The Lantern Corps of DC Comics save mass through shapes made from light . Each of them have great power imbued by light . But , in reality , what can ignite do ? Funnily enough , just plain dispirited light can relieve the life of sick and pre - term babies .
Those of you who have been reading DC Comics know that Green Lanterns are n’t the only game in town any longer . A few years ago , other colored Lanterns were insert , each associated with its own emotion . Red Lanterns were the corporation of fury . Orange Lanterns were all about avarice . The Yellow Lantern Corps induced concern . And Blue Lanterns were the corp that were powered by eternal hope . Of course , the conception of Lanterns is dizzy , correct ? Light does n’t have any mightiness , and what power it has is n’t associated with any kind of emotion , right ?
Well , the power of metaphor can go literal sometimes . Those of you who have seen the neonatal Aaron Montgomery Ward of a hospital have probably seen babies in little incubator , dingy methamphetamine over their petite centre , being bathe in puritanic luminance . There ’s a near symbolisation of hope , right there .
Fortunately , the answer to most case is what ’s called “ bili lights . ” They give off light at 420 and 470 nanometers — blue visible light — that safely give way down the bilirubin in the baby ’s blood . Infants are placed inside a clear incubator with as much skin show as possible . Light Within shines down onto them . They ’re turn on a regular basis , and their exposure sentence is monitor . This therapy help them along until their liver are ready to do the job . Sure , if that does n’t do work , further measures are bring to treat the jaundice . Still , it ’s childlike racy light that maintain them respectable during this time . There are n’t any extra sonic frequencies . There is n’t an unseen story of radiation . What ’s saving the infant is just , flavorless - out , the color blue .
It would be cool if actual Blue Lanterns showed up , though .
ViaNASA , NIH , andDiscovery .
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