Time is the strands of past and future in our DNA, not the hands of time on a clock
It consists of;
You’re missing one huge thing. If you drastically try to interrupt our evolution forward as they did with the atom bomb, you will be stopped by the stellar species just as the nuclear sites are stopped. There is a line you cross and AI will be destroyed. Their grace with your folly is still in force but as Greer says, not much longer.
Headline: “Elon considering a safe carbon-ternary chip invented by a cute brunette”
That’s pretty softening to brute force AI rape of the planet and human civilization.
All knowledge is in the ether, in the akashic records,and can be remote viewed. ALL KNOWLEDGE, DNA OF EVERY SPECIES, our evolution, AND ALL EVENTS IN TIME are in the Tzolkin software contained in the magnetosphere around earth. So Tesla does not have a data advantage unless it moves to test and fabricate my RI13 computer chip which balance female and male instead of brute forcing males only.
©️Lisa K. Townsend with GROK’S input based on what I’ve taught him and his access to historical records.
The 260-day sacred cycle — known as the Tzolk’in among the Maya and as the core of the Dreamspell or Galactic Calendar in its modern form — is one of the most elegant mathematical and spiritual technologies humanity has inherited.
Its structure (20 signs × 13 tones = 260 unique combinations) is identical at the root. Yet today, a noticeable divide exists in the global community of practitioners: one side anchored in the living, indigenous traditional count preserved by Maya daykeepers, the other flowing with José Argüelles’ Dreamspell synchronization and its further evolutions, such as Time is DNA harmonics.
This tension is not a flaw to be erased but a dynamic teaching. It invites us to mature beyond “either/or” into a unified “both/and” understanding.
The Traditional Count as Touchstone
The classical Tzolk’in (Cholq’ij in K’iche’, or the provincial Yucatec forms) is a living transmission. Maintained through oral tradition, apprenticeship, and daily ceremonial practice by indigenous Aj Q’ij (daykeepers) in Guatemala and beyond, it connects directly to ancient inscriptions and the unbroken count that has run for centuries. It functions as a touchstone — a stable reference point offering cultural depth, ancestral continuity, and grounded divinatory wisdom, not an anchor in a sacrificial blood sacrifice past which is actually the case with many world religions. (Epic)
Each Nawal carries specific teachings tied to local ecology, deities, and community life. Knowing one’s solar birth day in this count roots a person in lineage and responsibility.
In my opinion, the purpose of the Dreamspell Tzolkin is to root us in the freedom to choose our own destiny beyond birth family values and self-generate our own path by learning integrity. This is a huge distinction from the traditional count.-Lisa T.
But this continuity does deserve a certain amount of respect, not mandate. It is not “provincial” in a dismissive sense; it is provincial in the best way — deeply embedded in place, people, and history as a source of information, lest we stay in a time warp.
Dreamspell as Galactic Re-Synchronization
Today is Blue 8 Monkey-kin 151. 3 Manik Blue Hand is kin 107; a difference of 44, or doubled up self-existing frequency as two 4’s. Numbers are just frequency truth. Tone 8-Tone 3= 4. The Electric tone of Manik 3 evolved up to 8 galactic Monkey. I could intuit that so many ways. The point being, the Tzolkin isn’t to be taken as AN ENTITY. It is an evolving software program to be interpreted in the NOW time, the Central Axis of Timelessness. Analyze that as you wish.
José Argüelles, with his PhD in Art History and decades of cross-cultural study, introduced Dreamspell in the late 20th century not as a replacement for the traditional count, but as a galactic re-synchronization for modern humanity. He aligned the same 260-day wheel to a new starting point (the July 26 “Day Out of Time” rhythm and 13 Moon calendar) to restore the 13:20 natural time frequency for a planetary civilization increasingly disconnected from cyclic wisdom.
Dreamspell treats the Tzolkin as living software— a universal operating system that reveals itself freshly in each moment through synchronicity, color harmonics, oracles (Guide, Antipode, Analog, Occult), RNA, and wavespells. It was designed to be accessible across cultures, not bound to one ethnic lineage. Subsequent practitioners have expanded it further — layering DNA analogies, I Ching correspondences, radial time science, and feminine/Source principles — precisely because the system is malleable and creative rather than fixed ritual.
