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Investigations of biophotons revealed a variety of results which are not explainable in terms of ordinary biochemistry or linear biophysics. Let us mention for example the following well-established results:

• Bioluminescent dinoflagellates display synchronous flickering of light emission (similar to the fireflies in mangrove trees in Thailand) [1,2].
• The intensity of "delayed luminescence" of tumor tissue increases in a nonlinear way with increasing cell population density, while that of normal tissue, after having arrived at a definite cell mass, decreases with increasing cell density [3,4].
• Bacteria absorb light from their nutrition media (which originates from oxidative processes) in a way that at a definite density of bacteria the absorbance is highest and may decrease again with increasing numbers of bacteria [5].
• Female inbred daphnia of the same development stage and of about the same size do not display linearly increasing biophoton emission with increasing number. Rather, a typical interference-like pattern of emission is observed which shows maxima and minima of biophoton intensity at definite average distances between the animals under investigation [6,7].
• L. Beloussov reports about sub-additive photon emission of the shell and the interior of eggs which are dependent on the development stage [8].

If ones separates two cultures of dinoflagellates, their bioluminescence flickering is completely unsychronous (left side). As soon as they are in optical contact, a big amount of flickering is synchronous (right side). The stars indicate the synchronous flashes.

Fig.2 Increase of Delayed Luminescence of Tumor Cells with Increasing Cell Density Versus Decrease of Delayed Luminescence of Normal Cells.

With increasing cell density of tumor cells the delayed luminescence increases non-linearly (upper curve). In contrast, healthy cells display decreasing delayed luminescence with increasing cell density (lower curve).

Growing bacteria in culture medium which by oxidative reactions always emit light absorb from a definite density on the light of the medium. For higher densities this absorbance may decrease.

Fig. 4 Interference-like Biophoton Emission from Daphnia in Dependence on the Population Density in Tap Water.

Daphnia display non-linear biophoton emission with increasing population density. The minima and maxima can be assigned to definite mean values of their mutual distances in the population.

This paper concerns the possible mechanisms behind these non-linear interactions between living systems and weak photon emission.
 

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