RADIO CONTACT WITH DEAD

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 9 February 1944, Page 3

RADIO CONTACT WITH DEAD

AUSTRALIAN’S THEORY “DIFFERENT VIBRATION RATE” Sydney, Feb. 4. A world figure in radio science, the chairman of Amalgamated Wireless of Australia, Sir Ernest Fisk, told a meeting of the Legacy Club in Sydney that the world might one day hope to communicate by radio with the dead. Expecting scepticism, Sir Ernest Fisk later said that when he had told businessmen at a luncheon 25 years ago that one day Australians would hear the human voice by radio from London they had been equally incredulous. Sir Ernest Fisk said at the Legacy Club that he believed that if the dead lived, they lived perhaps in a different realm of the universal ether, and that they reacted perhaps to different wavelengths. "Everything of which we are conscious as human beings is the result of what fundamentally, we may say, has roots in electrical energy," said Sir Ernest Fisk. “The development of radio science will enable us in the future, I hope, to get in touch with j our fallen comrades. Many highly sci- I entitle people have given up the idea ' that the phenomenon of life is purely ! a matter of chance. Most have come j to the conclusion that life has been designed. “I prefer to keep off the theological or | religious subjects,” he said, “but we j feel helpless over this problem of pur people in the hands of that beastly , enemy, that devilish enemy. We can i do nothing about it. The Government can do nothing, but I think that some- i thing might be done perhaps by your Legacy Club in using the minds of' those unfortunate fellows, by using their spirits. You can think about them, pray for them, because of this universe of mind or will. Surely it is worth trying. The best way to do that, the only approach we have in our lives to-day to that ‘supposititious’ world, if you like, is through our religious institutions.” Expanding his views in a later inter- ' view, Sir Ernest Fisk said: "I believe that if you and I at this moment ‘died’, j dropped our physical carcases, we would wake up in a new and different world—a world with a different vibration rate. I think it is possible, through radio science, to contact that other world. If this universe is fundamentally a universe of mind there must be a controlling mind, and our individual minds must be related to it This is speculative, and, although it is beyond scientific knowledge, it is based on existing science. The best way and probably the only sure approach we have in our lives to-day to this r ealm of action is through our churches and other religious organisations” Professor V. A. Bailey, Professor of Experimental Physics at Sydney University, said he had no serious comment to make on Sir Ernest Fisk’s theory “If these ‘dead’ people are ahve they will be at a disadvantage without radio receivers.’’ he said. Slr f-rnest Fisk is an Associate Member of the Institute of Electrical En/Australia), and a Fellow of the American Institute 0 f Radio Engmeers He has been president of 4 r ,v, A f tr3ll ? n lnstltute an d vice-presi-of the American institute. He received his technical education at the Marconi m°nT Pan J S scl ? 001 ' which he entered in 1906, and received the first direct radio message from Britain to Australia He is a member of many public bodies.