Ultraweak Electromagnetic Wavelength Radiation as Biophotonic Signals to Regulate Life Processes

Photons participate in most atomic and molecular interactions and changes in life regulation processes. In this respect, the development of photomultiplier tubes (PMT’s) in the early fifties of the last century was a key event in order to detect photons in biological tissue as reported by Colli et al. [1]. This practical discovery of light emission in cells by a highly sophisticated physical method was based on the theoretical finding of Einstein in 1905, the so-called photoelectric effect. For this breakthrough, Einstein received the Nobel Prize in Physics for the year 1921. The discovery of ultraweak photon emission by a physical device confirmed the so-called mitogenetic radiation determined by onion roots as biological detectors from the Russian biologist Alexander Gurwitsch as I reviewed 22 years ago [2]. The discovery measured latter on by PMT, that plant cells emit a low level radiation, was a coincidence. In the early nineteen fifties, PMT’s were the breakthrough analytical technique in Physics, in order to detect single photons as side products of nuclear collisions. They allowed in the late fifties of the last century to provide evidence for the immense zoo of subatomic particles in modern physics. Colli as physical scientific researcher tried to test this new, highly sensitive device. At this time, Colli’s wife bought some fresh vegetables on the street market and visited the physical laboratory of his husband, thereafter. She placed her shopping bag with the fresh bought plants in it, beside the new PMT. Shortly after this event, Colli checked his new device and realized an unexplained counting rate of the PMT. He concluded that the PMT was defect and returned it immediately to the factory in order to receive shortly after a new apparatus on guarantee. He tested then the substituted PMT again with fresh vegetables. To his surprise, the new, replaced PMT was again showing ultraweak photons (Emilio del Giudice, personal communication on Summer School 2010 in Neuss (Germany)). Therefore, Colli and his co-workers performed experiments with plant cells and published thereafter the observation of ultraweak photon emission in plants as mentioned *Corresponding author: Hugo J. Niggli, BioFoton AG, Rte. D‘Essert 27, CH-1733 Treyvaux, Switzerland, Tel: +410-79-267-16 15; E-mail:[email protected]