Kirlian photography

Kirlian photography refers to a anatomy of photogram fabricated with electricity. It is alleged afterwards Semyon Kirlian, who in 1939 accidentally apparent that if an commodity on a accurate bowl is affiliated to a antecedent of voltage an angel is produced on the accurate plate.1

Kirlian's work, from 1939 onward, complex an absolute rediscovery of a abnormality and address abnormally alleged "electrography", "electrophotography" and "corona acquittal photography." The Kirlian address is acquaintance photography, in which the accountable is in absolute acquaintance with a blur placed aloft a answerable metal plate.

The basal physics (which makes xerographic artful possible) was explored as aboriginal as 1777 by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (see Lichtenberg figures). Afterwards workers in the acreage included Nikola Tesla; assorted added individuals explored the aftereffect in the afterwards 19th and aboriginal 20th centuries.

Kirlian said that the angel he was belief ability be compared with the animal aura. An agreement in affirmation of activity fields generated by active entities involves demography Kirlian acquaintance photographs of a best blade at set periods, its bit-by-bit bane agnate with a abatement in the backbone of the aura. In some experiments, if a area of a blade was broken abroad afterwards the aboriginal photograph, a aside angel of the missing area would abide if a additional photograph was taken. The Archives of American Art Journal of the Smithsonian Institution appear a arch commodity with reproductions of images of this phenomenon.specify James Randi has appropriate that this aftereffect was due to contagion of the bottle plates, which were reused for both the "before" and "after" photographs.2

Research

In accession to active material, azoic altar such as bill will aswell aftermath images on the blur in a Kirlian photograph setup. In the United States, Dr. Thelma Moss of UCLA adherent abundant time and activity to the abstraction of Kirlian photography if she led the parapsychology class there in the 1970s. 3

Also, in the 1970s analyst Joe H. Slate Ph.D. led analysis at Athens State University beneath the United States Army Aviation and Missile Command as activity "Kirlian Photography" (Featured in the History Channel's Vampire Secrets).

Current analysis continues by Dr. Konstantin Korotkov4 in the Russian University, St. Petersburg State Technical University of Informational Technologies, Mechanics and Optics. Dr. Korotkov has appear several books.5 He uses GDV (Gas Discharge Visualization) based on the Kirlian Effect. GDV instruments use bottle electrodes to actualize a pulsed electrical acreage action (called "perturbation technique") to admeasurement electro-photonic glow.6

The Korotkov methods are acclimated in some hospitals and able-bodied training programs in Russia and abroad as antitoxin abstracts for audition stress. The Russian Academy of Science7 has accustomed the GDV techniques and accessories in 1999 for accepted analytic use,6unreliable source? admitting some forms of this approval, according to the certificates Dr. Korotkov himself shows in assorted web sites covers acquiescence with accepted electrical assurance (standards 61010 and 61326).8

There has been all-encompassing appear analysis in peer-reviewed accurate journals apropos GDV and accompanying material, including several online writing in the Journal of Applied Physics and in IEEE articles.9

Explanations

Outside of the accepted explanations for the phenomena there is the achievability that the images produced may be acquired by a voltage candelabrum effect, agnate to those apparent from added top voltage sources such as the Van de Graaff architect or Tesla coil. In a blurred room, this is arresting as a aside afterglow but, in this case, the blur is afflicted in a hardly altered way. Color accurate blur is calibrated to anxiously aftermath colors if apparent to accustomed light. The candelabrum acquittal could accept a somewhat altered aftereffect on the altered layers of dye acclimated to achieve this result, consistent in assorted colors depending on the bounded acuteness of the discharge.10

In popular culture

The concert programme from David Bowie's 1976 Station to Station bout featured some after-effects of the technique, and in 1975 Bowie claimed to accept accomplished clearly altered results, application his fingertip and his crucifix, afore and afterwards he took cocaine.11 The David Bowie anthology Earthling and the alone "Little Wonder" acclimated the images Bowie created as allotment of their awning and autogenous artwork.

Science fiction columnist Piers Anthony wrote a alternation of 5 books (Cluster, Chaining the Lady, Kirlian Quest, Thousandstar and Viscous Circle) based on the apriorism of Kirlian transfer, the abstraction that a person's appearance resides in his or her Kirlian ambience and can be transferred to a host, in aftereffect appointment the alone into addition body, appropriately acceptance the capital appearance to bisect galaxies and "be" a array of aliens during the advance of a alone book.

In the cine Omen IV: The Awakening, Delia's babysitter, Jo, takes Delia to a analytic carnival area she and Delia had their account taken with a Kirlian camera.

In the Old World of Darkness book Project Twilight, Kirlian photography is one of the methods accessible to government vampire hunters to ascertain ghosts, spirits, and auras. In the New World of Darkness book Hunter: The Vigil, Kirlian accurate accessories is acclimated by some hunters to investigate abnormal phenomena.

In Margaret Atwood's abstract dystopian novel, Oryx and Crake (2002), scientists architect "Kirilian energy-sensing algae" that is able of audition animal emotions.12

In the X-Files division 4 adventure "Leonard Betts", Kirlian photography was acclimated to photograph the decapitated head, absolute the aside ambience of a man's shoulders.