QUANTUM ENGINEERING #59: TETRAGRAMMATON PART 3: WHY DOES LIFE REFLECT A RED EDGE?

Centralized researchers say the processes behind the solar tracking are an unexpected mystery.  Maybe if the knew the evolutionary history of flowers better they'd know about the history of the non visual photo receptive system?  

Phototropins of plants and melanopsin or mammals have a lot in common.  They are the blue light non visual photopigments.  Auxin of plants and encephalopsin have a lot in common.  I wrote about auxins in the Ubiquitination series years ago.  What protects the nucleus from UV light in mammals? OPN3 = encephalopsin

Opsin 3 mediates UVA-induced keratinocyte supranuclear melanin cap formation​ in mammals.  Opsins work with auxins too.  Amazing Mother Nature reuses her best ideas huh?.  Why don't the scientists know?  Because centralized science is done in silos.  


The ancestors of flowering plants diverged from the common ancestor of all living gymnosperms before the end of the Carboniferous, over 300 million years ago. This is when mammals showed up on Earth as well and began to specialize in melanin biology and used opsins to expand its usefulness on Earth with a changing sun after the Cambrian explosion.  In the Cretaceous epoch, angiosperms diversified explosively, becoming the dominant group of plants across the planet to create flowers.  Without non visual photochemicals there is no flowering plants. 

What do decentralized clinicians and scientists know?   Light energy is known to mediate isomerization through several mechanisms, including thermal, photochemical, and mechanical effects. Photoactive molecules are often isomerized by photochemical action as they can directly absorb light exciting the molecules to an upper electronic state. In photoisomerization events, the photon energy of the electromagnetic radiation often causes the rearrangement of cis-trans positions of organic compounds that contain a double bond in their structure.  See retinal transformation as a best in class example of this chemical process on Earth.

Decentralized medicine lesson:  Earth’s atmosphere has not always contained significant amounts of oxygen. For the first two billion years of our planet’s history, the atmosphere was rich in carbon dioxide and methane, but around 2.4 billion years ago something changed: the Great Oxygenation Event that saw the abundance of free oxygen in our atmosphere dramatically rise. The cause of this is thought to be cyanobacteria, which are able to perform photosynthesis – the transformation of sunlight and carbon dioxide into metabolic energy to produce sugars that fuel life’s processes, and oxygen as a ‘waste’ product – using a green pigment called chlorophyll.  I covered this in the Rubin/Kruse/Huberman Part 1 & Part 2 podcast.

  
I told Andrew that retinal predated chlorophyll, hemoglobin, and melanin, and that the retinal and chlorophyll evolved in tandem, absorbing sunlight at complementary wavelengths.  That is biophysics 101.  

Retinal-based phototrophic metabolisms are still prevalent throughout the world today, especially in the oceans where life began, and represent one of the most important bioenergetic processes on Earth.  Recall that Andrew was surprised that mammalian brains where filled with amphibian melanopsin in the podcast, but I was not.  I know the evolutionary history of the chemical evolution of light absorbing pigments.    

Chlorophyll absorbs light peaking at wavelengths of 465nm and 665nm. This is why leaves appear green, because they reflect green light rather than absorb it. However, the Sun’s spectrum peaks at ~550nm, which includes yellow and green light.

A number of proteins that absorb sunlight contain a molecule of retinal, including one protein called bacteriorhodopsin that absorbs light peaking at 568nm, close to the wavelength at which the Sun’s light peaks, and most notably in the range that chlorophyll does not absorb in. This is exactly what should have gotten centralized science thinking that the two pigments – retinal and chlorophyll – co-evolved on early Earth before the sun emitted its increase burst of UV light around the Cambrian explosion.  

Remember I told them both our sun is a G class star and I reminded them both of the implications of a changing light perspective?  I retold this story to Bill Gifford in Part three of this podcast that has not yet been released.  Here you are getting an early preview of that interview.  I have argued for 15 years that because retinal is the simpler molecule and linked to every opsin found in mammals, it would have come first, with chlorophyll (which is more efficient at transforming sunlight into metabolic energy) evolving afterwards, with each filling different niches in terms of the light they absorb.  This is why the biology of Vitamin A and Vitamin D are linked in mammals. 

 

Experiments have now shown that combining bacteriorhodopsin with a membrane vesicle to form the equivalent of a biological proto-cell can effectively result in trapping and storing sunlight in a cell.