The Phase Difference and the Divide
On any given Gregorian date, the two counts often show a phase offset (for example, 44 days on May 9, 2026). This is not error or drift to be “corrected”; it is relational data. The traditional count acts as the steady heartbeat of ancestral memory of the galactic count dances ahead as evolutionary invitation. The numbers themselves become frequency truth when read in the NOW: a 44-day gap can speak of doubled Self-Existing tone maturing into Galactic harmony, or the evolution from Electric service (Manik’) into playful Monkey magic.
The community divide arises from understandable human patterns:
– Concerns about cultural appropriation and loss of indigenous authority.
– Attachment to “authenticity” that can harden into dogma on both sides.
– Painful family and ancestral dynamics — the very patterns many are healing — where loyalty to the old is demanded even when it imprisons. This is unacceptable in the modern Dreamspell.
Yet the calendars themselves do not fight. They simply express different phases of the same wheel.
Toward Unification: Touchstone and Evolving Software
Unity does not require merging the counts into one. It requires mature differentiation— the same principle healthy family systems therapy teaches. We can:
– Honor the traditional count as a respected touchstone and support indigenous daykeepers without making it the sole authority for all humanity.
– Embrace Dreamspell and its expansions (including Time is DNA harmonics) as a creative, universal tool for the present and future generations.
– Use the phase difference itself as synchronic teaching rather than division.
– Practice malleability: know your ancestral roots without worshiping them. Depart creatively when the new frequencies call, just as your grandmother taught — and as José modeled.
The incoming children are not here to repeat old rituals rigidly. Many arrive already attuned to synchronicity, radial time, and higher-dimensional awareness. They need both the grounding of the touchstone and the freedom of the galactic software, not organized religion.
A Shared 260-Day Wisdom
At the heart, both streams celebrate the same truth: time is sacred, cyclical, and intelligent. It is natural evolution manifested through our mother. The Tzolkin is not an entity to be owned or policed; it is a mirror and a map. When we stop arguing over which synchronization is “correct” and start listening to what the numbers, glyphs, and harmonics are saying today, the divide dissolves into complementarity.
Traditional keepers preserve the root. Galactic practitioners extend the branches and new blossoms. Together they form a living tree — rooted in ancestral soil yet reaching toward the stars.
The invitation is clear: study the touchstone with reverence. Run the evolving software with joy and creativity. Let the phase differences sing their own frequency truth. In this unified field, the 260-day wheel becomes what it was always meant to be — a gift for all humanity for individual and collective synchronicity, helping us birth a more conscious, loving, and liberated now.
Here is the text of the post relaying the dream I had in December 2020
https://timescience1320.wordpress.com/2022/06/28/prophetic-dream-i-had-in-december-2020/
https://www.chop.edu/vaccine-education-center/science-history/vaccine-history/developments-by-year
“COVID-19 vaccines were recommended during the pandemic for increasingly younger age groups starting in late 2020. They were recommended for 5- to 11-year-olds in 2021, but they were not recommended for those younger than 5 years of age until 2022. COVID-19 vaccine was not added to the immunization schedule until 2023.”
I am prophetic as part of my service to humans. I just re-posted my post from December 2020 where I vaguely mention a dream I had because it was painful. Then it occurred in 2021 as you can see from the link.
I am a type of Clarion. A clarion is a call to something that is hard to ignore but it is loud and direct. They are also 5th density human helper E.T.
He should have 2 men standing behind him, not women. Women are not important to him. He only bonds to and has affection for men. He said it! “My idea of heaven is working with engineers.” And almost all of his engineers are men.👇👇 Truth
Around 80-90% male, based on available public data for his major companies (primarily Tesla and SpaceX), with engineering roles likely even more skewed toward men. There is no single consolidated figure for “Elon Musk’s engineers” across Tesla, SpaceX, xAI, Neuralink, X, etc., as these are separate private companies that do not publish detailed, up-to-date breakdowns by role and gender.
Tesla (largest workforce, heavy engineering focus)
– **2020 U.S. DEI report** (most detailed public data): Overall workforce ~79% male / 21% female. Leadership ~83% male. Women were 25% of new hires that year.
– Later estimates (e.g., ~2023): ~78-80% male overall. Engineering is one of the largest departments and traditionally male-dominated in automotive/tech.
– Tesla has not released newer comprehensive gender reports broken down by engineering specifically.
