biophotonics

[El Ka Bong]

For a Cafe style 'discussion' ..Has anyone studied or heard of Biophotonics..?

http://www.lifescientists.de/history.htm

I wonder if the Human Genome project adds more way we can start to 'use' or apply this phenomenon. .. just musing... DNA/RNA based biophotonic computers..?

[Darkside Heartless]

Thanks for the link, makes for some light reading.

[Mobius]

For a Cafe style 'discussion' ..Has anyone studied or heard of Biophotonics..?

No.

I wonder if the Human Genome project adds more way we can start to 'use' or apply this phenomenon. .. just musing... DNA/RNA based biophotonic computers..?

After reading about it, I highly doubt it.

[El Ka Bong]

...so it's new to you too ... nucleic acids emit photons, just sitting there in our cells.. popping out photons.

And when they describe this phenomenon with these observations:

"The group finds the first time intercellular communication by means of biophotons." ...

... I wonder why I hear about this only now/so lo-pro',... it is true. And really intriguing...

Industrial Biophotonics would be a cool career to choose, seems very cutting-edge stuff after a Google:

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~biophot/

http://www.ino.ca/En/Notre_Offre/Biopho ... nique.aspx

[Lobber]

Cool, maybe thats part of what creates human consciousness... a biophotonic neuron based computer. The only thing that would top that would be the discovery of Qbits in neural networks.

[El Ka Bong]

The brain fart I had while musing about biophotonics was this: use the new science of neuronal stem cells to grow any type of brain cell (we can do this now). In vitro brain cells are not new, but now we can grow any neuron type. Then manipulating these with newly derived abilities from having the Human Genome Project as part of our tool kit, we could who knows, 'reprogram' these in vitro neuronal networks to operate specifically. Biophotonics would likely be another a way of "signaling" to or 'reading' from these customized, in vitro neuonal cells, which are already communicating as nerve cells do.

Then my mind went on wondering if biophotonics and these new technologies will finally enable us to invent that machine from the 1980's movie "Brainstorm" .. a VCR for the mind ... ! Imagine a helment fitted with biophotonic lasers that records your mental images, or plays back someone elses mindscape.. !

Or if we get the right lasers fitted to the right helmet, could we use biophotonic principles coupled with supercomputers to induce those states of mind that reveal the other dimensions of the universe...

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articl ... 9EC5880000

http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/multiverse.pdf