Dr. Jack Kruse

QUANTUM ENGINEERING #64: LIGHT IS INFORMATION

Added 2023-12-14 15:53:46 +0000 UTC

Many forget light is both a particle and wave. It has a duality. Life uses that advantage. Light from the sun acts more like a wave than a particle and that is how we use it as ainformation. Light created by photosynthesis (food) or by cells (bio-photons) acts more like a particle. No one should forget both pathways LIGHT IS INFORMATION. How it is used as information is what varies in Nature. I covered that here.

INTRODUCTION

Do you use time wisely? Do you prioritize your choices by weighing the value of information and wisdom against the cost of choice and decision?

Life always is wrapped in opportunity cost.

Decentralized medicine is both science and art in a unique package blended by perspectives of how the world is affected by Nature. Looked at from this vantage point, a good decentralized artist knows he has less time than ideas and this pushes him to act, to create, and to share his ideas born in his craft. Time is too precious to waste.

The job of the Nature is to always deepen the mystery for the artist. The job of the artist is to find the inspiration of Nature and reflect it in your creation and wisdom.

Optical biophysics studies how light is transformed into information for cells. Cells are filled with non-visual photoreceptors to capture the electromagnetic properties buried in photons of the cosmos. Biology is not a foundational science. Physics is. Optics forms the solid-state physics of the living state. This means paying attention to the light emissions and absorption frequencies from cells, DNA, and molecules of organic matter and how these interface with water. At birth, we are 80% water; at age 60, we are at 55-60% water by weight. Cells capture light and create water and are moderated by the nested array of electric and magnetic fields transformed by mitochondria located on the quantum level and capable of stretching up to the galactic level where plasma is ubiquitous. This plasma connects everything in an electrical circuit at unfathomable ranges and power. We do not operate at all ranges of this spectrum. This plasma has a pulse or rhythm to it. Our cells pay attention to this music and to its rhythm. The rhythm can be found in the absorbtion and emission spectra of a molecule.

Melatonin is a hormone that is naturally made by the mitochondria in your tissues, and its production is closely tied to light. In response to darkness, the mitochondria in our tissues initiates production of melatonin but light exposure at might or artificial light during the day slows or halts that production in mitochondria. The pineal gland is not where the melatonin story begins on circadian clock maintence.

This is the range of nature's music, which we are part of and can tune into. All parts of this spectrum have biological effects. Some are good, and some are harmful to cells. This is the nature of light exogenous to our cells.

The organism creates its own music endogenously— of a somewhat more restricted but still enormous range between 10^-7 m and 10^8 and beyond — it is both exquisite and subtle. With the present level of ‘man-made’ electromagnetic pollution of the environment, one might very well ask whether the organism's melody is in grave danger of being drowned out altogether by our mitochondria.

When we listen to a good talk, book, or podcast, whether off-the-cuff or seared into our memory by emotion, something in us is built to hear this music, not just in its register, the lilt, the cadence or its rhythm, but, in those moments, there are no words to be heard; all you can hear is the enveloping silence.

The same is true with cells…..the photons in the sun are sounds, while the silence is found in the darkness of night. The real music of life is found at night when light is absent. This is why ALAN, called artificial light at night, is so dangerous to humans. Feedback coupling has many facades in reality, and few in centralized science realize it.

Melatonin is made in the morning and during the day, but it only acts to delocalize electrons under the cover of darkness. Melatonin is like a conductor of Nature's music. Few understand how sunlight gives its information to serotonin to create melatonin in our mitochondria. Sunlight transforms serotonin into melatonin and melatonin, then IMBIBES our cells with quantum information to ensure cells display significantly higher amounts of both p53 and acetylated p53. This biochemical signal is the basis of the anticancer effect of mitochondrial melatonin. This is how light becomes biochemical information.

Not to discount the bio-chemical nature of life, which is hegemonic in the health science realm, the optical bio-physician asks: which of these is PRIMARY in the growth, replication, and division of labor of individual cells or entire species of organisms? Is it the chemical attributes of living matter or the electromagnetic properties?

Mitochondria, the transformer of light to melatonin, are not mechanical machines; you should never think of them this way.