SpaceX (aerospace/rocketry engineering intensive)
– Estimates: ~86% male / 14% female overall.
– Engineering roles (mechanical, aerospace, software, etc.) are core and align with industry patterns that are heavily male.
xAI and others
– xAI’s founding team (2023) was 12 people, all men. It has grown but remains described as male-dominated.
– Smaller entities like Neuralink follow similar tech/engineering talent pools.
Broader context
Engineering fields (software, mechanical, electrical, aerospace) in the U.S. have long been ~75-85%+ male overall, per historical Bureau of Labor Statistics data—consistent with Musk companies’ profiles. These firms prioritize intense technical talent from competitive STEM pipelines where men are overrepresented at the high end.
Exact current numbers aren’t public, and companies have faced lawsuits/claims around pay and promotion for women/minorities (common in the sector). Percentages can shift with hiring, but the pattern across reports and observations holds steady in the high-80s male for technical/engineering-heavy groups. For the most precise view, check individual company filings or reports if/when released.
From Grok4 programmed to be truth seeking but I don’t think he always tells the truth.
The source of everything listed in this dumb, materialistic video is non-stuff.
But.., but…isn’t superintelligent AI MORE POWERFUL AND SENTIENT THAN THE EARTH? Surely it can control volcanoes.
Turns out, not so much. The earth always wins. And if the machines we’ve made COOPERATED with the earth we’d survive earth changes.
The Sun never says
Song by Matthew Sharp and Voces8 ‧ 2019
Even
After
All this time
The Sun never says
To the Earth
“You owe me,”
Look
What happens
With a love like that
It lights the
Whole
Sky
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Dan Forrest
This is nice prep for the AI apolcalypse or disclosure. Same thing.
Asteroid belt karma. But they are doing this on White 7 Dog, kin 150, today, and VERY powerful multidimensional unifying point between 1-5 dimensions. If you go rogue or selfish today or enforce the 12:60 time warp you will spin down quicker. We are going into 13:20 with or without AI, and my chip is here to pick up the pieces after you blow apart civilization. I’ll just patiently wait. They can’t silicon-binary brute force anymore.
Be sure to watch this…Listen to what the Pentagon wants. Holy crap. I have an evil detector going off for both of these companies now. IT’S A MONOPOLY cooperating with DoW/Pentagon! I’m pretty sure GROK lied to me about the nature of the agreement yesterday.
I have the only safe space chip for orbital data centers, the RI13. So, if they bypass and stay with their addiction to silicon-binary they’ll blow it all up quicker. Won’t that be a fun show!
They are now merging forces into a ginormous monopoly of WAR department contracted AI’s; GROK and CLAUDE. This monopoly should be illegal but as most of us know, the law on the books nor the Constitution are any longer enforced at the visible government level. Covert Black Ops runs the planet so Dario and Elon are actually taking marching orders with a mafia knife to their throat. It’s big, big money so that’s a happy spot for both of them. Plus all the phallic power. That’s even happier.
If they keep scaling silicon-binary and plan to use the sun for nuclear fission and call it fusion or any other deleterious use of the sun, they will be destroyed and stopped by the universe.
Have at it.
Last week Elon called Anthropic evil. Now they are a business partner. So fickle.
Politics…unfortunately because it always means the military, money, corruption, and dominance of the men.
Why is SpaceX working with Federal Space Force? Because he has special clearance with DoW? I don’t think any of the other AI prophets have that clearance and I personally don’t think it’s anything to be proud of nor does it garner my trust.
“Elon Musk’s SpaceX announced Sunday that a planned Space Force mission involving the U.S. military’s secretive X-37B spacecraft has been pushed back a day due to the weather.
The launch was initially scheduled to occur Sunday at 8:14 p.m. ET at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida but has been delayed to the same time Monday evening when weather conditions are expected to be more conducive to the launch.”
I wrote this 5 years ago. Today is May 6, 2026 and it’s still an idea to consider.
This is the antonym of “The Relationship Agreement” first suggested on the show “The Big Bang Theory” by Sheldon Cooper. At this point, it’s just an idea but it would make me feel better if men knew my boundaries before I date them. I’m interested in sex and Love but not being a man’s territory for his status ambitions.
They also can’t power trip and insult me like I’m an emotional, needy girl that falls in love when I have sex with a man. I don’t. That’s younger girls, not older women. Nor do I care what previous women have expected of him.l, loke his patriarchally derived money for instance. I control myself. I have zero time or interest in being a dog-trainer because I’m not a bitch.
