In 1923, Alexander Gurwitsch set up the strangest experiment in biology.
Two onion roots.
Perpendicular.
The tip of one aimed at the growth zone of the other.
No touching or chemicals. Just air.
The cells on the facing side divided faster.
Then he put quartz glass between them.
Effect passed through.
Then silicon glass.
Effect stopped.
Quartz transmits UV. Silicon blocks it.
The signal was ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT.
Living cells were communicating in UV.
Irving Langmuir, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, put “Mitogenetic radiation” on his official list of pathological science.
Right next to ESP.
The research was dead for 40 years.
Gurwitsch’s daughter, Anna, gets access to a photomultiplier tube, technology her father never had.
She repeats the experiment.
Detects the UV emission directly.
Her father was right.
Fritz Popp finds it next.
DNA stores coherent UV light.
Cancer cells leak it.
300 photons per cm per minute vs 22 in normal tissue.
The whole field of Biophoton research traces back to two onion roots in 1923.
And a man whose name you’ve never heard.