ALL LIVING ORGANISMS are gravitationally bound to Earth's surface and spun through three major gravitational potentials while wobbling around the Earth-moon barycenter at Mach 88. Along this pathway, organisms are subjected to non-isotropic strains that are repetitive in their geometry and their periodicity. While the strains are weak, their periodicity is shared by all bound states at all scales and are ideal for driving evolution. Evidence suggests that living organisms use the non-inertial cues associated with orbital motion to help regulate and synchronize their innermost metabolic functions. Our goal is to prove it - but to do so, we believe it necessary to revisit some of the physics principles that currently exclude such couplings.

THE EXTREME BIO CHALLENGE - UNDERSTANDING THE ROLE OF GRAVITATION IN METABOLISM:
This is a huge theoretical and experimental challenge because gravitation is presently excluded from quantum mechanics and most biochemical modeling.   We contemplate an exchange mechanism whereby gravitational forces act directly on nucleons bound within the electromagnetic core of molecules by Earth’s spin and orbital motion. These cyclical strains can provide the biases which biochemical processes need to build and maintain order.  They drive chiral acceleration cycles into collective electromagnetic states which are shared by all molecules within tissues, membranes, and enzymes and seek low energy resonance states. Order within living organisms then, can be built from the inside-out, as joining molecular configurations and metabolic pathways in a growing organism must seek coherence with the dynamical states found to be successful in previous cycles and used to regulate basal metabolic rates and help cue circadian, circalunar, and seasonal processes.  Advantageously, configurations which do evolve and deliver an improved coherence for the system become solutions for all subsequent generations because orbital strains are reliable for billions of years.

Any such model necessarily pushes the limit of where current physics and biophysics can comfortably be applied. But because the need to understand the nature of the bio-gravitational coupling is so essential to both our space ventures and to an improved understanding of metabolic order here on Earth, our project necessitates we push the science to its extreme limits of testability. If you’ve got the skills and imagination, join our team and help us solve this problem.

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