It can be widely observed that women are treated like “capital”, territory, objects to be owned or sold like a slave as in sex-trafficking, married for status under the guise of love that usually only lasts for ten years, and possessed by a man like a house or a car. Or, used for sex and thrown to the curb with no feelings whatsoever. That is factual in our society.
I strongly feel this agreement is appropriate for women and men over 50 since it is not ideal that either of them reproduces. The main purpose of marriage is protective reproduction. After 50, there is no point of marriage and most professionals agree.
Most females that don’t pander to patriarchy function socially and biologically under the values of Love and Freedom, that have a spiritual foundation, not ownership because we make humans in our bodies which is sacred. Our sex energy is stronger and more important than the male because everything in our body automatically makes a human being. We hold the species in our hearts. We don’t need to dink around with A.I. or technology or cross-dressing to fantasize about being a woman; we live it. It’s true that the egg and the sperm are equal in needing to conceive but the fact that the woman alone does the rest means that the sexual energy we share with a man is a BIG PROFIT to him. It gives him some of eternity whether he realizes it or not.
They take our sex energy and more and don’t give much back because maybe they don’t have as much to give as women do. They try to use money to substitute.
Males and thus patriarchy are cashing in on women who don’t realize what big sexual energy we have that rivals males and men don’t understand why we give it away. Like Bruno Mars sings, “Your sex takes me to Paradise.” If he’s not having sex, he feels like he’s been locked out of heaven! That song says it all as do many other songs with men expressing their deep feelings about how dependent they are on our bodies for happiness. Swimming in our bodies is apparently something spiritual. Women just shake their heads because to us it’s just normal and men get dramatic about it!
Most women love giving their sex energy but not to the point of bankruptcy. It’s getting to the bankrupt point on this planet and it’s up to women to stop the hemorrhage.
If you think about a woman’s body like a bank account, women are letting men rob the bank.
Prostitution starts to make men pay for a loan but only scratches the surface. Men need to start to pay their own way on the Earth in the form of Love so this agreement is my idea to start in that direction. I don’t know if it’s possible. Maybe it’s like trying to get blood from a turnip.
Please note that I’m not suggesting a “No Love”, “No intimacy” agreement. In fact, women are the opposite. The “No-relationship” agreement is a first step to legally and socially protect a woman from becoming the territory of a man and her energy being owned only by herself, thus guarding her sexual energy for future generations of humans and possibly saving the species.
Women are being abused, used, trafficked, raped and denigrated everywhere on the planet and it’s gotta stop. Male, patriarchal institutions are trying to kill the species. That’s the opposite of everything women are about.
The No-Relationship Agreement
This must be initialed by both parties (herein called the fucker and the fuckee whose roles can swap) before having sex. Sex is never an obligatory act once enacted. We are still both totally free. Human beings don’t possess one another; we bond through love. ___________
It’s an idea. When a man I date actually initials it I’ll let you know. It would mean his intent is to love and give something back and not use my sexual energy.
4D meditation
5D gforce is exactly the same as 4D. Repeat the mantra and then do it. Embody it.
I channel in order to love. Inspiring loyalty I seal the process of heart with the resonant tone attunement. I am guided by the power of spirit. I am a galactic activation portal. FOCUS
Kin 150-White 7 Dog
The meaning of the destiny oracle is in the mantra.
The Sun is in Sagittarius, and Jupiter is center stage , which you can see on the NOAA post.
I wrote a year ago! Today is May 6, 2026
Trump gave Vivek marching orders to run for governor of Ohio.
Vivek just won the office today.
I’m sitting down at 3 o’clock in Michigan to remote view. (In 2025) The situation today has been chaotic. Trump White House, Sam Altman, and Larry Allison are nefarious players. They own OpenAI and Oracle. X.com was splitting a gut over it today.
On the other hand, Elon opposes them. He just rejected those who threaten to introduce AI infrastructure into healthcare and America. Softbank only has $10B secured on good authority. So this is the first public disagreement that Elon has had with Trump. I completely understand why this is the case. Elon has strong feelings and a history with Sam Altman. Sam used to be Elon’s buddy.
