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Scott Aaronson, University of Waterloo
Fred Adams, University of Michigan
Anthony Aguirre, UC Santa Cruz
Stephon Alexander, Pennsylvania State University, National Geographic Emerging Explorer
Markus Aspelmeyer, IQOQI
Paul A. Benioff, Argonne National Laboratory
Caslav Brukner, Vienna University
Dmitry Budker, UC Berkeley
Gregory Chaitin, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Hyung Choi, Innovative Research & Programs
Graham P. Collins, Scientific American
Louis Crane, Kansas State University
Paul Davies, Arizona State University
Pauline Davies, Arizona State University
Wade Davis, National Geographic Society
John Donoghue, University of Massachusetts
Olaf Dreyer, Imperial College
Richard Easther, Yale University
David Ritz Finkelstein, Georgia Tech, Emeritus
Rodolfo Gambini, University of the Republic, Uruguay
Jaume Garriga, Universitat de Barcelona
Peter Getzels, Grace Creek Media
Steven Gratton, Cambridge University
Alan Guth, MIT
Lucien Hardy, Perimeter Institute
Charles Harper, John Templeton Foundation
Amanda High, National Philanthropic Trust
Valerie Jamieson, New Scientist
Adrian Kent, Cambridge University
Lawrence Krauss, Case Western Reserve University
Brian Krist, Grace Creek Media
Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Kuhn Foundation
Matthew Leifer, Perimeter Institute
Christopher Liedel, National Geographic Society
Eugene Lim, Yale University
A. Garrett Lisi, Fractured Atlas
Abraham Loeb, Harvard University
Fotini Markopoulou, Perimeter Institute
Laura Mersini, University of North Carolina
Farzad Nekoogar, Multiversal Journeys
Ken Olum, Tufts University
Maulik Parikh, Columbia University
Philip Pearle, Hamilton
Ekkehard Peik, PTB
Anusha Pokhriyal, FQXi
Simon Saunders, Oxford University
Janice Schoos, Changing Our World/Archimede
Robert Spekkens, Cambridge University
Max Tegmark, MIT
Jeffrey Tollaksen, George Mason University
Mark Trodden, Syracuse University
Roderich Tumulka, Eberhard-Karls-Universitaet
Jos Uffink, Universiteit Utrecht
Vitaly Vanchurin, Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics
Xiao-Gang Wen, MIT
Frank Wilczek, MIT
Serge Winitzki, Ludwig-Maximilians University
Toby Wiseman, Imperial College
Anton Zeilinger, University of Vienna
Wojciech Zurek, Los Alamos National Laboratory
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PressRelease: Shining a light on the roots of plant “intelligence”
All living organisms emit a low level of light radiation, but the origin and function of these ‘biophotons’ are not yet fully understood. An international team of physicists, funded by the Foundational Questions Institute, FQxI, has proposed a new approach for investigating this phenomenon based on statistical analyses of this emission. Their aim is to test whether biophotons can play a role in the transport of information within and between living organisms, and whether monitoring biophotons could contribute to the development of medical techniques for the early diagnosis of various diseases. Their analyses of the measurements of the faint glow emitted by lentil seeds support models for the emergence of a kind of plant ‘intelligence,’ in which the biophotonic emission carries information and may thus be used by plants as a means to communicate. The team reported this and reviewed the history of biophotons in an article in the journal Applied Sciences in June 2024.