What do you think is the greatest loss for mankind? ...........
It’s the death of a great mind.
I wish the mind could be transferred to the computer. Well, that’s a long way to go because we don’t even know what “the mind” is in physical terms. However, the idea of extracting information from biophotons is not that impractical. After coming across so many research papers on Biophotons, I am convinced that they are the information carriers in living beings. If electromagnetic waves have such a great role in information transmission all around you, is it not very likely that they play that role even inside you?!! Electrical impulses though neurons are too slow to carry information. I believe that the case here is similar to information transmission through wires (landlines). There is no doubt that charges do flow through neurons, but they don’t transmit information.
Biophotons are just ordinary photons spontaneously emitted by living cells with wavelength in the range 260 to 800 nm. Cells & organims give off a pulsating glow with a mean intensity of some hundred photons per second per square centimeter. The intensity is so low that we need to amplify the signal millions of times using photo-multipliers to see them. Due to this low intensity, this cellular glow is also referred to as Ultra-weak bioluminescence. It is also due to this low intensity that i am interested in Single-photon Information transmission.
Biophotons were first discovered by Alexander Gurwitsch in 1923 in an attempt to solve the famous Gestaltbildungs problem, which is the question of how living tissues transform & transfer information about the size and shape of different structures. Gurwitsch used the stem of an onion root as detector and the tip of another one as an inductor of mitosis. The subject of observation was cell division at just the region of the stem the tip was pointing onto. It was observed that the cell growth on this region of the stem did not change in the case of normal window glass being squeezed between inductor and detector. However, as soon as the window glass was substituted with a quartz glass plate, the cell division rate increased significantly. Gurwitsch interpreted this effect as the mitotic activity of single photons of about 260 nm, triggering cell divisions. He called this photon emission from biological systems “mitogenetic radiation” and repeated the experiments successfully also with yeast and other biological systems.
In 1974, German biophysicist Fritz-Albert Popp who was involved with cancer research & wanted to find out why only one was carcinogenic of the two similar substances: benzo(a)pyrene & benzo(e)pyrene, found that benzo(a)pyrene differed from benzo(e)pyrene just by one of the five benzene rings which is responsible for fluorescence in the blue-violet spectral range. It was well known at that time that light in this spectral range could repair chromosome damage in seconds; a process known as “photo-repair”. In 1975, Popp’s student Bernhard Ruth built a highly sensitive emission photometer which made it possible to finally confirm the existence of “ultraweak photo emission” in biological systems and also allowed to investigate its detailed properties.
In 1981 Popp performed an experiment together with his student Martin Rattemeyer which showed that the helical molecules of DNA are the main source of biophoton emission in cell. This was verified by the later experiments by Wei Ping mei, Huggo Niggli, Roeland van Wijk and others. Popp developed the “exciplex model of DNA” together with Laser theoretician Keh-Hsueh Li of Chinese Academy of Sciences. This model successfully explained if the DNA molecule was at all able to absorb, store & emit light in a differentiated way. He hypothesized that light stored in DNA together with a coherent biophoton field that permeates the cell could be the central regulator.
Popp introduced the photon count statistics in biophoton research that made it possible to study the observed phenomena in the context of quantum optics. By applying photon count statistics in addition to the measurement of the pure spontaneous luminescence of organisms, it was possible to study a more complicated process called “delayed luminescence” which was induced or stimulated biophoton emission. More than 10 years of investigations by Popp’s group showed that the characteristic of the “hyperbolic decay” of this re-emitted radiation is a reliable indicator of the coherence of biophoton emission. Coherence of biophotons allowed them to interfere and indicated that they could be involved with information transfer and other regulative abilities. As a central element of his theory, in 1983, Popp developed a physical model of the possible mechanism of the regulation of biological & biochemical processes by the biophoton field. The laser-like coherence of the biophoton field is a significant attribute, making it a prime candidate for exchanging information in a highly functional, efficient and cooperative fashion, lending credence to the idea that it may be the intelligence factor behind biological processes.
My objective is to read information from biophotons in our nervous system. The first step would involve their detection using very sensitive photomultipliers or EM-CCD cameras which is not available in my institute (IIT Delhi). So this project has been postponed until I get a suitable lab & Scientist who can guide me. I am looking forward to an alternative imaging process called "Biophoton Autography". The next step would require Schottky-gated CdS nanowire nanosensors (or something similar) that can detect photons inside neural pathways.