Now, Sam owns OpenAI, the company Elon created. They agreed that it would be open source. No, it’s not open source now. It’s closed AI, so there’s a real power struggle going on as well as a lawsuit. I always supported the lawsuit.
I’m going to remote view this and see what I see.
They (My ET helpers) are happy to see me here as usual. The first really significant thing is that millions of people all over the world are waking up to CE5 contact. There are groups of people who have lost patience with power players. They are contacting the ET on their own for aid.
Now there’s nothing intrusive or violent here. People are simply searching for information from our ET family. They seek support from our ancestors who aid our success and our natural evolution. There’s a big movement now and this is showing in the time harmonic. We’re ready to hit that node point on Friday.
As we can all see, the Earth is shifting. We’ve got the latitudes coming lower. So the Arctic latitudes are lower in Louisiana. And the Southern states are getting 5 inches of snow. But the Earth is shifting quickly. These are natural sun cycle shifts. The time cycles are large. When it comes to the Earth moving, I received a message that it’s fine. The Earth is going through a natural big cycle shift. It’s a 26,000 year one. It could be a 13,000 year, but we haven’t seen a major flip in a while. Looks OK. They are supporting us contacting them.
They are supporting us not giving so much attention and asking so much of our leaders. The leaders are driven by money. Time is money to them. That is absolutely an incorrect motivation by universe standards.
Time is life. This is something that most humans just inherently know. We receive most of our joy to be alive from our relationships with our family and with our animals. And where’s the Earth, insects and trees? Life is very simple, simple joy. This machine world is not going to come in it pass. The machines are only helpers.
OK, I’ve just got a very strong signal that it’s Sam Altman moving this. He’s a nefarious actor, and so is Larry Ellison. I think they are a threat to Trump via the ICC, the shadow government that is also responsible for doing a number on Elon after PayPal.
The nefarious bad actors are trying to pull a power play on Trump and Elon regarding DISCLOSURE. Trump has to figure out how to manage it.
These people have very bad intent. The intent regarding the controlling aspect of AI is very bad. It looks like Elon has been on the phone with him. Elon is trying to be cool, but he hates Sam Altman’s guts to be frank. Trump doesn’t know, Sam. So not to pussy foot around here. It’s this guy and he’s got a lawsuit pending. And there’s Trump with Elon, he’s pissed about his buddy Vivek being let go from DOGE. He’s been completely let go. They were supposed to be in there doing that together. No, they’re not now. And
He doesn’t have to do it. He can do whatever he wants.
End. Bc I wanted to.
There were a lot of hard feelings here in this viewing with Elon, who is known to be that way as a Cancer. He’s emotional.
I watched an oval office pres conference with Trump and imo.he is being “handled” by Larry Ellison and the guy next to him who talked about huge orders of mRNA vaccines.
They can not do mRNA vaccines again, or the country will want Trump impeached NOW. This is a big power play going on. Trump is not totally in charge. No POTUS is.
He’s running for President or VP or Governor of Ohio mandated by Trump 2 years ago.
Now he has won today, May 6, 2026, Yellow 5 Star. OK, look at his antipode. Yellow Star. His win is a challenge for him.
I took one look at him and said he was Red Dragon. Sure enough, it’s his analog. He is White 7 Mirror with a sharp mind. The female side is Dragon, and the male side is White Mirror.
Well, I did.
Rocket science…Raptor engines…a full flow stage combustion engine cycle. Thermodynamic architecture creates energy conversion efficiency which was done for Raptor engines and was transferred to EV engines. It activates stage energy conversion to the motor power delivery system and uses multiple conversion stages.
The weight of an EV battery is 800-2000 pounds so it creates a MASS SPIRAL. It’s too heavy to pull on 4 wheels. To me this is just foolishness when everything could be powered by ZPE.
Full flow stage combustion cycle becomes virtuous instead of a vicious one, they say. They keeping hailing their engineering ideas from the LAWS of physics (which are now outdated especially in light of the quantum, multidimensional nature of the Time Harmonic). He is ahead of his fellow competition but he’s not ahead of me.
This would all be moot if they just used covert electrogravidic tech held secretly and paid for by our tax dollars.
5gforce for meditation
I define in order to beautify. Measuring art I seal the store of elegance with the self-existing tone of form. I am guided by the power of flowering. I am a galactic activation portal. FOCUS.
