The earth is alive?

[Omni connexae!]

The earth is alive, asserts a revolutionary scientific theory of life emerging from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. The trans-disciplinary theory demonstrates that purportedly inanimate, non-living objects—for example, planets, water, proteins, and DNA—are animate, that is, alive. With its broad explanatory power, applicable to all areas of science and medicine, this novel paradigm aims to catalyze a veritable renaissance.

Erik Andrulis, PhD, assistant professor of molecular biology and microbiology, advanced his controversial framework in his manuscript “Theory of the Origin, Evolution, and Nature of Life,” published in the peer-reviewed journal, Life. His theory explains not only the evolutionary emergence of life on earth and in the universe but also the structure and function of existing cells and biospheres.

In addition to resolving long-standing paradoxes and puzzles in chemistry and biology, Dr. Andrulis’ theory unifies quantum and celestial mechanics. His unorthodox solution to this quintessential problem in physics differs from mainstream approaches, like string theory, as it is simple, non-mathematical, and experimentally and experientially verifiable. As such, the new portrait of quantum gravity is radical.

The basic idea of Dr. Andrulis’ framework is that all physical reality can be modeled by a single geometric entity with life-like characteristics: the gyre. The so-called “gyromodel” depicts objects—particles, atoms, chemicals, molecules, and cells—as quantized packets of energy and matter that cycle between excited and ground states around a singularity, the gyromodel’s center. A singularity is itself modeled as a gyre, wholly compatible with the thermodynamic and fractal nature of life. An example of this nested, self-similar organization is the Russian Matryoshka doll.

http://case.edu/medicus/breakingnews/theoryoflife.html



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An accompanying text Theory of the Origin, Evolution, and Nature of Life can be found here:

http://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/2/1/1/

Abstract: Life is an inordinately complex unsolved puzzle. Despite significant theoretical progress, experimental anomalies, paradoxes, and enigmas have revealed paradigmatic limitations. Thus, the advancement of scientific understanding requires new models that resolve fundamental problems. Here, I present a theoretical framework that economically fits evidence accumulated from examinations of life. This theory is based upon a straightforward and non-mathematical core model and proposes unique yet empirically consistent explanations for major phenomena including, but not limited to, quantum gravity, phase transitions of water, why living systems are predominantly CHNOPS (carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur), homochirality of sugars and amino acids, homeoviscous adaptation, triplet code, and DNA mutations. The theoretical framework unifies the macrocosmic and microcosmic realms, validates predicted laws of nature, and solves the puzzle of the origin and evolution of cellular life in the universe.

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by Omni connexae! (here)
Erik Andrulis, PhD, assistant professor of molecular biology and microbiology, advanced his controversial framework in his manuscript “Theory of the Origin, Evolution, and Nature of Life,” published in the peer-reviewed journal, Life.

Another forum member has independently noticed this paper. See this thread: Denial and the fate of human kind .

[David Trd1]

And they`ve only realized this now!!!!!!!

[Tony]

There are some people who think the earth is more important than the population living on it.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=TzEEgtOFFlM

[Fred Steeves]

Yes, our planet is a live, sentient being, I've experienced her consciousness first hand myself. One of the most powerful and amazing experiences of my life. Imagine what a different world we would live in, if children were taught basic things just like this, as a matter of due course?

This has nothing what so ever to do with Agenda 21 by the way.

Cheers,
Fred

[Tony]

This is part of The Green agenda...Gaia's Gurus, from a web site called The Green agenda.

Maurice Strong, founder and Secretary General of the United Nations Environment Programme and Senior Advisor to Kofi Annan. Founder of the Earth Council and the Earth Charter Initiative, and former President of the United Nations University of Peace. You will find many references to Maurice Strong on this site. He, more than anyone else, has been the architect of the Global Green Agenda. Strong is a devout Baha'i and from his lofty positions within the UN has permeated the organisation with Gaian theology.

