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ooli2@lemm.ee to Science@hexbear.netEnglish · 9 个月前

Living beings emit a faint light that extinguishes upon death, according to a new study

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Living beings emit a faint light that extinguishes upon death, according to a new study

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The light of someone's life might not be just another person, but light in the literal sense. According to a recent study by researchers from University of Calgary, every living system emits light without requiring external excitation due to a biological phenomenon known as ultraweak photon emission (UPE).
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  • joaomarrom [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    well then, science, how do you explain this?

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    Luminous beings are we!

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    srry bro thats just all the RGB lighting i had installed in my gaming spleen

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      It’s just inefficiencies in your cells’ processing of energy being released as light.

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        Yeah, isn’t it basically blackbody radiation? We’re warm so we glow

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          Blackbody radiation starts emitting around 500 C… this is something else I think. In the interest of science though, why don’t we experiment? Let’s heat Elon Musk to 500 C and see what color he glows?

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            Blackbody radiation starts emitting around 500 C…

            blackbody radiation starts emitting visible light around 500 celsius. cooler objects emit at longer wavelengths.

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              good point, thx. maybe we should run the experiment anyway just to be sure

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                stalin-approval

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          Living things emitting Infrared radiation? Never heard of it.

          Though I want to say singlet oxygen reactions let off light in the red part of the spectrum.

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          No, because the control was a non-living body at the same temperature, and blackbody radiation is a function of temperature alone.

          The results revealed that despite both groups having the same body temperature of 37°C, the live mice showed robust emissions, whereas the UPE from the euthanized mice was nearly extinguished.

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        My cells are pretty efficient, I think it’s safe to say it’s my soul glowing

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    If only I could be so grossly incandescent

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    spoopy

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    Is this actually a new finding? I’ve heard this as a fun fact probably ~15 years ago

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    “If we can light up a gymnasium, we can light up a nation.” - 1st Dronelord Mayo Pete, “Kinsey Report 2B∆: Deathlight’s Harvest, Solving Populism”

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    Gwisin confirmed

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