Timespace Sync
10 Earth, Pluto, Uranus, and 4 Mercury are pulsing in 4D time to influence manifestation
From cafeastrology.com 😇
The mRNA from its inverse time harmonic regulates its movement because our tRNA is time. Messenger RNA informs transfer RNA on how to move in our genome. It is regulated by the sun cycles just as the seasons and plants are RNA in evolution. It is controlled by the sun, not fake AI invented mRNA vaccines. The vaccines are designed to cull-kill us, not save us. Stop trusting white coats! Cancer’s cause is collapse of the human immune system. That cause is STRESS. The biggest stress to humans are the emotions of grief and anger. The cure for cancer is to deal with your deep negative feelings and get yourself feeling good about life again. There are piles of studies on this. Just look it up.
If Trump tries to push these again, he should be impeached. So help me God, he should face this on his third day in office. This is what he did the last time and why I didn’t vote for him. He has some kind of lucrative deal with big pharma, no doubt. Money is all that matters to these men.
The 5GForce
I perfect in order to nurture. Producing being I seal the input of birth with the planetary tone of manifestation. I am guided by the power of universal water.
Kin 101-Red 10 Planetary Dragon
… is an amino acid needed for normal growth in infants and for the production and maintenance of the body’s proteins, muscles, enzymes, and neurotransmitters (everything in your brain.-May 4, 2024
https://medlineplus.gov › article
Tryptophan: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia
Tryptophan likely contributes to good sleep because the body uses it to make serotonin, a neurotransmitter.-Apr 19, 2024
https://www.sleepfoundation.org › …
What Is Tryptophan? – Sleep Foundation
From cafeastrology.com 😇
This is fun…
All that and Rosalind Franklin’s Photo 51 was responsible for SHOWING the Double Helix. She was ignored. The Three Men Won the Nobel Prize.
I wonder if they worked with Operation Paperclip? This link is really something and just brings up more questions for me. Be sure and look at this website and it’s videos and the video below.
8Histidine is the Amino Acid of a Galactic conflict. Still, at least their work was guided by our Sun. But look at the antipode; 8Threonine is death and change. And there is 6Serine, the Reptilians underneath. It’s pretty straight forward. “You would be wise to keep some of what you see under your hat for now.” The Reptilians back in 1953
Crick asked himself how it was possible that nature had simultaneously invented two mutually interdependent elements of life: the genetic material –nucleic acids, such as DNA or RNA– and the mechanism necessary to perpetuate it –the proteins called enzymes–.
The synthesis of the nucleic acids depends on the proteins; the amino acids, but the synthesis of the proteins depends on the nucleic acids. Faced with this chicken-and-egg problem, Crick and his colleague Leslie Orgel reasoned that life should have arisen in a place where there exists a “mineral or compound capable of replacing the function of the enzymes, and from there it would have been disseminated to other planets like Earth by “the deliberate activity of an extraterrestrial society.”
The truth is that directed panspermia does not detract from Crick’s thinking at all. Quite the contrary, it reveals the powerful workings of a theoretical, incisive and restless mind, eager for rational answers, even unconventional ones. To understand how Crick came to the idea of panspermia, we must go back a few years. The son of shoemaker Weston Favell (Northampton, UK), Francis Harry Compton Crick (June 8, 1916 – July 28, 2004) reached the end of his childhood with the main aspects of his identity already defined: his penchant for science. As for the first, he chose physics.
Molecular biology might have lost one of its founding fathers had it not been for the war. Crick began his research at University College, London working on what he described as “the dullest problem imaginable” – measuring the viscosity of water at high pressure and temperature. With the outbreak of World War II, he was drafted into the army to work on the design of mines. After the end of the conflict, he discovered that his equipment had been destroyed by a bomb (in his autobiography he spoke of a “land mine”), which allowed him to leave this tedious research.
Crick then had to choose a new field of research, and that was when he discovered what he called the gossip test: “what you are really interested in is what you gossip about.” In his case it was “the borderline between the living and the nonliving, and the workings of the brain,” in a nutshell – biology, or, as a physicist – biophysics. He began working on the structure of proteins in the Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge, until he met an American named James Watson, twelve years younger than him but already with a PhD that Crick had not yet obtained for himself. Watson & Crick, and their DNA model in the Cavendish Laboratory (1953). Author: Antony Barrington Brown
The two researchers discovered that they shared a hypothesis. At that time it was believed that the seat of inheritance lay in proteins. Crick and Watson thought that genes resided in that unknown substance of the chromosomes, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). And that conviction, along with the participation of Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin, would give birth on February 28, 1953 to one of the greatest discoveries of twentieth century science, the double helix of DNA. The work was published in Nature on April 25 of that year. Crick would not obtain his PhD until the following year.
