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All humans emit subtle light until they die, study suggests - C C - May 23, 2025
https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/all-living-things-faintly-glow-ultraweak-photon-emission-upe
INTRO: You, along with all living things, produce subtle, ethereal, semi-visible light that glows until you die, according to a recent study. You would be forgiven for jumping to the conclusion that this spooky luminescence is evidence that auras exist, or something similar.
But Dr Daniel Oblak, physicist at the University of Calgary and last author of the study, told BBC Science Focus that, while auras are a metaphysical, spiritual, unscientific idea, this light is not. Instead, it's called ultraweak photon emission (UPE) and is a natural product of your metabolism.
“I normally point out that UPE is a result of a biochemical process and in that sense is related to what happens in a glow-stick, which no one suspects of having an aura,” he said. “UPE is so weak that it is not visible to the human eye and completely overwhelmed by other sources of light, unless you are in a completely dark room.”
That's not to say that shutting your curtains and turning off your lights will allow you to see your own glow. This light is between 1,000 and 1,000,000 times dimmer than the human eye can perceive... (MORE - details)
RE: All humans emit subtle light until they die, study suggests - Zinjanthropos - May 23, 2025
Quote:But Dr Daniel Oblak, physicist at the University of Calgary and last author of the study, told BBC Science Focus that, while auras are a metaphysical, spiritual, unscientific idea, this light is not. Instead, it's called ultraweak photon emission (UPE) and is a natural product of your metabolism.
CC, I could swear you’ve been looking at the most recent ghost thread posts in Weird & Beyond. lol
Can’t seem to open the links provided. Is there a mention of any animals, insects or other life forms that can see our glow? Do all creatures emit this glow or have a glow of their own?
RE: All humans emit subtle light until they die, study suggests - C C - May 23, 2025
(May 23, 2025 06:24 PM)Zinjanthropos Wrote:Quote:But Dr Daniel Oblak, physicist at the University of Calgary and last author of the study, told BBC Science Focus that, while auras are a metaphysical, spiritual, unscientific idea, this light is not. Instead, it's called ultraweak photon emission (UPE) and is a natural product of your metabolism.
CC, I could swear you’ve been looking at the most recent ghost thread posts in Weird & Beyond. lol
Can’t seem to open the links provided.
Wow -- the BBC is blocking Canadians from a report about a study outputted by a Canadian institution, but not Americans? Sheesh. What kind of back-door dealings have Trump and Starmer been up to?
Science Alert covered it earlier this month, too: https://www.sciencealert.com/we-emit-a-visible-light-that-vanishes-when-we-die-says-surprising-new-study
Quote:Is there a mention of any animals, insects or other life forms that can see our glow? Do all creatures emit this glow or have a glow of their own?
Even plants exhibit such, apparently:
"Using specialist cameras, they observed much more UPE being emitted by the living mice, compared to their dead bodies. Meanwhile, the leaves gave off much more light where they had been damaged, compared to unscratched areas."
A complete or accessible version of the research paper is here (PDF): https://emmind.net/openpapers_repos/Endogenous_Fields-Mind/Endo._Biophotons/Biophotons_Various/2024_Imaging_Ultraweak_Photon_Emission_from_Living_and_Dead_Mice_and_from_Plants_under_Stress.pdf