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. :-)   
      
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