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|    David Mitchell to Laura    |
|    Re: Nonphysical hand jumping out... / re    |
|    04 Feb 05 08:39:53    |
      From: david@edenroad.demon.co.uk              On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 08:05:45 +0100, Laura wrote:              > While that original idea has been abandoned when it became understood how       > cells do divide, there may be some merit to the idea that cells do       > communicate with their immediate neighbors using photons (named biophotons       > because of their function and origin rather than any difference from regular       > photons), and this is being researched.       > So, the body may give off an incredibly tiny amount of (technically) visible       > light, and the place where this would be most visible would of course be by       > looking at the retina through the pupil.              Why? Wouldn't the skine be more luminous?              > That the body gives off a sort of light, only not in the visible spectrum,       > is of course well known. Anything over absolute zero temperature does.       > Infrared light.       > The thing about these biophotons is that they are apparently in the visible       > band, though far too few to see.              The figuers I have here suggest a frequency of 200-800nm, and 20 orders       of magnitude weaker than common fluorescence of photophosphorence.              It's still a little "fringe" for my taste though. :-)              --       =======================================================================       = David --- If you use Microsoft products, you will, inevitably, get       = Mitchell --- viruses, so please don't add me to your address book.       =======================================================================              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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