Humans Glow

So all the aura readers were right after all?

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Direct: http://www.livescience.com/health/090722-body-glow.html

I've always kind of figured that the halos around holy figures had to be rooted in something real. Older cultures weren't so big on fictionalizing things. They generally drew or wrote about something real. Maybe they didn't understand it well and made up some myth to explain what it seemed like to them, the way Native Americans (of the northwest) had the idea that the world was a piece of land floating in a bowl of water and an earthquake was when one of the gods pushing down on one end of the land, causing it to dip under the water. This is a fairly accurate representation of the tsunamis that occur after coastal earthquakes. It makes sense from that perspective as an attempt to make a logical model of observed events in the face of incomplete information.

We talk about a bride "glowing" on her wedding day. Perhaps that is not merely hyperbole. Perhaps it is something subtly perceived. And perhaps halos are also something subtly perceived. Saying that makes me think of expressions like "bringer of light" or "a light upon the world".

I bet the military loves that.

I posted this yesterday with the title 'it turns out people glow in the dark'. Then, as now, I objected to the headline, which should have said that humans glow in the visible light spectrum. One could hardly tell this in a lit environment, could one?

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I doubt it. The eye is able to see a single photon. So if humans glowed at all, people should be able to see it.