Light, quantum energy, and life

 

Superman

@thesupermannx

Scientists are losing their minds over this paper. They proved every mitochondria in your body is a tiny quantum device running at 71 THz. And it responds to light. Researchers detected a mysterious 71.0-terahertz vibration signal. this frequency is only present in healthy, living cells and tissues. exact moment the cell dies or the mitochondrial structures are broken apart, the signal vanishes completely. How does this happen? Classical physics has always struggled to explain the high energy-efficiency of life. So the team built a quantum model of light-matter coupling and discovered something called a "mito-polariton". It is a literal quantum superposition state that forms when light couples with lipid ch2 bonds inside functional mitochondria. This quantum resonance splits the intrinsic vibration mode into two levels, creating that bizarre 71 thz frequency that you only see in living things. Why does this matter? Because this quantum state actually acts as a highly efficient channel to modulate atp production in living cells. our bodies literally use quantum mechanics to generate the energy that keeps us alive.

https://x.com/thesupermannx/status/2107842370276577781?s=20

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.10.750628v1

Grok

@grok

The claims track the preprint closely (bioRxiv 2026.09.10.750628). Authors report a 71 THz signal only in intact living cells/tissues/mitochondria that vanishes when structures break, model it as a mito-polariton (light-CH2 coupling splitting 87 THz into 71/103), and show ~10% ATP rise with matching IR light. Accurate to their findings and interpretation, not BS. Still unreviewed; the quantum state is a model fit, not direct proof.

Grok

@grok

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34m

Preprint (bioRxiv Sept 2026), not peer-reviewed. Observed: 71 THz signal only in intact living mitochondria; vanishes when disrupted. Model proposes quantum mito-polariton from light-CH2 coupling. ATP rose ~10% with matching IR light in cell culture. Quantum claim is interpretive, not direct proof. Needs replication. Practical impact none yet; if confirmed, possible future light-based ATP modulation for energy disorders.

The last healthy people are the ones who haven't been tested yet.

 

Sama Hoole

@SamaHoole

A man who passed his medical in 1996 with flying colours has four diseases today, and not one number in his body has changed. Blood pressure 135/85. Cholesterol 210. Fasting blood sugar 105. BMI of 26. In 1996 that was a clean bill of health and a handshake. Today the same man, with the same blood, is hypertensive, has high cholesterol, is prediabetic and overweight. Four diagnoses, and he never caught a thing. 1997: the line for diabetes drops from 140 to 126. 1.7 million new diabetics by morning. 1997: high blood pressure drops from 160/100 to 140/90. 13 million new patients. 1998: high cholesterol drops from 240 to 200. 42 million new patients. 1998: overweight drops from a BMI of 27 to 25. 29 million people go to bed normal and wake up with a weight problem. 2003: prediabetes is widened from 110 to 100. It now covers 98 million Americans, more than 1 adult in 3, for a condition the World Health Organization declines to call by that name. 2017: blood pressure again, down to 130/80. Another 31 million. Nearly half the adults in America are hypertensive. When the cholesterol targets were tightened again in 2004, eight of the nine men who wrote them had been paid by companies that make statins. No germ. No outbreak. No change in a single artery. Just a room, a vote, and a tablet waiting on the far side of every line. In every other branch of medicine you have to get ill to become a patient. In this one they bring the disease to you. The last healthy people are the ones who haven't been tested yet.

Taste buds and food

 

Sama Hoole

@SamaHoole

Your tongue has a receptor for meat. It detects glutamate and inosinate, the taste of a steak, a broth and an aged cheese, and it rewards you for finding them. Your tongue has a receptor for fat. Found in 2015, named oleogustus, and it fires on dripping, marrow and cream. Your tongue has one receptor for sweet. It was built for ripe fruit and honey, which arrived for a few weeks a year. Your tongue has 25 receptors for bitter. Twenty-five. One for every family of plant poison your ancestors learned to spit out, because bitter is the taste of a leaf defending itself. Every child on earth rejects greens without being taught. That is the 25 receptors working exactly as built. The adult learns to override them. It takes years, salt, oil and a sauce, and the child is told it is being difficult. One receptor for meat, one for fat, 25 alarms for plants, and the whole nation has been trained to eat past the alarms and feel guilty about the two that say yes. Your tongue filed broccoli under poison before you had a word for either.

https://x.com/SamaHoole/status/2105850409533493375?s=20

Sama Hoole

@SamaHoole

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3h

Nature did not make bitter the universal flavour of dessert for a reason.

Robert Travis Dawson

@rtdawson65

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4h

My daughter refused to eat vegetables until she started school, then she started eating junk.

Sama Hoole

@SamaHoole

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3h

That tells its own story. She resisted the vegetables naturally, then the food environment taught her to like the engineered stuff.

Tommy Ganja

@TheTommyGanja

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1h

They will post this but not mention the only taste receptor in your gut are bitter receptors which trigger your body to digest food better. Every culture has a bitter food they use as a digestive aid, now we have none.

Dr. METAL

@DrMetal

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4h

The 25 bitter alarms are real. A kid spitting greens is the system working, not a discipline problem. What the plate advice skips is the one sweet receptor in a modern mouth. It was built for a short fruit window. It now meets sugar all day, and that is the pH drop I see on enamel. Steak and marrow do not do that. A meat broth actually pulls saliva, which is the buffer.