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    ooli2@lemm.ee to Science@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 month ago

    Living beings emit a faint light that extinguishes upon death, according to a new study

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    Living beings emit a faint light that extinguishes upon death, according to a new study

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    The light of someone's life might not be just another person, but light in the literal sense. According to a recent study by researchers from University of Calgary, every living system emits light without requiring external excitation due to a biological phenomenon known as ultraweak photon emission (UPE).
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      Blackbody radiation starts emitting around 500 C… this is something else I think. In the interest of science though, why don’t we experiment? Let’s heat Elon Musk to 500 C and see what color he glows?

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        Blackbody radiation starts emitting around 500 C…

        blackbody radiation starts emitting visible light around 500 celsius. cooler objects emit at longer wavelengths.

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          good point, thx. maybe we should run the experiment anyway just to be sure

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