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Photon Emission from Perturbed and Dying Organisms — The Concept of Photon Cycling in Biological Systems

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Integrative Biophysics

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Biological organisms are open systems as they exchange energy E, information Inf and mass m with their environment (Fig. 1). They achieve the degree of spaciotemporal order (infrastructure) necessary for survival through the flow of metabolic free energy ΔG. To maintain this order and a steady-state (a dynamic equilibrium) requires that the rate of entropy S production inside the open system dS i / dt is balanced by the rate of external entropy S e production as shown in Fig. 1:

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Slawinski, J. (2003). Photon Emission from Perturbed and Dying Organisms — The Concept of Photon Cycling in Biological Systems. In: Popp, FA., Beloussov, L. (eds) Integrative Biophysics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0373-4_9

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