Nirosha (Narosha/Nirosha) Murugan (guest/researcher)

And like things hop on and off.

Okay.

Exactly.

They're called kinesins and dinesins, but...

I'm going to stick with tram.

Sure.

But so, you know, if the mitochondria are in close proximity to these railway tracks or these microtubules, the light that's being emitted could be absorbed by that microtubule and be propagated down that track.

Like a fiber optic cable.

Huh.

And so what we're testing right now is a series of experiments to see if the microtubule is that biological fiber optic cable.

We are working on that currently right now, but we do have strong evidence to show that the light that's being generated from neural cells, your brain cells, they are not random, that they are tied to purposeful activity of those neurons.

Well, it's the same kind of question we can, what kind of information does electricity carry?

I don't know, Roshan.

I just ask the questions.

I'm not... No, no.

But the information in this case is that the fact that, you know, maybe the wavelength, the oscillations of these light, the fact that they could carry biological information itself would be meaningful because if you look into your brain, between your two brain cells or, you know, things that carry information from one part of your brain to the other, we call that the white matter or the axons.

The white matter we're starting to see can carry photons.

So maybe each of those bundles of nerves act like a fiber optic cable.

And the same fiber optic cable that we see in telecommunication, they carry pulses of light that we use to carry information.

Why can't our brain do that?