Mechanical systems work by centralized control. Centralization is a hierarchy of controllers and the control that returns the systems to set points (equilibrium). Life is never at equilibrium. Mitochondria are fully built to be decentralized to light and dark cycles.

HOW DID WE COME TO KNOW THAT LIGHT IS INFORMATION AND BOTH LINK TO ENERGY?

Claude Shannon is regarded as the father of information theory. Alan Turing is known as the father of computer science. In 1943, Shannon and Turing worked on different projects at Bell Labs in New York City.

In 1948, intersecting with Shannon’s pioneering theory on information, Alan Turing simultaneously wrote a report at the National Physical Laboratory on “Intelligent Machinery” that laid the groundwork for the emerging fields of information networks and artificial intelligence.

They had discussions together, including about Turing’s “Universal Machine,” a type of computational brain. Turing seemed quite surprised that in a sea of code and computers, Shannon envisioned the emergence of arts and culture as an integral part of the digital revolution – a digital mitochondria of sorts. What was dreamlike to Turing's imagination in 1943 has become today's reality. Shannon's early connections between the arts, information, entropy, and computing intuit the future we are experiencing today. Turing famously said “Shannon wants to not just feed data to a brain, but cultural things! He wants to play music to it!” Shannon knew there was art buried in the nature of information. There was an inherent rhythm in both men's ideas.

Order and chaos are deeply linked in nature by rhythms. The paper above was the first paper that showed us how feedback loops could organize chaos in light & dark to build circadian biology using waves in rhythm. It requires no complexity and is a feature of Nature's self-organization ability. All it requires is a feedback loop to operate. Turing was the first to crack the key biological rhythms in life.

WHAT DID TURING STUMBLE INTO?

More light = more information in the system to build complexity. Darkness makes the information durable and usable. Energy tends to dissipate in the universe — and entropy, a measure of its dissipation, increases over time.

Time appears as entropy in cells and is coded for by molecular clocks. All clocks are flow meters of entropy. This is how matter organizes disorder into order. When a dissipative system controls entropy, life can manifest. This is a very basic idea in quantum biology that Turning explored before quantum biology became a disciple of decentralized science.

Three years before Turing's paper in 1951, Claude Shannon shook up the world with his work on information theory.

In 1948, Claude Shannon's paper showed that entropy is linked to information. Entropy is a way to measure the amount of information in a source. The more information you have, the higher the entropy of the source is. A high-entropy message means low information gain and a low-entropy message means high information gain. Biology wants to create a low entropy game in cells so cells can collect massive amounts of information. Mother Nature built cells filled with clocks to take advantage of this idea. Information gain can be thought of as the message fidelity in a system: the amount of clean knowledge available in a system.

To physicists John Wheeler, the ideas of Turing and Shannon implied energy and information are deeply linked. John Wheeler proved that was true in physics using the Landauer Principle (1961). Biologists still have no idea about the implications of this work.

Landauer's principle is a physical principle pertaining to the lower theoretical limit of energy consumption of computation. It holds that an irreversible change in information stored in a computer, such as merging two computational paths, dissipates a minimum amount of heat to its surroundings. Landauer's principle states that the minimum energy needed to erase one bit of information is proportional to the temperature at which the system is operating.

At room temperature, the Landauer limit represents an energy of approximately 0.018 eV (2.9×10^−21 J). Modern computers in 2023 use about a billion times as much energy per operation. This means information transfer in nature always has an energy cost. This is why nature uses a PoW mechanism. It explains why John Wheeler said information and energy are the same physical entity in Nature. It might also explain why cells are filled with water to dissipate the effect of heat created during information processing. Remember water has a massive heat capacity.

Wheeler divided his own life into three parts. The first part he called “Everything is Particles.” The second part was “Everything is Fields.” And the third part, which Wheeler considered the bedrock of his physical theory, he called “Everything is Information.”

When Shannon was at Bell Lab in 1948, Bell labs had tons of information buried in their messages but had no way to mine or collect the information to make the data useful. Shannon thought about the problem and wrote a paper about using mathematics to data-mine information.
The paper was called "A Mathematical Theory of Communication."

