Molly Webster (host)

What does it mean?

What does it mean?

Hmm.

Coming up, Narosha tries to find out what the light inside our bodies might be doing.

Like, what are those little photons up to?

The cellular fireworks continue after the break.

Hey, I'm Molly Webster.

We are back.

We're stepping into a world of questions.

And one of the first ones Narosha wants to tackle is how what seems like a cellular firework show might actually be more like a laser or something.

Like if there's a purpose to the light and it's directed, it's a sentinel of information, like, I don't know, isn't it a photon?

Don't they just flow through things when it just like flows?

So every cell is filled with individual little tubules.

that are help giving it its shape, little rods.

And your question was, do those things suck up some of the light?

There's a little tram system that's inside the cell.

Okay, but do you have any proof thus far that that light is not just being cast off like fireworks into the cellular night, that it is actually being moved from an A to a B?

So when there's activity in the brain, there's light in the brain.

That's correct.

I mean, do you have any hypotheses of like what information light might be carrying inside the brain?