Recent Advances In Biophoton Research And Its Applications

Fritz Albert Popp, Q Gu, K H Li

• Editore: World Scientific
• Anno: 1992
• ISBN:
  9789814439671
• Argomento: Biological Sciences
• Categoria: Biophysics

Biophoton emission now belongs to a topical field of modern science: It concerns a weak light emision from biological systems. Such molecular events are clearly compatible with collective phenomena as shown by recent developments in the life sciences such as the chaos theory. This book is concerned with the "optical window" of biological interactions and in view of their correlations to many biological functions they provide a powerful, non-invasive tool of analysing biological systems. Topics include food science, pollution, efficacy of drugs including the treatment of cancer and immune diseases, and communication phenomena such as consciousness.The collection of articles in this book covers the historical background, the physics of biophoton emission, those biological phenomena which show evidence of a "holistic" character, and finally discusses applications and biological evolution. This volume serves to bring researchers up-to-date on the subject and draws attention to the many exciting findings that are widely scattered in the scientific literature.

Indice dei contenuti

• Contents
• Preface: Introductory Remarks
• References
• Authors' Addresses
• Chapter 1 Some Essential Questions of Biophoton Research and Probable Answers
• Chapter 2 Hyperbolic Relaxation as a Sufficient Condition of a Fully Coherent Ergodic Field
• Chapter 3 Quantum Theory of Biophoton Emission
• Chapter 4 Coherence in Physics and Biology
• Chapter 5 Coherent Radiation from DNA Molecules
• Chapter 6 Technical Notes to Biophoton Emission
• Chapter 7 Spontaneous and Light-Induced Photon Emission by Rat Hepatocytes and by Hepatoma Cells
• Chapter 8 Biophoton Re-emission Studies in Carcinogenic Mouse Melanoma Cells
• Chapter 9 Ultraweak Photon Emission from Synchronized Yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) as a Function of the Cell Division Cycle
• Chapter 10 Ultraweak Luminescence Studies of Microsporogenesis in Larch
• Chapter 11 Light Emission and Rescattering in Synchronously Developing Populations of Early Drosophila Embryos:
• Chapter 12 Experimental Evidence on Ultraweak Photon Emission from Normal and Tumour Human Tissues
• Chapter 13 Time Behaviour of Delayed Luminescence in Acetabularia Acetabulum
• Chapter 14 Population Density-dependence of Biophoton Emission from Daphnia
• Chapter 15 Some Remarks on Biological Consequences of a Coherent Biophoton Field
• Chapter 16 Non-linear Optical Properties of Delayed Luminescence from Cress Seeds
• Chapter 17 Biophoton Measurement as a Supplement to the Conventional Consideration of Food Quality
• Chapter 18 Biophoton Emission as an Indicator of " Biological Quality"
• Chapter 19 Coherence and Some Quantum Paradoxes
• Chapter 20 Bioluminescence as a Signature for Dark Matter Reactions
• Chapter 21 Evolution as the Expansion of Coherent States
• Chapter 22 Mitogenetic Radiation as an Evidence of Nonequilibrium Properties of Living Matter
• Chapter 23 Can the Vitalistic Entelechia Principle be a Working Instrument?
• Index