Japanese scientists think that laughter is a weapon that in healthy doses can end the world’s wars.  Professor Yoji Kimura is trying to find a healthy way to measure it.  He is an expert in communications.  He has developed a machine to chart out laughter and a unit called “aH” to calculate it.

From his research, we find that children laugh more freely releasing 10 aH per second.  This is found to be twice as much as adult.  This research has been done by Dr. Kimura in Kansai University at Osaka.  He thinks that adult tend to think whether it is appropriate to laugh and as a result, laughing spontaneously does not come to them! 

Laughing is like a restart function in a computer.  Laughing freely is very important in the course of human evolution.  Human’s laughter is produced in 4 successive stages.  They are:

1. Letting loose.
2. Deviating from the norm.
3. Free laughing.
4. Having the laughter overflow.

He thinks that there is a circuit in the human brain that creates laughter through these steps.  He is trying to understand the mechanism. Dr. Kimura attached sensors to the subject’s stomach over the diaphragm and detects the movements.  Th machine looks 3000 times a second at electric elements normally produced in the body.  According to his theory, he thinks that humor in the brain is discharged directly through the movements of the diaphragm.  The different types of laughter are derision and cynicism.  The device invented by him will be used to determine to see if the person is pretending to laugh.  His measuring device of laughter will be as small as a mobile phone and it will be marketed.  Dr. Kimura planned to present his studies at International Society for Humor Studies.  He looked forward of understanding differences in laughter internationally.

Laughter is something that has almost disappeared from our life.  Our life is mostly rat race and we chase money and power!  We forget to laugh!  Though there are some humor shows and cartoons etc. to make us laugh, it is hard to see people laugh!  Laughing is not so easy as people think twice before laughing! We have laughing clubs in our neighborhood.  In fact the club split later and now 2 laughing clubs are there! Does that mean from laughing to quarelling among members for becoming president and chair persons of the club…and then again laughing??????? Ha ha ha ah aha ah aha ah a!!!! J