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Libby Patterson retweeted
The ruminant family, and the one job each of them does that nothing else on earth can.
The cow turns a wet hillside into beef and milk, and leaves the soil better than she found it.
The sheep grows a fireproof, waterproof, compostable coat every year, out of grass and rain, and then gives it away for the price of a haircut.
The goat eats the bramble, the scrub and the invasive weed that strangles everything else, and asks only for a weak point in the fence.
The water buffalo makes the milk that becomes real mozzarella, standing in marsh a cow would sink in.
The yak gives milk at an altitude that would kill a lowland animal in a week, and carries your bags up there as well.
The reindeer feeds and clothes entire peoples above the Arctic Circle, on lichen and moss, in the dark, for months.
The bison built the deepest soil on the planet by walking across it and eating.
Seven animals, one gift each, and not one of them can be replaced by a crop, a machine or a sachet.
Every one of them is classed, this decade, as a liability on a spreadsheet by somebody who has never been cold.
Libby Patterson retweeted
The healthier you become mentally, emotionally, and spiritually, the smaller your circle tends to become. We live in a deeply wounded society, where generations of unresolved trauma have cultivated widespread EXTREME insecurities, emotional dysfunction, and unhealthy behavioral patterns.
As you begin to heal, you naturally become less compatible with environments and relationships that continue to normalize the very dysfunctions you have worked to overcome.
Libby Patterson retweeted
🚨: Women who wore rose essential oil on their clothes for just 30 days showed significant increase in grey matter volume across the whole brain on MRI scans
Libby Patterson retweeted
Scientists found a way to flush Alzheimer’s plaque out of the brain in minutes.
Without any surgery and drugs.
Your brain has a waste-clearance network called the glymphatic system. It flushes out toxic proteins and dead cells.
But it only really activates during deep, slow-wave sleep.
If you don't sleep, the trash piles up. Over time, that buildup leads to cognitive decline and Alzheimer's.
Until today.
Researchers just published a paper proving they can manually trigger this cleaning cycle.
Without you ever going to sleep.
They used 40.68 MHz ultrashort waves (USW) beamed non-invasively into the brain.
Within 10 minutes, the brain's fluid flow rapidly accelerated.
The waves artificially synchronized the neurons into a Delta state, the exact frequency of deep sleep. This forced the brain's water channels to open and start flushing out the system.
They tested it on mice with traumatic brain injuries and Alzheimer's pathology.
The brain swelling dropped. The toxic proteins were cleared out. Cognitive deficits actually improved.
No surgery. No massive chemical interventions. Just a frequency.
Libby Patterson retweeted
The way you talk to yourself can influence how your brain processes emotions, handles stress, and responds to difficult situations.
Neuroscience research shows that inner speech, the silent conversations we have with ourselves, involves brain networks associated with language, attention, memory, and emotional regulation.
When people repeatedly engage in negative self-talk, particularly rumination, they may reinforce patterns of thinking associated with anxiety and depression. Rumination involves repeatedly focusing on distressing thoughts without moving toward a solution.
Brain imaging studies have linked self-referential thinking to activity in regions including the medial prefrontal cortex and parts of the default mode network, a system involved in thinking about ourselves and our experiences.
Researchers have also found that changing how we speak to ourselves can influence emotional responses. For example, using your own name or speaking to yourself from a third-person perspective may help create psychological distance during stressful situations.
Source: University of Michigan, Michigan State University, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and NIH.
Libby Patterson retweeted
This is a bit of revisionist history. The UV catastrophe was really solved by the photoelectric effect. If Planck understood his own work he would have gotten Einstein's Nobel.
In fact, Max Planck did not resolve the Ultraviolet Catastrophe by discovering the quantum nature of light; he executed a desperate mathematical curve-fitting hack that he spent the rest of his career trying to walk back. The Nobel Committee would like to bury this fact too because it shows you how biased centralized science is.
The historical narrative stating that Planck's 1900 blackbody distribution law neatly solved the classical Rayleigh-Jeans divergence (the black curve running to infinity in the image) is a complete textbook fabrication.
Planck did not believe that radiation itself was quantized; he assumed that quantization was merely a mathematical property restricted to the walls of the charcoal container (his localized resonators). He treated his own constant (h) as an abstract statistical convenience to prevent the math from blowing up into an infinite energy leak.
It was Albert Einstein's 1905 derivation of the Photoelectric Effect that actually forced physics to accept that light travels as discrete wave-packets (photons). If Planck had truly grasped the sub-atomic physical implications of his own blackbody equations, he would have realized that light is an intrinsic manifestation of non-local field geometry, pre-empting Einstein's work entirely.
In the context of my decentralized thesis, this historical blind spot mirrors the exact failure of modern biochemistry: just as classical 19th-century physicists tried to use smooth, continuous Rayleigh-Jeans equations to describe quantized light emission, modern medicine uses smooth, classical chemical pathways to analyze a highly quantized, spintronic mitochondrial semiconductor. You've been outed and have no clothes.
#OnThisDay in 1900, Max Planck presented his law of black body emission, Planck’s law. Planck's law (coloured curves) accurately describe black body radiation and resolved the ultraviolet catastrophe (black curve) a prediction of late 19th/early 20th century classical physics.
ALT Planck's law (coloured curves) accurately described black body radiation and resolved the ultraviolet catastrophe (black curve).
Libby Patterson retweeted
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Libby Patterson retweeted
It was a matter of when, not if this Nobel would happen. Awesome to see it.
