Tabula Rasa Posted July 23, 2009 Share Posted July 23, 2009 From Live Science: Strange! Humans Glow in Visible LightBy Charles Q. Choi, Special to LiveScience 22 July 2009 09:10 am ET The human body literally glows, emitting a visible light in extremely small quantities at levels that rise and fall with the day, scientists now reveal. Past research has shown that the body emits visible light, 1,000 times less intense than the levels to which our naked eyes are sensitive. In fact, virtually all living creatures emit very weak light, which is thought to be a byproduct of biochemical reactions involving free radicals. (This visible light differs from the infrared radiation — an invisible form of light — that comes from body heat.) To learn more about this faint visible light, scientists in Japan employed extraordinarily sensitive cameras capable of detecting single photons. Five healthy male volunteers in their 20s were placed bare-chested in front of the cameras in complete darkness in light-tight rooms for 20 minutes every three hours from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. for three days. The researchers found the body glow rose and fell over the day, with its lowest point at 10 a.m. and its peak at 4 p.m., dropping gradually after that. These findings suggest there is light emission linked to our body clocks, most likely due to how our metabolic rhythms fluctuate over the course of the day. Faces glowed more than the rest of the body. This might be because faces are more tanned than the rest of the body, since they get more exposure to sunlight — the pigment behind skin color, melanin, has fluorescent components that could enhance the body's miniscule light production. Since this faint light is linked with the body's metabolism, this finding suggests cameras that can spot the weak emissions could help spot medical conditions, said researcher Hitoshi Okamura, a circadian biologist at Kyoto University in Japan. "If you can see the glimmer from the body's surface, you could see the whole body condition," said researcher Masaki Kobayashi, a biomedical photonics specialist at the Tohoku Institute of Technology in Sendai, Japan. The scientists detailed their findings online July 16 in the journal PLoS ONE The scientists detailed their findings online July 16 in the journal PLoS ONE. [/i] Here's the link to the original article which has some photography of the phenomenon:Strange! Humans glow in visibile light. Maybe I'm just a dweeb,but I'm getting a big kick out of this, not so much for the possible health diagnostic applications, but because I like too much anime and science fiction. I mean really, how many times have we seen a character start glowing with power ,or throw blasts of light? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ouroboros Posted July 23, 2009 Share Posted July 23, 2009 It is cool! Definitely. You had me at Halo. Perhaps the glowing halo thing from the past is caused by some people just being more healthy and some people being able to see the glow? I'm speculating here, but if metabolism is part of this, perhaps certain diets (vegetarian maybe) just have caused Buddha, and maybe Jesus (if he came from John the Baptist's sect who were vegetarians), and had halos because of that!? And including other "prophets" in history. Or just the idea that some spiritual teachers with strict diets had halos, so it became a "sign" of anyone who was considered holy? Speculations, but yet, not totally impossible. Anyone who now can come up with a "Halo Diet" cookbook and program can make some good money! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest end3 Posted July 23, 2009 Share Posted July 23, 2009 And you people thought my "Moses Glowing Face" thread was wacked.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ouroboros Posted July 23, 2009 Share Posted July 23, 2009 End3, You mean this one: http://www.ex-christian.net/index.php?showtopic=18707&view=findpost&p=306172? I haven't checked, but I'm not sure that I tore down the idea of emitting light, but the issue was rather if emitting light was some evidence for Moses to have been real. A quick glance and I see that I mention Mithras, which also had a halo, which would mean that Mithras existed because it's possible to emit light. So I'm not sure if the "whackyness" of your "Moses glowing face" was about the glowing, but rather that it was about Moses existing and glowing as some kind of confirmation of his existence. But I admit, if I claimed (but I don't think I did) you were whacky for talking about glowing faces, then I take it back and give you right. M'kay? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest end3 Posted July 23, 2009 Share Posted July 23, 2009 End3, You mean this one: http://www.ex-christian.net/index.php?showtopic=18707&view=findpost&p=306172? I haven't checked, but I'm not sure that I tore down the idea of emitting light, but the issue was rather if emitting light was some evidence for Moses to have been real. A quick glance and I see that I mention Mithras, which also had a halo, which would mean that Mithras existed because it's possible to emit light. So I'm not sure if the "whackyness" of your "Moses glowing face" was about the glowing, but rather that it was about Moses existing and glowing as some kind of confirmation of his existence. But I admit, if I claimed (but I don't think I did) you were whacky for talking about glowing faces, then I take it back and give you right. M'kay? I always knew you were a good man Hans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ouroboros Posted July 23, 2009 Share Posted July 23, 2009 I always knew you were a good man Hans. That would be more than I know... You're a good person too, End3, even if we have our differences. (We don't have a halo-smiley in the list, so I went for the second best.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Davka Posted July 23, 2009 Share Posted July 23, 2009 Wow - all those flakey west-coast types rambling on about auras were right? dammit, another group falls off the "point-and-laugh" list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwc Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 Uh, yeah. Even the cameras need the subject in a totally, absolutely, dark room since the amount of light be produced is so low that pretty much any other light would drown it out. I've no doubt in my mind that no matter what you eat or what you do (where you sit) you will not be able to make this light so bright that anyone would ever notice (unless you're in a mine deep under ground with no lights and even then I'm going to bet against it). On the surface of the planet there's no chance of anyone seeing anything (except in the setup they've got). Halos were sun-rays. Auras are either crap (I'd say most claimants are here) or people with crossed-wires that can really "see" sounds and odors and things like that. Not the nifty images that made the magazines (quite) awhile back that look like mood rings or whatever. That said I await both the scientific and the pseudo-scientific applications of this...whatever they may be. mwc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Moderator florduh Posted July 24, 2009 Super Moderator Share Posted July 24, 2009 I know it's true because the reptilians can't produce halos. That's the only way we can tell them apart from humans. When you run across this conspiracy factoid on the webs, remember that I thought of it first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OpheliaGinger Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 So, auras are real. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skankboy Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 So, auras are real. Not really. As mentioned above, the about of light is about 1000 times less than can be percieved by the human eye. If someone is emitting enough light to actually be seen by the process, their metabolism would be so high they would burn out in about 2 seconds. Still, it's pretty neat... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bird28 Posted July 27, 2009 Share Posted July 27, 2009 I used to explore the idea of auras not long ago. This makes sense though, I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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