By Team Aakash Byju's

 in Visible Light?

Do You Know 

Humans Glow 

The human body glows by emitting a visible light in extremely small quantities at levels that rise and fall with the day.

All living organisms, including humans, produce and eliminate some degree of light and hence glow. But it is not easy to detect the light.

Bioluminescence

The visible light emitted from the heat of our body is 1,000 times less intense than the level to which the named human eyes can perceive the light.

Why can’t we see it?

The reason behind the glow is not the infrared radiation, but it is because of the photons in the visible light.

Cause of Glow

The Science Behind the Glow

The photons that make it glow are emitted by the highly active radicals that are produced through respiration.

This is the reason why we glow more during the day as we burn more energy during the day.

More Glow

Japan’s scientists chose 5 healthy men and put them in a dark room for 3 days bare-chested for 20 minutes every 3 hours from 10 am to 10 pm.

Japanese Experiment

They kept extremely sensitive cameras to capture every single photon released from the body.

From their experiment, it is concluded that though our body glows throughout the day, it is lowest at 10 am and it is at its peak at 4 pm.

Lowest & Peak Lights

Due to more exposure to sunlight, the melanin on the face’s skin enhances light production due to its fluorescent components.

Face Glows More

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