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Planck's 'constant'. Now we can perceive a complete world of
theory inside the photon that promises to yield new physical and
biophysical understandings. Perhaps this HUP episode of science
in the early and late 20th century gives us a more complete
understanding of the differences between modelling and reality.
We accept the assumptions of a scientific model on faith in order
to find a way forwards via theory to an understanding of reality.
The more two-way reflections there are between physics and any
theory, the more refined and in focus become our perceptions.
Ironically we must keep our cerebral antennae open to outside
broadcast without closing off reception, as was the case at the 5th
Solvay Conference in 1927, when Heisenberg and Bohr suggested,
'
We regard QM as a complete theory for which the fundamental
physical and mathematical hypotheses are no longer susceptible of
modification
.' It is pointed out that such an emphatic faux pas was
notthe end of the story.
In their normal role biophotons convey energy and information
to parts of a biological system, in addition to their role as a
binding energy at the EM level. One form of photonic information
is phase length, whereby biological systems can infer positions and
lengths of their surroundings for various purposes, including sight,
touch,smell,motion,locationandpredation.Abody'sfieldsconnect
it with its environment. These whole-body fields or biophotons
appear no different to ordinary connective photons except that they
perform an informative role. Within the body biophotons perform
thisinformativeroleandinadditionprovideadistributionofenergy
toitscells,organsandtissues.DNAiscentraltothisroleofsupplying
energy during the cell cycle. SFT suggests self-organisation within
a cell occurs because of a reducing level of energy as the cycle
proceeds.Biophotonsprovideinformationandenergywhenagroup
of cells decides to replicate their own species. In time a biophoton
may perhaps be found to be as different to a photon as a rolled-
up armadillo (Fig. 1.8a) is to a conceptual buckyball of similar size
(Fig.1.8b).
In the light of SFT, uncertainty is seen as an approximation to
the physics of the photon, the electron, the nucleus and any system
studied using the quantum formulation of the 20th century. The
modelofthephoton asawavepacket isthereason foritsnumerical
