When the Light Goes Out

In dark laboratories at the University of Calgary, electron-multiplying cameras captured four mice, alive, glowing with the faintest visible light. Each cell emitting photons in a soft radiance barely detectable by the most sensitive instruments science can build.

Then death. The light vanished.

And it did gradually, measurably. The photon emission dropped significantly after the animals were euthanized. What had been radiating life now emitted only darkness. The researchers documented this phenomenon across multiple species. Mice, plant leaves, living tissues. They all lost their inner luminescence at the moment life departed.

But what exactly was this light? What force animated every cell with its subtle radiance, only to withdraw so completely at death? Could it be that these biophotons are what the Yogis called prana?