The Liquid Crystalline Organism
The hyperbolic function of stimulated light emission from living organisms and cells takes the general form here Where x is light intensity, A, t0and d are constants, and t is time after light exposure. Thus essentially captures the characteristic that light intensity falls off as a power of time.. mayhaps suggesting the existence of memory in the system Very cool. I usually don’t talk about QED as it relates to biology because it risks sounding super gay like the quantum biologists.
Light is typically emitted when excited atom or molecule which has had an electron elevated to a higher energy level due to a collision with another molecule or absorption of energy relaxes back to lower energy state. This involves the release of a photon. But light emission is not the only outcome when an electron is excited. The electron might instead mayhaps contribute to an electric current.. participate in a chemical reaction or return to ground state by releasing energy in other forms (phonons/heat) rather than emitting light. When light is emitted, the energy of the photon corresponds to the difference between the excited and ground state energy levels, which determines the frequency of the photon (equation shown)
Ee is energy of emitted photon, E1 and E0 are energies of excited and ground states, (respectively), h is Planck's constant, and v (nu) is the frequency of emitted photon Somewhat simplified. In QED electrons and the nucleus are constantly exchanging virtual photons, which are not fully realized photons but are crucial for maintaining the electron's motion within its orbit without continuously emitting electromagnetic radiation..
Nearlyyyyyy all organisms emit light continuously.. ranging from few photons / cell / day to several hundred photons per organism / second. This is biophoton emission. It differs from bioluminescence and typically occurs at intensities several orders of magnitude lower.
Photon emission is closely linked to the cell cycle / other functional states of cells and organisms.. It responds sensitively to various external stimuli / stresses. To use an example, the response to temperature is highly non-linear with a sharp increase in emission rate as temperature rises, followed by oscillations before stabilizing at a steady level. The emitted light spans a pretty broad spectrum (wavelengths from about 250 to 900 nm) with almost uniform distribution of photons across this range (meaning energy levels are nearly equally populated). This btw deviates significantly from Boltzmann distribution typical of systems at thermodynamic equilibrium.. (living systems operate far from thermodynamic equilibrium).
Biophotons can be studied through stimulated emission after brief exposure to ordinary white light or light of various spectral compositions. In every case the stimulated emission decays hyperbolically, rather than exponentially as non-coherent light does. This hyperbolic decay is diagnostic indicator of a coherent ~light field~, which implies that photons within the organism are held in a coherent state and emitted coherently when stimulated.. Kinda like a very weak, multimode laser covering all frequencies.
To go back to the first picture with the equation regarding the hyperbolic function of stimulated light emission from living organisms, the phenomenon of hyperbolic decay can be understood by considering behavior of photons in a system. In non-coherent systems where molecules emit randomly, the energy of emitted photons is lost as heat. In a coherent system part of the emitted energy is reabsorbed, leading to a delayed decay that follows a hyperbolic curve with a long tail. This non-linear decay (which may include oscillations) is uniform across the visible spectrum which indicates that energy input is rapidly shared among all modes (a characteristic of systems that mobilize energy symmetrically).
In living systems.. the parameters of decay kinetics are closely correlated with physiological states which mayhaps suggests that these systems behave as a coherent ~photon field~ far from thermodynamic equilibrium. This field is coherent across a range of frequencies that are coupled.. effectively functioning as a single degree of freedom. This coherence is evident in the uniformity of hyperbolic decay across the optical spectrum and the rapid delocalization of energy input across all frequencies.. distinguishing living systems from solid-state devices. Hyperbolic decay is mayhaps a sufficient condition for identifying coherence in living organisms.
Electromagnetic signals of various frequencies have been recorded near isolated organs / cells / entire organisms. I've followed some pretty cool biophysicists (that can actually solve Schrodinger's equation) (Mae-Wan Ho) for quite some time now who've observed abundant electrical signals from fruit fly embryos (1 to 30 Hz) during their earliest developmental stages, even before cellular formation.
Another interesting observation.. photon emission patterns in normal and malignant cells suggests a link between electromagnetic signals and intercellular communication. Normal cells emit less light as cell density increases.. whereas malignant cells exhibit an exponential rise in light emission with increasing density. This suggests that long-range interactions influence cell behavior. Malignant cells tend to disaggregate while normal cells show attractive interactions. Key difference may lie in their communicative abilities which are tied to their coherence. Going to back that initial equation, in malignant cells, the parameter 1/d in the hyperbolic decay function—indicative of incoherence—rises with cell density, while it decreases in normal cells. Supports the idea that tumor cells have a reduced capacity for intercommunication.
Under a polarized light microscope, living organisms can display brilliant interference colors (typically seen only in static structures like rock or liquid crystals with orderly molecular arrangements). This occurs because the molecules in living tissues and cells (including water molecules) are not only aligned like liquid crystals but also move coherently as a unified system. Since light vibrates much faster than these coherent motions it experiences perfect order at every instant which results in vivid colors.. This is evidence of the sweet ass coherence in living organisms!
The organism is.. fundamentally, liquid crystalline. This is one aspect of the matrix described in the book, Earth & Water. Grounding is one such way the liquid crystalline structure is maintained.
In summary, living organisms exhibit remarkable coherence, demonstrated by phenomena like biophoton emission and hyperbolic decay of stimulated light. This coherence is evident in the liquid crystalline structure of tissues, where molecules, including water, align and move as a unified system. Under polarized light, this structure produces vivid interference colors, highlighting the organism's inherent order. The hyperbolic decay observed in photon emission is a key indicator of this coherence, distinguishing living systems from non-coherent or solid-state ones. This coherence may also play a crucial role in intercellular communication, as seen in the differing photon emission patterns between normal and malignant cells. Ultimately, this suggests that living organisms are fundamentally liquid crystalline, a concept explored in-depth in Earth & Water, with grounding as a method to maintain this coherence.