Once Shannon connected these dots mathematically, it opened the door to signal processing, compression, and converting messages into an algorithm code to transmit them digitally. It gave rise to the Cambrian revolution in computers after 1948. Turing died in 1951, but his ideas lived on in many computer engineers.

THE LINK TO ENERGY AND THERMODYNAMICS

Shannon's limit in information transfer mathematically looks exactly like Boltzmann's equation for entropy in thermodynamics. Entropy was an idea originated in the 1824 by Carnot. I've written Patreon entries on Carnot's theorem. Both concepts, bit and photon, share the same roots: nineteenth-century thermodynamics and the concept of entropy.

In 1877, Boltzman gave us a statistical explanation of the second law of thermodynamics. In 1877, he provided the current definition of entropy. Shannon's papers gave us a similar answer for information as his equation shows below.

Because these two equations are nearly identical mathematically, physicists began to realize in the 1960s that information and energy are linked physically in reality. Nature is revealing her secrets in these equations.

Shannon's work on information entropy links to Michael Crawford's theory on DHA. These ideas coordinate with Einstein's special relativity (1905). Einstein's work directly ties to the Landauer Principle (1961) to explain how cells use light to communicate. Information transfer costs us energy.

Landauer predicted that erasing even one bit of information would release a tiny amount of heat, a figure that he calculated. This implies mitochondria are time machines because they also transform light energy into CO2, water, and heat = mtDNA is a hydrogen heat engine.

If information is energy, as Wheeler has told us, Information, once created, has to have a "finite and quantifiable mass."

This connects information theory directly to energy and the mass equivalence equation of Einstein, E-mc^2.

This is how they are linked. Light is light energy in photon form.

HOW DOES THERMODYNAMICS LINK TO THE CIRCADIAN CLOCK?

How do cells do it? Your epigenetic mutation load (EML) of your tissues is the key to understanding how the light you use in your environment builds the life you live. Nature has built a clock timing mechanism as you live life based on your light choices. A higher EML has been associated with age-related pathological conditions like X chromosome activation skewing. The circadian clock in humans controls chromatin marking. BMAL1 is a clock gene, and HSF1 is a HEAT shock protein.

Remember what I said about Landauer's principle above. As information is transfered, so is heat. This is why we have heat shock proteins in cells. Both get optimized by sunlight exposure. HSF1 is an important transcription factor for the induction of NAT1 in human cells and is required for androgen activation of the NAT1 promoter. This is why Neil Armstrong had lifelong problems with his testosterone levels when he returned from the moon, and it is why so many women struggle with sex hormone problems in their lives when they are filled with methylation problems from alien light. This is how humans inactivate the X chromosome to limit disease and create time. If we choose badly, the opposite occurs.

Shannon realized that the quantity of the message had ZERO to do with its true meaning. No one yet realizes the same thing is true in humans in how their colony of mitochondria works with sunlight.
Shannon found just using a "one and zero" is all it took to solve Bell Labs' problems around understanding information = where the word "bit" comes from.

Physicist John Wheeler gave us the idea that everything is information." = it from bit........
Wheeler tells us every particle in the universe emanates from the information locked inside it.

Mitochondria are Turing machines that use Shannon's binary code of 0 and 1, where 0 = H+ and 1 = deuterium, and solar photons drive the Boolean logic gates in the mitochondria to action. Mother Nature-innovation was profound. She created an electromechanical switching circuit that could decide things. She proved 3.8 billion years before Shannon that it was possible to perform complex operations by means of electromagnetic relay circuits built from hydrogen isotopes. I covered how mitochondria do this here -------> https://optimalklubs.com/kruse-for-dummies-general/

NAD+/NADH is a proxy for melatonin production in our mitochondria by the rhythm and time of sunlight and by darkness in our lives we get. Melatonin is the key light hormone that protects the heteroplasmy rate mitochondrial DNA to keep clocks operating well. You won’t hear that from a food guru. This means melatonin is the photochemical gate keeper of the % of heteroplasmy in mitochondria in a cell. It not only controls inflammation (entropy) but it also controls turnover of DHA in the membranes of our cells. This complex dance begins in the skin and eye, at the RPE, where ocular melanin and melatonin begins its quantum magic by using AM light to regenerate the melanopsin receptors in broad daylight by using UV and IR light. They operate together when UV-IRA light are present simultaneously.

