Bright flash of light marks incredible moment life begins when sperm meets egg

[ghi]

I don't believe the explanation in this article, magnesium, calcium Boom, blahhhh.,  This can't be  just  simple bioluminiscent process .Maybe this is how everything begins, a little big bang, first spark of life, a portal opens by cellular level connected with other corners of the Universe or parallel worlds;, some kind of WiFi connection with other worlds , we are downloaded in this material world and strat building this biomachines around the software, cell by cell  .

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/04/26/bright-flash-of-light-marks-incredible-moment-life-begins-when-s/

This clip comes in my mind, he was to big to be sent in the right place.     Life begins 9 months before we leave the incubator, we have wrong date of birth on our IDs.

[Devil 505]

Couldn't you have taken a clip from a good Terminator movie? 

[bustr]

When the sperm enters the egg there is a surge of calcium which triggers a release of zinc ions. In the surrounding environment are molecules which bind with the zinc and biological fluorescence occurs. It is a well know fact of biologically sourced zinc that it will fluoresce. No one had ever watched an egg being fertilized at that microscopic level until a few years ago when it was done with mouse eggs. And then they setup the same experiment to watch in vitro fertilized human eggs. Zinc is used to see synapse activity in mouse brain slices because of this propensity.

You are probably watching some of the same process with deep sea organisms that self illuminate.

[zack1234]

 

[DubiousKB]

micro version of the big bang! SCIENCE! 

[Bizman]

Two pieces of mineral hit each other means life? As kids we used to search for quartz stones in the yard and bang them in the dark. AFAIK that didn't create any life, at least no one from those days has called me daddy. Or worshiped me as the Creator.

[mechanic]

All hail Bizman. For he is mighty.

[nrshida]

Two pieces of mineral hit each other means life? As kids we used to search for quartz stones in the yard and bang them in the dark. AFAIK that didn't create any life, at least no one from those days has called me daddy. Or worshiped me as the Creator.

Bizman is singlehandedly responsible for Britain's extremely high teenage pregnancy rate. Oh sure, just keep banging your rocks thinking that nothing happens just because you can't see it. Meanwhile, in Essex...

 

[zack1234]

Bizman likes Bruv

[Bizman]

Bizman is singlehandedly responsible for Britain's extremely high teenage pregnancy rate. Oh sure, just keep banging your rocks thinking that nothing happens just because you can't see it. Meanwhile, in Essex...

Actually I used both hands. Makes a much bigger bang that way.

All hail Bizman. For he is mighty.

Son? 

[NatCigg]

you see! i told you! mouses have souls too! 

[nrshida]

Son? 

 

[ghi]

When the sperm enters the egg there is a surge of calcium which triggers a release of zinc ions. In the surrounding environment are molecules which bind with the zinc and biological fluorescence occurs. It is a well know fact of biologically sourced zinc that it will fluoresce. No one had ever watched an egg being fertilized at that microscopic level until a few years ago when it was done with mouse eggs. And then they setup the same experiment to watch in vitro fertilized human eggs. Zinc is used to see synapse activity in mouse brain slices because of this propensity.

You are probably watching some of the same process with deep sea organisms that self illuminate.

Hmm, you are just spoiling my my low tech philosophical fantasy with science. 
We discovered electricity 100 year ago only and I don't believe science can explain every thunderbolt or electric discharge in nature.

[Zoney]

Ghi, the laws of physics are universal and constant.  Science may not be able to explain everything in the universe but that is because our understanding is limited.  It may well be that there are some things truly impossible to know, but those same things are still within the physical laws.  Even if there is a higher power that wrote these laws, unless there are laws of "magic" we do not perceive, everything and every one must exist within that definition and their actions must follow the rules.

[Delirium]

What happens when the sperm meets the uvula?