Biophotons: A Hard Problem
arxiv(2024)
摘要
About a hundred years ago the Russian biologist A. Gurwitsch, based on his
experiments with onion plants by measuring their growth rate, made the
hypothesis that plants emitted a weak electromagnetic field which somehow
influenced cell growth. This interesting observation remained fundamentally
ignored by the scientific community and only in the 1950s the electromagnetic
emission from some plants was measured using a photomultiplier used in single
counting mode. Later, in the 80s several groups in the world started some
extensive work to understand the origin and role of this ultra-weak emission,
hereby called biophotons, coming from living organisms. Biophotons are an
endogenous very small production of photons in the visible energy range in and
from cells and organism, and this emission is characteristic of alive
organisms. Today there is no doubt that biophotons really exist, this emission
has in fact been measured by many groups and on many different living
organisms, from humans to bacteria. On the contrary, the origin of biophotons
and whether organisms use them in some way to exchange information is not yet
well known; no model proposed since now is really capable of reproducing and
interpreting the great variety of experimental data coming from the many
different living systems measured so far. In this brief review we present our
experimental work on biophotons coming from germinating seeds, the main
experimental results and some methods we are using to analyze the data in order
to open the door for interpretative models of this phenomenon and clarifying
its function in the regulation and communication between cells and living
organisms. We also discuss some ideas on how to increase the signal-to-noise
ratio of the measured signal to have new experimental possibilities that allow
the measurement and the characterization of currently unmeasurable quantities.
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