He is the author of most of the key UN environmental policies and plans including Agenda 21, the Earth Charter, the Kyoto Protocol and the UN report on Global Governance. While he chaired the Rio Earth Summit, outside his wife Hanne and 300 followers called the Wisdom-Keepers, continuously beat drums, chanted prayers to Gaia, and trended scared flames in order to "establish and hold the energy field" for the duration of the summit. You can view actual footage of these ceremonies on YouTube. He founded the Manitou Institue where various Hindu, Bhuddist, and New Age groups perform rituals to heal Gaia. The Institutes Mission is "to perpetuate the ancient tradition of peoples of many tribes journeying here for a sacred connection to the Earth." Very Gaian!!

The Strongs have located their spiritual centre in the Colorado mountains because "The Strongs learned that since antiquity indigenous peoples had revered this pristine wilderness as a place for conducting their vision quests and receiving shamanic trainings. It is prophesied that the world's religious traditions would gather here and help move the world toward globally conscious co-existence and co-creation."

"It is the responsibility of each human being today to choose between the force of darkness and the force of light. We must therefore transform our attitudes, and adopt a renewed respect for the superior laws of DIVINE NATURE." - Maurice Strong

In 1991 Strong wrote the introduction to a book published by the Trilateral Commission, called Beyond Interdependence: The Meshing of the World's Economy and the Earth's Ecology, by Jim MacNeil. (David Rockefeller wrote the foreword). Strong said this: "This interlocking is the new reality of the century, with profound implications for the shape of our institutions of governance, national and international. By the year 2012, these changes must be fully integrated into our economic and political life."




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[Spiral]

Just how many scientists are on whopping grants to point out the bleedin' obvious ?

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=qsPb8e7USqI

[Prodigal Son]

Who can forget the Chiffon Margarine commercials... "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature". The world met Gaia and didn't realize it, although she's a lot nicer than that biotch

It's both encouraging and ironic to observe science catching up with ancient wisdom...

[Tony]

Whatever one believes, it will be mucked around with.

[RMorgan]

Earth is alive and we´re plaguing it like scabies, or worse, like a cancer.

Soon enough, if we don´t change our destructive behavior, Earth´s immune system, often called "Mother Nature", will find a way to get rid of us.

We´re totally out of control; All of us, not only the bankers and the corporations.

[WhiteFeather]

The Animals and all of life forms on this planet took a vote and would like our destructive species to leave forthwith, they do not appreciate our company any longer,, as we are the only species that are literally destroying their planet and their way of life,,,,,,think of that for a moment!!!!

Mother Earth Is Alive, as she is a living organism as everything else on this planet and throughout the multiverse....

Enjoy

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=BaMBQSsdnxo

[Kiforall]

Posted by David Trd1 (here)
And they`ve only realized this now!!!!!!!

How long before everyone realizes it. Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock?

[gooty64]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=LLrTPrp-fW8

Posted by Prodigal Son (here)
Who can forget the Chiffon Margarine commercials... "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature". The world met Gaia and didn't realize it, although she's a lot nicer than that biotch

It's both encouraging and ironic to observe science catching up with ancient wisdom...

[Pam]

As strange as it may sound it is possible to actually visualize the movement of these little units which is referred to as a gyro in the above article.I learned the technique that allows one to do this as a nurse. The training is called "therapeutic touch" which is a form of energy healing technique. The easiest way to do it is as follows-

Lie on the ground outside and look at a clear blue sky. Do not focus your eyes, do not engage in the mental clutter of the mind...It may take several attempts..they can be seen as a swirling dancing movement and some of the units can be experienced as a definite circle with a black dot in the center...being able to see this has added an element of wonder to my life and of course it gives credence to the work of Dr. Andrulis...I understand many will think this ridiculous as these units could not be experienced by the naked eye, others may say it is eye floaters-but I say don't judge it till you try it...

with loving thoughts sent to you, Pammy

[rgray222]

The earth and the universe are very much alive, it may not be in a way that we commonly think of living things but when you consider our planet and the vastness of the universe it becomes apparent pretty quick. Here is a press release from University of Maryland, did not save the link only the press release.

