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INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE
OF BIOPHYSICS
Biophysical
Aspects of the Psychic Situation (3)
Fritz-Albert Popp
Introduction and
Physical Background (3)
It should be noted that evidence of this "mode coupling" of
biophotons has already been demonstrated, i.e. the same relaxation function
of all modes after exposure of a living system to external light illumination
of different wavelengths (Popp et al., 1992)6.
It is worthwhile to note that processes of this kind do not violate
the second law of thermodynamics. Closed parts of the system under consideration
are further subject to entropy increase, where the field may in part take
lower values by condensation and other parts (to which the external world
belongs) will increase the entropy, e.g. by uptake of higher entropy photons.
In this picture biological systems are squeezed in between the tendency
of increase of entropy in terms of decoupling of modes (individualization,
like cell growth) and coupling (holistic integration, like cell differentiation,
establishing there higher states of organization).
The mechanisms are not yet clear. However, there are a lot of indications
pointing to exciplex formation in the DNA (Li, 1981)7.
We will not go deeper into the details of the models here. But one
has to point out that a final explanation can be given only in terms of
quantum optics. One of the most crucial points is the coherence of biophotons.
This provides the highest possible "visibility" as well as optimal properties
for communication and information. Actually, we already showed evidence
of an almost perfect quantum coherence of biophotons by demonstrating three
properties, where two are necessary, one sufficient, and all together are
sufficient conditions for quantum coherence of the biophoton field.The
first is the significant deviation from thermal equilibrium (see Fig.3),
and the second one is the Poissonian distribution of the photocount statistics.
If one counts the numbers of biophotons which are emitted during a preset
time intervall Dt, one gets a time series of
count numbers. Ordering these measurement values in terms of the frequency
of registering 0,1,2,.., n photons, one gets the probability distribution
p(n, Dt) for measuring n = 0,1,2,.... photons
in the fixed and preset measuring time interval Dt
during the measurement time 0 up to t, where Dt
<< t. For a fully coherent field, p(n,Dt)
follows a Poissonian distribution. All the biophoton researchers agree
now that biophoton emission is actually subject to Poissonian photocount
statistics (Chang et al., 1998)4. However, this is a sufficient
condition of coherence only for Dt £
t, where t is the coherence time of biophotons.
Consequently, we need further proof, since t
is not known at present. This proof has been performed (Popp and Li, 1993)8
by showing evidence that the relaxation function of "delayed luminescence"
of biophotons follows an hyperbolic (1/t) rather than an exponential exp
(-ßt) law, where t is the time after exposure of the living system
to an external light illumination and ß represents the decay constant
(Fig. 5).
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Fig.5:
Instead of an exponential relaxation (dotted line), biological systems
always display an hyperbolic relaxation to the „delayed luminescence„.
This is in the case of an ergodic system (which is subject to a Poissonian
distribution of the photocount statistics) a proof for perfect coherence
of the biophoton field. This curve shows the „delayed luminescence„ of
a leaf at a definite wavelength. |
It should be noted that these features of biophotons characterizes animated
matter as a subject of coherent states where every part is connected to
every other part, constituting in this way an integrative, holistic system.
Fig. 6 displays a striking example of this kind of regulation (Popp, 1979)9.
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Fig.6:
Mitotic figures are controlled by the coherent field of cavity resonator
modes which are stabilized under the boundary conditions of the interacting
matter. In this way biological systems are governed by the coherent feedback
coupling of the biophoton field and matter. Mitotic figures show evidence
of holistic regulation. |
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