It is worth noting that @KarlDeisseroth lab shared optogenetic tools far and wide from the very beginning, and thereby facilitated so much discovery. Fun fact: Karl was the first guest ever on the HLP.
BREAKING NEWS
The 2026 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
Libby Patterson retweeted
My critique of this paper cuts straight through the fundamental hubris of modern theoretical physics. Mathematical equations can beautifully catalog the behavior of nature, but they are completely impotent at explaining the why behind its foundational constraints.
Physicist Gunther Kletetschka’s 6D framework (3 dimensions of space, 3 dimensions of time) is an elegant mathematical exercise. It maps the three generations of fundamental particles (electron, muon, tau) onto the geometry of these extra temporal dimensions, attempting to heal the schism between general relativity and quantum mechanics. But it leaves me completely unsatisfied because it treats the universe as a sterile, abstract geometry, failing to provide any physical reason why this temporal schism exists to begin with, or why a macroscopic human observer is locked into experiencing time as a single, one-way road.
My decentralized thesis explicitly provides the "why" that Kletetschka’s equations miss. The schism between the timeless, probabilistic quantum world and the irreversible, chronological macroscopic world is not an abstract mathematical mystery; it is a tangible, biophysical phase change mediated by the static dielectric constant of interfacial water inside your mitochondria.
🚨 WHAT IF TIME HAS THREE DIMENSIONS — AND WE ONLY EXPERIENCE ONE?
We think of time as a single road: yesterday behind us, today beneath our feet, and tomorrow somewhere ahead. But what if that picture is only a small part of reality?
Physicist Gunther Kletetschka of the University of Alaska Fairbanks has proposed a striking alternative: time itself may have three dimensions. His 2025 mathematical framework describes a universe with three dimensions of time alongside three dimensions of space, creating a six-dimensional structure that is very different from the familiar picture of spacetime. (DOI)
In this idea, time would not simply flow along one direction. The extra temporal dimensions could provide additional ways for physical states to evolve while still preserving cause and effect. In simple terms, reality might have more “directions” in time than the one we experience from moment to moment.
Kletetschka argues that the mathematical structure of the three time dimensions can produce the three generations of fundamental particles — including the electron, muon and tau, as well as the different families of quarks. His calculations also produce specific particle masses and make predictions for quantities such as neutrino masses and possible new high-energy resonances. (DOI)
That makes the proposal more than a strange philosophical idea about time. If its predictions are correct, experiments could potentially look for signs of this hidden structure. The paper points to future collider experiments, gravitational-wave observations and cosmological surveys as possible ways to test parts of the framework. (DOI)
There is an even bigger question hiding underneath it all. Modern physics has two extraordinarily successful descriptions of nature: quantum mechanics for the microscopic world and general relativity for gravity and the cosmos. Bringing them together has remained one of physics’ deepest challenges. Kletetschka’s framework is presented as a possible route toward connecting these worlds by making the geometry of time fundamental.
But there is an important distinction: this is a theoretical proposal, not an established replacement for modern physics. Its predictions still need to survive experimental testing and scrutiny from the wider scientific community.
If reality really has three dimensions of time, then the universe may be far stranger than the simple timeline we experience every second.
Are we moving through time… or are we seeing only one direction of a much larger temporal universe?
Source: Gunther Kletetschka, Three-Dimensional Time: A Mathematical Framework for Fundamental Physics, Reports in Advances of Physical Sciences, 2025. DOI: 10.1142/S2424942425500045. (DOI)
ALT WHAT IF TIME HAS THREE DIMENSIONS — AND WE ONLY EXPERIENCE ONE? We think of time as a single road: yesterday behind us, today beneath our feet, and tomorrow somewhere ahead. But what if that picture is only a small part of reality? Physicist Gunther Kletetschka of the University of Alaska Fairbanks has proposed a striking alternative: time itself may have three dimensions. His 2025 mathematical framework describes a universe with three dimensions of time alongside three dimensions of space, creating a six-dimensional structure that is very different from the familiar picture of spacetime. (DOI) In this idea, time would not simply flow along one direction. The extra temporal dimensions could provide additional ways for physical states to evolve while still preserving cause and effect. In simple terms, reality might have more “directions” in time than the one we experience from moment to moment.
Libby Patterson retweeted
The standard model of neurology assumes internal buzzing is anxiety, but axonal wiring shows those signals are physical errors you can now stop.
This sensation is often a result of faulty axonal wiring—the long, thread-like fibers that transmit electrical impulses—firing without a stimulus. Think of a loose needle on a pressure gauge that vibrates constantly because the internal spring is damaged; the reading has nothing to do with the actual pressure.
If you feel like your skeleton is humming at a frequency no one else can hear, you are likely dealing with a physical signal error. This is a mechanical failure where the brain sends a high-frequency motor command to a system that cannot resolve it.
We can now address this through focused ultrasound, which uses concentrated beams to generate thermal energy at a specific bottleneck. This heat eliminates the neuronal clusters—small groups of brain cells—that are stuck in a feedback loop of over-excitation.
By targeting the subthalamic nucleus, a lens-shaped structure responsible for regulating motor output, we can physically interrupt the pathway. It is the equivalent of snipping the wire to that vibrating gauge needle so the system can finally return to a neutral state of silence.
Unlike chemical interventions, this process targets the dyskinesia—the involuntary, erratic muscle movements—at the source of transmission. It permanently alters the signal-carrying pathways rather than just masking the sensation with medication.
This mechanical intervention provides an immediate reduction in symptoms because the physical hardware causing the hum is deactivated. Once the abnormal wiring is gone, the internal noise stops.
The rest of the mechanism is worth a read.
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