[extropy-chat] Biophotons And The Universal Light Code

[gts]

On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 05:28:05 -0500, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:

> Pseudo-science. Claims that zero point energy and quantum fluctuations
> cause all the psychic nonsense that you want to believe.

Seems reasonable, but what about the existence of biophotons separate from  
those far-out claims?

They make less extraordinary claims also, for example:

"This light emission is an expression of the functional state of the  
living organism and its measurement therefore can be used to assess this  
state. Cancer cells and healthy cells of the same type, for instance, can  
be discriminated by typical differences in biophoton emission.  After an  
initial decade and a half of basic research on this discovery,  
biophysicists of various European and Asian countries are now exploring  
the many interesting applications which range across such diverse fields  
as cancer research, non-invasive early medical diagnosis, food and water  
quality testing, chemical and electromagnetic contamination testing, cell  
communication, and various applications in biotechnology."

http://soundingcircle.com/newslog2.php/__show_article/_a000195-000583.htm

If biophotons are real then I wonder why the US is not studying them. But  
are they real?

-gts