LIGHTS WITHIN
Feb 25, 2021
3 minutes
SCIENTISTS HAVE KNOWN for several decades that living cells of plants and animals emit low-level bursts of light that they call biophotons—a photon being a particle of light and a biophoton being a particle of light emitted by something biological, like a cell.
When I think about this, it’s pure visual poetry. Imagine points of light flickering on the surface of an ocean of cytoplasm deep within the tissues of a living plant or animal. It’s dark there, and against
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