THE ANCIENTS KNEW ABOUT THIS LINKAGE

The roots of brain entrainment delve deep into history, where rhythmic stimuli like drumming or flickering flames were used in ancient rituals to induce altered states of consciousness. This primal concept has evolved into a sophisticated technology where light is the rhythm conductor for the brain's symphony of mitochondria.

The spins of electrons/protons are not only manipulated by light. Light has both electric and magnetic fields. Spins of electrons and protons are also affected by magnetic fields (ATPase of mitochondria or the dynamo of Earth or those found in tech gear). It turns out spin states can also be affected by electrical fields (emitted from proteins side chains) and can be used to collect and store information optically from electrons or the photons they carry. This allows energy and information to be buried and included in the atomic structure of cells.

Brain entrainment through light pulsing hinges on synchronizing the brain's electrical patterns with external stimuli. By emitting light at specific frequencies from mitochondrial metabolism, the brain is coaxed into a 'frequency following response', aligning its brainwave patterns to the rhythm of the light.

This synchronization isn't just fascinating; it's profoundly useful from a physiological and evolutionary perspective. Our brainwaves mirror our mental states - beta waves dominate when we're focused, while alpha waves signify relaxation. By entraining these frequencies with light, we can potentially steer our mental state, precisely guiding the cognitive ship.

The cellular organization is the key to precision optical signaling. Life is all about optimizing optical physics inside cells. It transforms energy from the environment to do this. Modern physics has now proven that energy and information are equivalent in physics. Landauer & Shannon's work was critical in making this linkage.

The cellular organization is the key to precision optical signaling. Life is all about optimizing atomic molecular organization (AMO physics) INSIDE OF CELLS. It transforms energy into information from the environment. Modern physics has now proven that energy and information are equivalent in physics. Landauer & Shannon's work was critical in making this linkage. Modern quantum biology has experimentally proven that energy is trapped directly at the electronic level in cells. Energy is stored not only as vibrational and electronic bond energies in biochemicals but also in the structure of the system: its membranes, gradients, fields and flow patterns, compartments, organelles, cell water, the size and shape of our ventricles, and tissues. All this, in turn, enables organisms to mobilize their energies coherently at any time it is needed and hence make available the entire spectrum of stored energies for physiological work. Life really is energy transformed on demand by Nature's atomic design in cells. Light is the information powering the ENTIRE system.

SUMMARY

Who described the mathematics of decision-making? Claude Shannon did. Shannon showed how to map logic onto the physical world (ledger). Turing showed how to design computers in the language of mathematical logic.

Mother Nature pre-dated both men's ideas by 3.8 billion years. Evolution was Nature's laboratory that ended by creating a mitochondria which acts as a Turing machine.

Our brains need to optimally encode different options and compare between them. So, how did Nature build the brain? It created an organ filled with mitochondria that responds at an attosecond level to electric and magnetic fields at 90 degrees to each other in light waves. Our brain is measuring light waves to decipher the chaos in our environment. In an abstract way, it mimics the double-slit experiment in physics.

With this brain, decision making became more probable. During human decision-making, attention plays a pivotal role by guiding information sampling between alternative pathways in the brain's mitochondria.

One of the hallmarks of the living system in cells is that they are exquisitely sensitive to specific, weak rhythmic signals.

During human decision-making, attention plays a pivotal role by guiding information sampling between alternative pathways in the brain. Our brains need to encode different options and compare them optimally using optics. So, how did Nature build the human brain? It created an organ that responds at an attosecond level to electric and magnetic fields at 90 degrees to each other in light waves. Our brain is measuring waves to decipher the chaos in our environment. It mimics the double-slit experiment in physics.

So far, the role of attention in decision-making has only been addressed through saccadic displacements in our eyes. Might saccade be the first clue that the brain is using our eyelids to episodically polarize unpolarized sunlight to create a new type of rhythm to make sense of our world? This NEW idea implies that seeing is not always attending, and attending is not always seeing.

Brain entrainment with light pulsing is more than a biological evolutionary advance. It might be the next frontier for neuroscientific technological advancement; it's a window into peering into the vast potential of the human mind.