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Introduction and Physical Background Biological Impacts and Consciousness Research

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Biological Impacts and Consciousness Research

From the biophysical point of view biophotons are regulating the body in its rather complex functions. The interference pattern of biophotons originating from the resonance tuning between the coherent field and biological matter (preferentially DNA) governs the availability of energy in a concerted action of the whole. Consequently, the organizational capacity is reflected by characteristics of biophoton emission.  Actually, Fig. 7 displays the photon flux from germinating seeds (Popp, 1998a). The essential feature is the oscillatory fluctuation around values that correlate2 significantly with the growth rate. A mathematical analysis reveals the quadratic dependence of the emission on the number of photons as well as on the cell number. This means that the organization in living systems is not based on "nearest neighbour interactions" as, for instance, in solids, but on the rule that every part is connected to every other part. Fluctuations around this law can be most seriously interpreted in terms of the entropy fluctuations seen in Fig. 4. They have regulatory activity as well.
Fig. 7: The biophoton emission of germinating seeds (left side) correlates to the growth rate (right side). However, the fluctuations in biphoton emission show the more sensitive regulatory activity of biophotons, reflecting changes in the entropy, while the growth rate as a consequence of the biophoton field is more smoothed out.
Striking examples of this principle are the biophoton emission of daphnia (Galle et al. 1991)10 (Fig.8) and the "delayed luminescence" of tumor cells compared to that of normal cells (Schamhart and van Wijk, 1987)11 (Fig.9).
Fig. 8:  The biophoton emission of daphnia depends on the mean distance between the animals. Dependent on the number of daphnia in a cuvette the biophoton emission shows minima and maxima which can be traced back to the capacity of the biophoton field for displaying destructive interference in the extracellular space and constructive interference within the cells.
Fig.9: The delayed luminescence of normal cells (lower curve) follows qualitatively different dependences on the cell density than that of tumor cells (upper curve). While normal cells show induced absorption of photons, tumor cells are subjects of induced emission.
These rules do hold not only for cell populations and organisms, but also for organs within a body and even for the development of consciousness.  In order to show the link, let us start with a rather simple example. It is well known that the basic nutrition of living systems is light. Actually, plants take it up directly from the sun, while mammals absorb it by metabolic degradation of sugar that contains sunlight in the form of the binding energy of H2O and CO2. Sugar is digested into water and carbon dioxide which both are excreted by breathing, respiration, sweating and urinating, while the stored sun energy becomes available for activation of biological functions. From the physical point of view this activity corresponds to a photon store which can always be characterized by its so-called resonator value Q. Q is defined as the ratio of stored energy U to lacking energy i (Q=U/i). The higher the Q-value is, the higher is its storage capacity. The essential point is that Q describes as well the potential information which can be transferred by the stored electromagnetic energy. The higher the Q-value, the higher the potential information of the system under consideration.

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