THE PEOPLE AND THE SCIENCE
This is a genuinely collaborative body of thinking — a shared effort to weave the work of many scientists into one coherent picture. Several of the formal papers behind it are still in progress. Out of respect for that work, these pages stay at the level of concepts and do not reproduce unpublished detail. What follows is offered with gratitude, and with credit given plainly.
THE COLLABORATION
Professor Barry W. Ninham — Australian National University, where he founded the department that became a world leader in colloid and surface science. Six decades of work on molecular forces and the physics of interfaces have earned him the field's highest honors — among them the Overbeek Gold Medal, colloid and interface science's premier award, and the Australian Academy of Science's Matthew Flinders Medal — and provide the interfacial and molecular-force physics that underlies much of this framework.
Professor Nikolai F. Bunkin — the experimental physics of water and its interfaces. His discovery of bubstons — stable, ion-stabilized nanobubbles of dissolved gas — and his Nafion experiments on deuterium-dependent interfacial structuring are foundational to the nanobubble and glycocalyx work throughout this framework.
Logan Duvall — Sowing Prosperity Institute, and host of the Sowing Prosperity podcast. The biological synthesis that ties the physics to physiology, including the field governor and the signals-and-receivers framework.
Martha Carlin — The BioCollective. A citizen scientist on a 24-year quest to understand Parkinson's disease, and the author of a newly published book on that work, Connected: Love, Loss, and the Unseen Forces Behind Chronic Disease.She brings the role of diet and the microbiome in health, insights into light, minerals, and their impact on well-being, and an understanding of how to restore balance in the body through lifestyle change.
Dr. Yuru Deng and colleagues — the structural imaging of cubic, bicontinuous membranes; and, through Dr. Angelina Angelova, an introduction to the wider literature on nonlamellar lipid phases.
Matt Battye — collaborator on the interfacial water and gas work.
Petra Davelaar, ND — the clinical naturopathic practice and the work on deuterium regulation through which these ideas meet patient care. Across the collaboration, she connects researchers and presses their work in new directions, asking the deeper questions a clinical perspective brings.
THE SCIENCE HONESTLY
We have no product to sell and no dogma to defend. The aim is to integrate and synthesize the work of these remarkable scientists — and many who came before them or collaborated — into a coherent whole, and to do it honestly, never dressing a hopeful idea in the language of established fact. Across these pages, every significant claim is held in its proper register: what is established, what is our interpretation, what is a proposed mechanism, and what is still frontier. (See [How We Label Certainty].)
This is how we honor both the science and you, the reader — read the bold ideas boldly, knowing at each step which kind of claim you are holding.