It should have made sense to centralized scientists that this was a very early evolutionary invention coinciding with the evolution of the first cells, but it was not because centralized biology does not understand how light sculpts life.  

Today, in the lab, we now have proof my hunches years ago were correct.  Using the energy-trapping capability of the cell membrane, the membrane potential [the difference in electrical potential between inside and outside the cell, allowing the cell to provide energy] represents one of the most important reasons why cells are the fundamental unit of life.

Because vegetation on Earth predominantly absorbs red light, but reflects infrared light, viewing vegetation using a spectroscope reveals a dramatic dip in reflected light at red wavelengths, a sudden decrease that is called the ‘red edge’. More complex animal life, like mammals also absorbs red light, but it is also absorbs infrared light as well.  This gave animals more complexity at the same time in evolution.  In plants, it has been shown today in NASA experiments that when probing the spectrum of light reflected from potentially habitable exoplanets, scientists could search for a red edge in the planet’s light, which would be a biosignature indicative of vegetation using chlorophyll, or its extraterrestrial equivalent.  This red edge also explains why the picture below is axiomatically true and why you must question your centralized eye doctors.

SUMMARY

I'm back in NYC right now and am visiting the place where I figured this out as a youngster.  Today I am back at the Hayden Planetarium on the West side of Central Park with all the leaves changing color because of a changing light cycle.  When light changes it induces a light stress in the plant.  This is seen by us a color change in leaves.  Similarly, when mammals are stressed by light they exhibit a blue shift in their non visual photoreceptive system.  This has huge implications fro decentralized clinicians learning how to care for their patients in the new paradigm of medicine I am bringing to the government of El Salvador.  

In Malibu and again on stage in Lisbon Portugal I made the case that the mRNA vaccines gave humans who were compliant with the vaccine mandate blue shifted.  When their tissues were blue shifted, the non visual photoreceptors were damaged, retinal was released, and photonic signal was changed and this lead to sudden and new complications in our clinics.  I knew to expect this in March of 2020 and this is why I told my tribe to avoid these new genetic therapies.  

How did I figure this out as a kid?  My time at the Hayden Plantetarium as a kid was critical in answering this mystery.  I was curious about light and how the sun changed over eolutionary timescales and remember that I was taught in grade school sunflowers use retinal in them.  I then engaged my curioity further and I found out that retinal absorbs what green plants reflect back to the environment.  This is why all plant life looks green to the mammalian eye.  This is another perfectly couple system in biology on Earth that links absorption and emission spectra of light.  

Intriguingly, since retinal pigments in the mammalian eye and in the non visual photosystems absorb green and yellow light, and reflect or transmit red and blue light, then retinal-based life, early on Earth would have appeared purple in color if humans were on Earth to see it.  

THE COLOR PURPLE SOLVED THE MYSTERY

Proteobacteria are the oldest bacteria on Earth in our evolutionary history. They are a purple bacteria.  Proteobacteria are the dominant prokaryotes in aquatic systems. The ocean is where life begain.  The Proteobacteria lineage contains phototrophs, chemolithotrophs, and chemoorganotrophs, and its members can be found in both oxic and anoxic environments.

This explained to me why they were the dominant form of life on Earth before the Great Oxygenation event.  

Since retinal (Vitamin A) is a much simpler molecule than chlorophyll, I reasoned, it could and should be more commonly found in life in the Universe, and therefore a ‘green edge’ in a planet’s spectrum potentially should be viewed as a biosignature for retinal-based life.  It turns out now NASA agrees with Uncle Jack too.  They always look for the green reflected edge of planets spectra now when they are looking for life in the cosmos.  The non visual photoreceptor system is a key in the development of the melanin in the mammalian system on Earth.  Chalk one up for decentralized science over the centralized opinions.  

NOW YOU SHOULD UNDERSTAND WHY ALL THESE PICTURES I HAVE USED FOR YEARS WHERE WAY AHEAD OF THEIR TIME.  

CITES

1. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/oct/31/seeds-of-doubt-mystery-remains-over-how-sunflowers-track-light

2. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/early-evolution-of-purple-retinal-pigments-on-earth-and-implications-for-exoplanet-biosignatures/63A1AD8AF544BEEF4C6D4A2D53130327