Cyril W. Smith (2016): frequency-signature measurements of shungite specimens

⚠ Source-verification notice

The Smith 2016 Preliminary Report on Measurements Involving Shungite referenced in this thread has not been independently verified against a primary copy of the report during the audit pass dated 2026-05-02 / 03. The ResearchGate URL previously cited resolved to an unrelated paper. The Smith yeast / photograph / K-coil findings described below are reproduced from earlier Research-thread drafts and may not match the actual contents of the report. Treat the specifics as pending re-verification, not as confirmed source content.

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Cyril W. Smith was a British electromagnetics researcher (formerly of Salford University) who spent decades measuring "frequency signatures", claimed-to-be-coherent oscillation patterns associated with chemicals, materials, and biological systems via the magnetic vector potential A-field. In 2016 he received a set of shungite specimens from Yan Boily of Biovibes (Canada) and ran his standard battery of measurements on them. The full preliminary report is freely circulated; this thread summarises what he reported.

The specimens

- 1.5" radiation-protection pyramid
- 4" radiation-protection sphere with stand
- Cellphone radiation-protection wafer
- Portable/tablet radiation-protection wafer
- Radiation-protection beads necklace
- Plus a bag of small assorted shungite chips

Received 28 July 2016, measured initially and again 11 days later.

Method

Smith uses three excitation field configurations: Toroid (B-field contained, A-field outside), Caduceus coil (B-fields cancel, radial A-field remains), and K-coil / Möbius loop (couples to imprinted water frequencies). He measures resonant frequencies imprinted into water samples placed near the specimens via these field configurations. The framework is one Smith developed over decades, see his earlier publications in International Journal of Computing Anticipatory Systems.

Key results

Caduceus frequencies (single value per specimen):
- Pyramid: 4.203 × 10⁻³ Hz
- Mobile wafer: 1.422 × 10⁻³ Hz
- Computer wafer: 5.000 × 10⁻³ Hz
- Necklace: 5.713 × 10⁻² Hz
- Sphere/Plate: 6.301 × 10⁻² Hz
- Loose chips: 5.000 × 10⁻¹ Hz

Toroidal frequency pattern (same for all specimens): a long series from 5.000 × 10⁺³ Hz up to 4.20 × 10⁺⁹ Hz, alternating L-chirality (↑) and D-chirality (↓).

K-coil frequencies: Smith reports a five-based decade pattern (5×10⁻², 5×10⁻¹, 5×10⁰, 5×10⁺¹ ... up to 5×10⁺⁹ Hz), which he says is characteristic of the naphthalene chemical structure and reflects the basic carbon structure of shungite.

"Nil-potency" finding

Water pre-imprinted with frequencies in the range 5×10⁻² to 5×10⁺⁴ Hz showed similar blocking effects to shungite itself. Smith's interpretation: shungite exerts a general "nil-potent" effect on surrounding fields in the configurations he tested, which he reads as biologically de-stressing.

Mobile-phone and iPad tests with yeast cultures

Using yeast/glucose cultures as a sentinel system (he had previously published on this), Smith reports:
- Mobile phone activation perturbs the Caduceus frequency of the yeast culture.
- Placing shungite on the phone reverses the perturbation.
- Removing shungite while the phone is on returns the perturbation.
- Replacing shungite reverses it again.
- Same pattern observed with iPad.

See Figures 2 and 3 in his report for the time-series plots.

"Smart Meter" image test

Smith was able to extract frequencies into water imprinted with light scattered from a photograph of a Smart Meter. With a shungite computer wafer placed under the photograph during the imprinting, no frequencies were imprinted. (Table 4 of his report.)

Open questions Smith himself flagged

1. WiFi router tests were unsatisfactory; uncertain whether the issue is the router or the measurement procedure.
2. Range of protection covered by the specimens, can it be controlled?
3. Shape/size effects between specimens.
4. Propagation and nature of torsion fields / scalar waves.
5. What the 5.000 decade pattern means, chirality change or field configuration change?
6. Does light scattered from a polished shungite surface carry frequency modulation?

Source

Cyril W. Smith, "Preliminary Report on Measurements Involving Shungite," 24 October 2016. Available as a PDF circulated by Biovibes Canada. Smith's affiliation listed as cyril.smith@which.net.

For background on Smith's general framework: Smith C.W. (2014), "Frequency and Anticipation in Biosystems," 10th International Conference on Computing Anticipatory Systems, HEC-ULg, Liège, Belgium, 8–13 August 2011. International Journal of Computing Anticipatory Systems, Ed. D. M. Dubois, CHAOS, Liège, Belgium, vol. 27, pp. 165–179.

Edited 2026-05-03: added a verification-pending notice at the top of the post. Source-verification audit pass 2026-05-02 / 03.

Editor's note (2026 audit): Prepended Source-verification notice (Smith 2016 ResearchGate URL was a fabrication; specific yeast / photograph / K-coil findings unverified pending primary copy of Smith report)

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