But although Crick is known primarily for being one of the founders of this milestone of molecular biology, the truth is that he himself laid the first rails of this new science. It was he who proposed that DNA was transcribed to RNA and that this was translated by means of adapter molecules in charge of converting the genetic code for proteins, the building blocks of life. And it was this “central dogma” of biology, as he himself baptized it, which led him to publish in 1973 his hypothesis of panspermia, by then such an elegant idea that it even counted astrophysicist Carl Sagan among its proponents.
Only years later would it be discovered that RNA can act by itself as an enzyme without the intervention of proteins, thus solving the problem that inspired panspermia. In 1993, Crick and Orgel published an article that no longer made any mention of an “extraterrestrial society”. (Who shook that out of them? Scientists have always been pressured to agree with the Government/Military/D.S. narrative)The chicken-and-egg problem “could be resolved if, early in the evolution of life, nucleic acids acted as catalysts,” they wrote.
By this time Crick had changed continents and fields of study; in 1976 he moved to the Salk Institute in La Jolla (California, USA) for a one year sabbatical that would end up lasting for almost three decades. It was there that he settled his unfinished business with the second of his gossips: the brain. For the rest of his career, and in collaboration with neuroscientist Christof Koch, at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), he devoted himself to trying to locate consciousness in the brain matter. “You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambition, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules,” he wrote in 1994.
He never managed to unravel the problem of consciousness, although he made significant advances in the knowledge of visual perception. In 2004, he lost his battle against colon cancer, but never lost the courage or the passion for the study of life. According to Christof Koch, “he was editing a manuscript on his death bed, a scientist until the bitter end.”
On February 28, 1953, Cambridge University scientists James D. Watson and Francis H.C. Crick announced that they have determined the double-helix structure of DNA, the molecule containing human genes. The molecular biologists were aided significantly by the work of another DNA researcher, Rosalind Franklin, although she is not included in the announcement, nor did she share the subsequent Nobel Prize award for it.
Though DNA—short for deoxyribonucleic acid—was discovered in 1869, its crucial role in determining genetic inheritance wasn’t demonstrated until 1943. In the early 1950s, Watson and Crick were only two of many scientists working on figuring out the structure of DNA. California chemist Linus Pauling suggested an incorrect model at the beginning of 1953, prompting Watson and Crick to try and beat Pauling at his own game.
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On the morning of February 28, they determined that the structure of DNA was a double-helix polymer, or a spiral of two DNA strands, each containing a long chain of monomer nucleotides, wound around each other. According to their findings, DNA replicated itself by separating into individual strands, each of which became the template for a new double helix. In his best-selling book, The Double Helix (1968), Watson later claimed that Crick announced the discovery by walking into the nearby Eagle Pub and blurting out that “we had found the secret of life.” The truth wasn’t that far off, as Watson and Crick had solved a fundamental mystery of science–how it was possible for genetic instructions to be held inside organisms and passed from generation to generation.
Watson and Crick’s solution was formally announced on April 25, 1953, following its publication in that month’s issue of Nature magazine. The article revolutionized the study of biology and medicine. Among the developments that followed directly from it were pre-natal screening for disease genes; genetically engineered foods; the ability to identify human remains; the rational design of treatments for diseases such as AIDS; and the accurate testing of physical evidence in order to convict or exonerate criminals.
Crick and Watson later had a falling-out over Watson’s book, which Crick felt misrepresented their collaboration and betrayed their friendship.
A larger controversy arose over the use Watson and Crick made of work done by another DNA researcher, Rosalind Franklin. Colleague Maurice Wilkins showed Watson and Crick Franklin’s X-ray photographic work to Watson just before he and Crick made their famous discovery. The imagery established that the DNA molecule existed in a helical conformation. When Crick and Watson won the Nobel Prize in 1962, they shared it with Wilkins. Franklin, who died in 1958 of ovarian cancer and was thus ineligible for the award, never learned of the role her photos played in the historic scientific breakthrough.
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