Nirosha (Narosha/Nirosha) Murugan (guest/researcher)
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Radiolab
The Spark of Life
It's because the intensity of light is so weak.
Radiolab
The Spark of Life
And, you know, it has to come and go through all this tissue to come outside so that we could see it.
Radiolab
The Spark of Life
And so if you take a cell in a dish, any cell in a dish, it will give off light.
Radiolab
The Spark of Life
And we now know very confidently that it's wavelength specific.
Radiolab
The Spark of Life
Different rates of metabolism will induce different wavelengths of light, so in different colors.
Radiolab
The Spark of Life
So the intensity of light is definitely not as bright as some of the aura pictographs that you might see.
Radiolab
The Spark of Life
For us to detect it, we have to have an ultra dark room and use these high sensitive detectors to even detect one photon.
Radiolab
The Spark of Life
The question now is, where exactly is it coming from?