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BIOLUMINE SCENCE: LIGHT AND LIFEThroughour he world, light is synonymous ith healing and energv. n

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Q.ito"s 9ies.emany eligiousradirions, ivinepower s dentiiedwirh a primal ight.Godcreatedight before ,4re reatedhe sun, he moon,and rherestof the world.Scientilicall)',iehr seemso defy igical explanarion. ishr travetsara con-stantvelociryof 186,000milespersecond. he unir of tight, calleda pho,ton, has no rerting mass,making ir, like qi, more of a function than asubstance.et t isa tunctionrhat hasdramatic,measurable{fects nd rses.sential tr life. The energ]ofphorons s rransmitiedn whole units(qranra),not dirninishing s r travelsany distance. nd time irselfmustbe rrelevantfor light,since, ccordingo Einstcin's heoryofRelariviry, ime stops r thespeed f light. The greatphysicisrMax Plancksaidrhat light behaves ithintellieence, iways eaching ts rargeralong rhe path that takes he leastpossibleime. This is known in science srhepdncrpL / ldsr 'don,a con,.enr with interesting arallelso the Chinese ottunof rur uei, effonless, f-

Light seems o ntelligeirt,and so ar bevond he ordinary awsofspace,time,and matter that scientist ndphil{)sopher rthur Youngbelieveshat"it is rhe basis or freewill and s the ongoingdynamicwhich drives he um-verse."'rSince rnattercan be considered condensation f photons,andchanges r transformation f maftera resultof lighfs interacrionwith atomsand molecuies, oung dentifiesight with the credtivepolverof rhe diline,what philosophen all "FirstCause."Livins systemsiterallyglow.AIt living cellsemit units of lighr, biopturtons.Scientists avebeenstudyinghis phenomenon f bioluminescenceor"dark uminescenc,"ince he ight emrssionsvery weak)since t $as frrsrreportedby AlexanderGun'ich in 1959." Mae-Y/anHo of the Bioelectro-dynamics -rboratory, he Open University (UK), explains he biophotonemission uccinctly:

Light is generally mifted rom an ercitedatom or molecule,whenan electron n the outemostshell,havingbeenpromoredo an ex-cited energy evelby, say,a collisionwith another nolecule r ab-sorptionof energyby orher means, alls back nto a towerenergylevel.Light emission oesnor alwaysoccur,however.The excitedelectroncan o{tenstarr o move, husbecoming n electriccurrenr,or it canbe nvolved n a chemical caction. . .lr is alsopossibie or the electron ro emit sound or heat as it fallsback to the groundstate.Such microscopic xcirarionsand energl emis-sions are happening all of the time as a result of normal metabolicproccsses.t is also ikely that biophoronsare emirted rom an organi?ed,

"coherenC'n scientific terms,electromagireticieid that pervadesiving

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54 Ite war ofQ;loirtissue.Biophobn researcher i FntrAlbert Popp dcnti{ies his ficld withrhe "morphogenericield," the field createdby the formsofother members

The behavior f light seemso scientifically onoborate mysrical ruth,that light is a characteristic f life. And I cannothelp speculating bout heconnectrrnbetween n,photons nd the widelyheld beliefthat humanbod-ieshavean aura.Could some ndividuals avean unusralsensitiviryo darkluminescence?r are heypickingut informatbn kinestheticalLynd nter-lrting.hisasvaryingdegreesflightlBiophoron emissioncan be a sourceoi important information aboutan organismt sratus.When muscles r nervesare activated, he intensityc'f biophoton mission ncreases.Biophoton emissionshave also beenmcasurcd adiating from the internal organs.The characreristics f pho'ron emission ndicate }'e health ofcells anclwhether hey aremutriplyingor dying. Accor.ling to researchersrom rhe University of Catanir:Institureof Physics,Catania, taly, "l t is tossibLeo discriminatebetweentumour and normaltissues y measuringheir spontaneous