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Some People Are Brighter Than Others

We broached the subject of human bioluminescence in SF#59 and Biological Anomalies: Humans I, where the major evidence was anecdotal in nature. It is now evident that we have missed an important corpus of laboratory results, in which the spectra and intensity of human radiation has been measured. For example, consider the following abstract:

"In measuring the output of light from the human skin, we estimated the total photon rates to be of the order of 170-600 photons/s/cm2 , depending on anatomical location. The light was strongest at the red end of the spectrum, but fell below detectable levels in the ultraviolet. Significant variations were observed between individuals in both photon rate and spectral profile. The photon rate also varied significantly with time for a single individual."

It is important to recognize that, although the flux of photons emitted by individual cells is very low, it greatly exceeded the flux of blackbody radiation at 37�C (about 10-9 photon/s/cm2).

Measure of human bioluminescence
Photon count for one subject.
Experiments demonstrate that human bioluminescence originates mainly in body tissue, particularly skin cells, and not from skin bacteria or the blood. The authors of the present paper believe that the radiation comes from the "oxidation production of radicals."

(Edwards, R., et al; "Measurements of Human Bioluminescence," International Journal of Acupuncture & Electro-Theraputics Research, 15:85, 1990. Cr. M. Bischof.)

Comment. Recall that mitogenetic radiation from cells, long derided by the scientific establishment, has now been detected. See SF#73.

Look again at the rather obscure reference! If we only had time to search all of the scientific literature.

The book mentioned above: Biological Anomalies: Humans I, is described here.

From Science Frontiers #91, JAN-FEB 1994. � 1994-2000 William R. Corliss