QUANTUM ENGINEERING #38: THE STORY OF LIGHT & WATER FOR LIFE PRE-POMC

The video above was recorded before I ever released the story of POMC and the evolution of man from his cousins.  But if you listen closely, especially at the end of the podcast I opened those doors.  This series of interviews I thought would lead Cory and Robin to the story of melanin biology which is the ultimate battery for sunlight.  We never completed this series because Robin lost interest, and decided to go back to the UK when COVID ended and the tapes were lost.  Cory recovered some of them and tried to improve the audio but this is as good as good could get. The story, however, is intact.  This story is important to understand what evolution did with melanin and the POMC gene.  We capture light via electrons and we move them the same way.  When electrons are moved they have to be controlled.  What controls the flow of electrons?  Semiconductive circuits.  DHA is key to the retinohypothalamic tract that controls circadian biology.  DHA creation had to be made before melanin could be innovated.  DHA and mitochondria innovation at the same time created water for eukaryotes.  That is how the water story began for life.

Organisms are open thermodynamic systems dependent on energy flow. Energy flows in together with materials, & waste products are exported, along with the spent energy that goes to make up entropy. Entropy defines the flow of time.  Molecular clocks are flowmeters of entropy.  And that is how living systems can, in principle, escape from the second law of thermodynamics by staying on the edge of it.  Cells do this by creating order from chaos using cells as a dissipative structure. That structure is built around the AMO physics of atoms in cells.  Their molecular arrangement inside the cell is the key life uses to do the things it does.

Cyanobacteria came sometime between 3.8 - 2.0 billion years ago and they possessed for the first time on Earth the machinery to utilize water as a fuel source by oxidizing it. THEY BURNED WATER TO MAKE ENERGY.  More significantly, the by-product of photosynthesis happened to be oxygen. for the planet.  That creation stimulated the evolution of mitochondria. This event, known as the “Great Oxidation Event,” occurred sometime between 2.4 – 2.1 billion years ago.

Life remained simple with just bacteria and archaea dominating the planet mostly in the oceans where electrons dominated.  Then environmental change happened again on Earth because the light of the sun changed at the Cambrian explosion. This event changed how life began to use water.  It brought water from outside of bacterial walls to the inside of cells to make water do things to light to build complex life.

Mitochondria created a sea of water for life to innovate upon. Water (H2O) is the third most common molecule in the Universe (following the H2 and CO molecule), and its standard chemical structure, based on the hydrogen bond, is actually confined by a simple scheme of charges interacting via static Coulomb forces; that is, liquid water as most humans experience it on Earth is totally reliant on electrostatics and omits all mention of electrodynamics and the consequent radiation field.

Cells have a different experience of liquid water than humans do because cells eliminate the Coulomb force at their scale.  Human cells do not burn water as cyanobacteria did.  We use it as a superconductive highway to move electrons and protons around our tissues to ferry solar light our proteins collect. It has been speculated that a large percentage of effects in condensed matter physics make use of the radiation field in one way or another but it still doesn’t seem to have found a place in much of the basic chemistry of life because it negates water from its understanding.

The POMC gene is the most innovative gene in all of life because it is the most complex condensed matter protein currently on Earth.  In biological systems almost all water is within a fraction of a micron or less from a surface or molecular backbone and so is interfacial water.  In humans, water inside a cell is never too far from coherent water in our cells by design.

This interfascial water behaves in a quantum way, where the Coulomb law of electrostatics does not apply. In these circumstances, charges attract and they do not repel each other.  This is why your mitochondrial matrix is filled with H+.  All of the biology itself depends on this scenario, so as to allow the accumulation of tissues from negatively charged cell bodies.  When you separate charges, you are creating the means to store energy from the sun.  You are creating a mini-sun in your cells to run your life.

SUMMARY

According to the domain system in evolution, the Tree of Life consists of three domains such as Archaea, Bacteria, and Eukaryotes.  The first two are all prokaryotes, single-celled microorganisms without a membrane-bound nucleus. All organisms that have a cell nucleus and other membrane-bound organelles are included in Eukaryotes.  Every domain of life emits light from its cells.  Prokaryotes emit 5000 times more light than eukaryotes do.

The frequency of light from the sun has changed for life many times in our evolutionary history.  The most recent change came from human frontal lobes via our imagination and innovation.  That innovation however is harmful to our POMC biology.  

Because of POMC biology, humans need to go on a tech diet more than they need to go on a food diet.

Current versions of mammals are filled with mitochondria that are acclimatized to the specific amount of oxygen on Earth, that we take it for granted. However, oxygen was absent from the Earth’s atmosphere for close to half of its lifespan.  This is when we used other atoms as our terminal electron acceptors.  Their use was the best thermodynamic option in those epochs, but they were not the best choices on the periodic table.   When the earth was formed around 4.5 billion years ago, it had vastly different conditions in the environment. At that time, the earth had a reducing atmosphere, consisting of carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapor, as opposed to the present-day atmosphere which consists primarily of nitrogen (71%) and oxygen (21%).

Though sunlight split the water vapor in the atmosphere into oxygen and hydrogen, the oxygen quickly reacted with methane and got locked into the earth’s crust, barely leaving any traces in the atmosphere. A silent, mysterious force worked to release oxygen steadily until the very composition of the atmosphere changed. That mysterious entity happened to be a microbe: Cyanobacteria.

The earliest onset of life on our planet occurred around 3.8 billion years ago.  This video above begins to explore the history of Earth.   Since oxygen was projected to be absent from the earth at that time, metabolism in living organisms would have been anaerobic, involving the use of minerals present in the ocean to generate energy. This is how energy was transformed at ocean vents for billions of years.  

There is also isotopic evidence for autotrophic carbon fixation at 3.7 to 3.8 billion years ago, although there is nothing that indicates that these organisms were photosynthetic. All of these claims for early photosynthesis are highly controversial and have engendered a great deal of spirited discussion in the literature (Buick, 2008).

However, around 2.7 billion years ago, a peculiar group of microbes, known as cyanobacteria, evolved in our seas. Phylogenetic analyses based on 16S and 23s rRNA, genome reconstructions, and fossil evidence have been used to understand the evolutionary characteristics of these early living organisms. These microbes possessed the remarkable ability to perform a different type of photosynthesis than the one we know today. This newfound ability allowed them to generate energy directly from sunlight.

Mammals used the same game plan when they innovated the POMC gene 220 million years ago and this innovation was refined and then amplified 65 million years ago to create man.  

This is fractal biology 101.  

CITES

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2949000/