It’s the death of a great mind.
I wish the mind could be transferred to the computer. Well, that’s a long way to go because we don’t even know what “the mind” is in physical terms. However, the idea of extracting information from biophotons is not that impractical. After coming across so many research papers on Biophotons, I am convinced that they are the information carriers in living beings. If electromagnetic waves have such a great role in information transmission all around you, is it not very likely that they play that role even inside you?!! Electrical impulses though neurons are too slow to carry information. I believe that the case here is similar to information transmission through wires (landlines). There is no doubt that charges do flow through neurons, but they don’t transmit information.
Biophotons are just ordinary photons spontaneously emitted by living cells with wavelength in the range 260 to 800 nm. Cells & organims give off a pulsating glow with a mean intensity of some hundred photons per second per square centimeter. The intensity is so low that we need to amplify the signal millions of times using photo-multipliers to see them. Due to this low intensity, this cellular glow is also referred to as Ultra-weak bioluminescence. It is also due to this low intensity that i am interested in Single-photon Information transmission.
Biophotons were first discovered by Alexander Gurwitsch in 1923 in an attempt to solve the famous Gestaltbildungs problem, which is the question of how living tissues transform & transfer information about the size and shape of different structures. Gurwitsch used the stem of an onion root as detector and the tip of another one as an inductor of mitosis. The subject of observation was cell division at just the region of the stem the tip was pointing onto. It was observed that the cell growth on this region of the stem did not change in the case of normal window glass being squeezed between inductor and detector. However, as soon as the window glass was substituted with a quartz glass plate, the cell division rate increased significantly. Gurwitsch interpreted this effect as the mitotic activity of single photons of about 260 nm, triggering cell divisions. He called this photon emission from biological systems “mitogenetic radiation” and repeated the experiments successfully also with yeast and other biological systems.
In 1974, German biophysicist Fritz-Albert Popp who was involved with cancer research & wanted to find out why only one was carcinogenic of the two similar substances: benzo(a)pyrene & benzo(e)pyrene, found that benzo(a)pyrene differed from benzo(e)pyrene just by one of the five benzene rings which is responsible for fluorescence in the blue-violet spectral range. It was well known at that time that light in this spectral range could repair chromosome damage in seconds; a process known as “photo-repair”. In 1975, Popp’s student Bernhard Ruth built a highly sensitive emission photometer which made it possible to finally confirm the existence of “ultraweak photo emission” in biological systems and also allowed to investigate its detailed properties.
In 1981 Popp performed an experiment together with his student Martin Rattemeyer which showed that the helical molecules of DNA are the main source of biophoton emission in cell. This was verified by the later experiments by Wei Ping mei, Huggo Niggli, Roeland van Wijk and others. Popp developed the “exciplex model of DNA” together with Laser theoretician Keh-Hsueh Li of Chinese Academy of Sciences. This model successfully explained if the DNA molecule was at all able to absorb, store & emit light in a differentiated way. He hypothesized that light stored in DNA together with a coherent biophoton field that permeates the cell could be the central regulator.
Popp introduced the photon count statistics in biophoton research that made it possible to study the observed phenomena in the context of quantum optics. By applying photon count statistics in addition to the measurement of the pure spontaneous luminescence of organisms, it was possible to study a more complicated process called “delayed luminescence” which was induced or stimulated biophoton emission. More than 10 years of investigations by Popp’s group showed that the characteristic of the “hyperbolic decay” of this re-emitted radiation is a reliable indicator of the coherence of biophoton emission. Coherence of biophotons allowed them to interfere and indicated that they could be involved with information transfer and other regulative abilities. As a central element of his theory, in 1983, Popp developed a physical model of the possible mechanism of the regulation of biological & biochemical processes by the biophoton field. The laser-like coherence of the biophoton field is a significant attribute, making it a prime candidate for exchanging information in a highly functional, efficient and cooperative fashion, lending credence to the idea that it may be the intelligence factor behind biological processes.
My objective is to read information from biophotons in our nervous system. The first step would involve their detection using very sensitive photomultipliers or EM-CCD cameras which is not available in my institute (IIT Delhi). So this project has been postponed until I get a suitable lab & Scientist who can guide me. I am looking forward to an alternative imaging process called "Biophoton Autography". The next step would require Schottky-gated CdS nanowire nanosensors (or something similar) that can detect photons inside neural pathways.