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The two possible physical energy transmission mechanisms in mitochondria: a electrical/electrochemical, and b optical (light). The arrows indicate the possible transmission directions. 1: proton conductance along the mitochondrial membrane. Whereas the existence of mechanism a is experimentally proven, mechanism b is currently only predicted by theory and no experimental investigation into the correctness of the prediction has yet been published