COLLEGE PARK, Md. Is Earth really a sort of giant living organism as the Gaia hypothesis predicts? A new discovery made at the University of Maryland may provide a key to answering this question. This key of sulfur could allow scientists to unlock hidden interactions between ocean organisms, atmosphere, and land -- interactions that might provide evidence supporting this famous theory.

The Gaia hypothesis -- first articulated by James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis in the 1970s -- holds that Earth's physical and biological processes are inextricably connected to form a self-regulating, essentially sentient, system.

One of the early predictions of this hypothesis was that there should be a sulfur compound made by organisms in the oceans that was stable enough against oxidation in water to allow its transfer to the air. Either the sulfur compound itself, or its atmospheric oxidation product, would have to return sulfur from the sea to the land surfaces. The most likely candidate for this role was deemed to be dimethylsulfide.

Newly published work done at the University of Maryland by first author Harry Oduro, together with UMD geochemist James Farquharand marine biologist Kathryn Van Alstyne of Western Washington University, provides a tool for tracing and measuring the movement of sulfur through ocean organisms, the atmosphere and the land in ways that may help prove or disprove the controversial Gaia theory. Their study appears in this week's Online Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

According to Oduro and his colleagues, this work presents the first direct measurements of the isotopic composition of dimethylsulfide and of its precursor dimethylsulfoniopropionate. These measurements reveal differences in the isotope ratios of these two sulfur compounds that are produced by macroalga and phytoplankton. These measurements (1) are linked to the compounds' metabolism by these ocean organisms and (2) carry implications for tracking dimethylsulfide emissions from the ocean to the atmosphere.

Sulfur, the tenth most abundant element in the universe, is part of many inorganic and organic compounds. Sulfur cycles sulfur through the land, atmosphere and living things and plays critical roles in both climate and in the health of organisms and ecosystems.

"Dimethylsulfide emissions play a role in climate regulation through transformation to aerosols that are thought to influence the earth's radiation balance," says Oduro, who conducted the research while completing a Ph.D. in geology & earth system sciences at Maryland and now is a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "We show that differences in isotopic composition of dimethylsulfide may vary in ways that will help us to refine estimates of its emission into the atmosphere and of its cycling in the oceans."

As with many other chemical elements, sulfur consists of different isotopes. All isotopes of an element are characterized by having the same number of electrons and protons but different numbers of neutrons. Therefore, isotopes of an element are characterized by identical chemical properties, but different mass and nuclear properties. As a result, it can be possible for scientists to use unique combinations of an element's radioactive isotopes as isotopic signatures through which compounds with that element can be traced.

"What Harry did in this research was to devise a way to isolate and measure the sulfur isotopic composition of these two sulfur compounds," says Farquhar, a professor in the University of Maryland's department of geology. "This was a very difficult measurement to do right, and his measurements revealed an unexpected variability in an isotopic signal that appears to be related to the way the sulfur is metabolized.
"Harry's work establishes that we should expect to see variability in the sulfur isotope signatures of these compounds in the oceans under different environmental conditions and for different organisms. I think this will ultimately be very important for using isotopes to trace the cycling of these compounds in the surface oceans as well as the flux of dimethylsulfide to the atmosphere. The ability to do this could help us answer important climate questions, and ultimately better predict climate changes. And it may even help us to better trace connections between dimethylsulfide emissions and sulfate aerosols, ultimately testing a coupling in the Gaia hypothesis," Farquhar says.


Source; Press Release University of Maryland

[conk]

Maurice Strong and his ilk will use the supposed love of Mother Earth to control world resources and impose tax, after tax, after tax on us all through his UN connections. Beware the Green crowd.

