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On the Coherence of Ultraweak Photonemission from Living Tissues

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Disequilibrium and Self-Organisation

Part of the book series: Mathematics and Its Applications ((MAIA,volume 30))

Abstract

At present it is generally accepted that all living systems exhibit a very weak photonemission of a few up to some hundred photons per second and square centimeter of surface area, ranging at least from ultraviolet to infrared. At a first view it appears likely that this “low-level luminescence” corresponds to a chaotic, spontaneous chemiluminescence. However, its temperature dependence and the manifold correlations to physiological and biological functions, as, for instance, radical reactivity, oxygen consumption, stress, cell proliferation and differentiation, biological rhythms, even DNA conformations, point to a regulatory activity of these “biological” photons (“biophotons”).

Moreover, a careful analysis of the decay behaviour of photonemission after exposure of the living tissue to external light-illumination indicates that “low level luminescence” orginates from an electromagnetic field with a surprisingly high degree of coherence, as compared to that of technical fields (laser). The basis of this conclusion, namely the results of photo count statistics as well as the relaxation dynamics within the framework of unstable quantum systems under ergodic conditions, is extensively discussed in this paper.

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Popp, FA. (1986). On the Coherence of Ultraweak Photonemission from Living Tissues. In: Kilmister, C.W. (eds) Disequilibrium and Self-Organisation. Mathematics and Its Applications, vol 30. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4718-4_16

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