The scientific discovery that changes everything: “It is a fact that living beings glow”

It’s common for people to say to one another, “you have an aura about you.” Researchers have now shown that in reality, that it’s true and all living things give off a glow while they are alive.

A group of scientists at the University of Calgary were able to capture an “eerie glow,” not visible to the naked eye, from a ultraweak photon emission from living creatures that vanishes with death. They presented their findings in the Journal of Physical Chemistry in April.

Glowing personalities

Dr. Daniel Oblak, an associate professor in Physics and Astronomy and one of the authors of the study told the school’s news outlet, that for a long time there have been indications that plants and animals produce ultraweak photon emissions, known as biophotons. The quantum physicist on light detection for quantum communication was made aware of the phenomenon by fellow professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Dr. Christoph Simon, who is also an author on the study.

They hashed out a way that they could observe ultraweak photon emissions without background thermal emissions from body heat and electromagnetic waves naturally in the environment interferring. They were able to capture single visible-wavelength photons using an electron-multiplying charge-coupled device and a charge-coupled device.

“It is a fact that living beings glow. It’s a very weak glow, but it’s there and visible with very sensitive cameras,” Simon explained. “We saw that the level of light that they emit – this biophoton glow – is distinctly different between living and dead animals,” Oblak told UCalgary News.

Detecting glow could be used as a medical diagnostic tool

Oblak feels it is of the upmost importance that they figure out the root of what is happening. “If we can understand how that relates to certain influences on the body – stress, diseases – then that could be used as a diagnostic tool,” for monitoring health.

The researchers observed that in the case of the plant leaves they filmed, when they were put under stress the glow they gave off brightened. While they did euthanize the mice in the experiment, revealing that the phenomenon weakened rapidly in the creatures upon death, they did not apply stress stimuli to see if their bodies responded in the same way as the plants.

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