[Mark]

Hello, Peterpam, it's definitely not eye-floaters or even scheerer's phenomenon.

Thanks to your comment here it puts it in a different perspective. I think I've seen what you're talking about. After staring at the blue sky, in the center of vision a vortex appears. The outer edges and the inner slope of the vortex is made up of swirling patterns, I've thought of them as almost chess-board-like in nature, but moving continuously. The patterning of the vortex is a darker color against the blue sky. If you change the focus of your eyes, it disappears, but can return if you again fixate upon one spot.

I equate it to learning how to look at a stereogram. Once you learn how to shift the focus of your eyes, you can bring the vortex into view relatively quickly.

How is this related to "therapeutic touch"? I've heard of that in the past but have never looked into it.

It would speak to the intuitive and natural aspect of this theory if what we were seeing was indeed some aspect of the gyres in motion. Bless.

[Chester]

I am alive and I connect with all that is and thus I conclude all is alive which includes the Earth.
Who knows - justone

[•Ik•]

A buddy of mine at another forum informed me that some of my work was being discussed here and that I would be among many like-minded individuals here, so I asked to join.

I hope I can add a little to the conversation.

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There are many good comments in this thread. Before I address each of them, I just wanted to introduce myself and give you insight into how I got into theory.

I am a molecular biologist/cell biologist/geneticist/biochemist. I have trained in the model systems Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Drosophila melanogaster for ~20 years, and those are the two systems I use to study basic biological problems.

When I arrived at my faculty position, I began work to understand a set of enzymes called ribonucleases (RNases), proteins that degrade or process RNA exonucleolytically (from one end of the RNA) or endonucleolytically (within the body of the RNA). One major intellectual gap in the field when I entered it was how these RNases functioned in vivo, that is, where they localized in the cell, how their activity was regulated as a consequence of cell cycle progression, their post-translational modifications and how they assembled into function protein complexes.

I'm aware that's a mouthful, but more to come.

Anyhoo, it turned out that one of these proteins had a whole bunch of domains that were interesting from a bioinformatic standpoint. So, I started making point-directed mutants and truncations of the protein and putting them into cells to see where these localized, how they interacted with cellular proteins, etc. That's when the surprises started happening.

You see, I could make the cell do the craziest things, as many of the mutant proteins had dominant-negative effects. Some caused cells to arrest in cytokinesis, others caused premature chromosome condensation (an uncoupling of cell cycle found in cancers). Others fiddled with microtubules, cell size, nucleocytoplasmic transport, mitochondrial DNA maintenance, and de novo membrane synthesis.

Basically, the gist is that my enzyme could control the cell. How is that possible, I asked myself? No one is going to believe that one protein can do all of this!

And that's when I realized that it wasn't the protein, I surmised it was the substrate: RNA. By perturbing the RNA--->NMP (Where NMP = AMP, GMP, CMP, UMP) reaction, you could wreak havoc on all aspects of the cell. Indeed, when I looked at the literature, I found one peculiar, unsolved finding that defied explanation: ATP was involved in all major signalling pathways, GTP in translation and transport, CTP in lipid metabolism, and UTP in carbohydrate metabolism. In other words, those 4 nucleotides represent the 4 major control pathways of the cell. So, RNA was the key that unlocked the veritable theoretical door for me.

So, after examining the central dogma and found all of the flaws (more about this for those interested), I began making models. So, instead of DNA goes to RNA goes to protein, I was able to uncover the appropriate order and positioning of these important components within all living cells. That is, ribogyre <--> aminogyre <--> genogyre.

Little did I realize that I would end up modeling life, let alone modeling the universe.

Let alone: modeling my self.

Peace on Earth,

Ik

[DeDukshyn]

Posted by pie'n'eal (here)
There are some people who think the earth is more important than the population living on it.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=TzEEgtOFFlM

Who's to say there's a distinction behind the Being that is projecting Earth and the Being(s) projecting its "Life"? Food for thought!!