that regard." In other words, it seemed that Aumont and his colleagues
had been unable to explain the superiority of the microscope in
terms of all the known laws of optics and it still seems that, so far, no one
else has been able to do so.
There have been interesting recent reports on new microscopes being
developed that apparently rival the magnification powers of Naessens's
somatoscope. It would seem, however, that the 150 angstroms of resolution
achieved by Naessens's instrument has not yet been matched.
The Los Angeles-based World Research Foundation's flyer, presenting
its autumn (1990) conference "New Directions for Medicine ... Focusing
on Solutions," announced the development of an Ergonom-400x microscope,
used by a German Heilpraktiker, or healer, Bernhard Muschlien,
who paid a visit to Naessens's laboratory in 1985. While his microscope
is apparently capable of achieving 25,000-fold magnification, its stated
resolution is 100 nanometres (1000 angstroms), or several orders of magnitude
less than the 150 angstroms developed with the somatoscope.*
In the July 1990 issue of Popular Science, an article "Super Scopes"
refers to an extraordinary new technology in microscopy engineered at
Cornell University under the direction of Professor Michael Isaacson, and
also in Israel. The technology uses not lenses but apertures smaller than
* One nanometre is one-billionth of a metre; one angstrom is ten-billionths of a metre, or
one-tenth of a nanometre.