Johanna Blomqvist, Ph.D.

Physicist, Author & more▪️Books: 📚The Mystery of Water 📚Hyperreality 📚From Quantum Physics to Energy Healing

[Johanna Blomqvist, Ph.D. @TriJohanna]

Did you know NASA once sent moon jellyfish into space?

In 1991, on Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-40 mission), scientists launched 2,478 moon jellyfish polyps as part of a microgravity study. Their goal was to understand how the absence of gravity affects early development and gravity-sensing organs in simple organisms.

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[Johanna Blomqvist, Ph.D. @TriJohanna]

In my book The Mystery of Water I explore these kinds of questions — how water itself may hold keys to understanding life, consciousness and our own essence.

There are still so many open questions, even the water is a mystery for us. What do we really know about it?

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[Johanna Blomqvist, Ph.D. @TriJohanna]

Did you know NASA once sent moon jellyfish into space?

In 1991, on Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-40 mission), scientists launched 2,478 moon jellyfish polyps as part of a microgravity study. Their goal was to understand how the absence of gravity affects early development and gravity-sensing organs in simple organisms.

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[Johanna Blomqvist, Ph.D. @TriJohanna]

Jellyfish are amazing creatures: They are almost entirely (98%) water and have no heart or brain. How is it possible that they can still be living and responsive beings?

Water must play a crucial role in storing and transmitting information.

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[Johanna Blomqvist, Ph.D. @TriJohanna]

When the jellyfish returned to Earth, many showed clear abnormalities in their pulsing and swimming behaviour — almost like a form of “space vertigo”. Their gravity-sensing system had developed differently in microgravity.

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[Johanna Blomqvist, Ph.D. @TriJohanna]

The polyps were kept in containers of artificial seawater. During the 9-day flight they developed normally into young jellyfish (ephyrae) — and the population exploded to around 60,000 individuals in orbit.

This gave researchers information how life behaves when gravity is removed.

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Kai sullakin on oma ”alkulähde”? Vedellä on merkitystä! 🤩👍💧

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Leijonat kävi yöllä kylvettämässä MM-pokaalia ”taika­lähteellään” – paikallinen asukas kertoo Ylelle juhlinnasta aamuneljältä

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Roger Penrose, Nobel Prize-winning physicist and mathematician, explains why we should stop calling it AI and start calling it "artificial cleverness":

He believes the entire field is mislabelled, and the label itself is doing damage.

His objection is simple but cuts deep:

"The name is wrong. It's not artificial intelligence. It's not intelligence. Intelligence would involve consciousness. Well, if it's a machine, it's not conscious."

For Penrose, people have confused raw computing power with genuine understanding.

"People have lost the plot. They've lost it in the power of computing. The thing is that computers have got so powerful that they've lost the thread of what they're doing. But I think consciousness is something different. It's not computational."

He believes the term itself has hypnotized people into a category error:

"People are so hypnotized. The trouble is that AI is a bad term. It means artificial intelligence. Now intelligence in my view is conscious. That's what intelligence is about."

So he proposes a rename. Artificial Cleverness. AC instead of AI.

To illustrate the distinction, Penrose draws on his experience teaching mathematics:

"You have mathematics students. Some of them understand what they're doing. Some are just clever. They can repeat what they've learned. They know how to do it very cleverly. They can calculate very well, but they don't necessarily understand what they're doing."

That gap, between calculating well and actually understanding, is the gap Penrose sees between today's machines and genuine intelligence.

Cleverness can be manufactured. Consciousness, in his view, cannot.

So the question worth sitting with: when we call a system "intelligent," are we describing what it does, or quietly assuming something about what it is?

[Johanna Blomqvist, Ph.D. @TriJohanna]

Jep. Täällä eräs joka 2008 kävi polvikierukan osaleikkauksessa lääkärin suosituksesta. Viime syksynä selvisi että nykyinen polvivaiva on todennäköisesti leikkauksen syytä. https://t.co/4gjWKOyWWY

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Physicists Discover the Most Complex Forms of Ice Yet https://t.co/HGiggvGlyS via @QuantaMagazine

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"String theory is not dead; it's undead and now walks around like a zombie eating people's brains.”

[Sabine Hossenfelder @skdh]

String theory didn't just fail, it's far worse.

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@SDDonovan I prefer mornings, but sometimes the ideas start flowing at night, and I have to write.

[NASA @NASA]

As communities gather this weekend, @AstroVicGlover reflects on the shared spaceship we all call home: Earth.

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For the first time in 50 years, @NASA is sending astronauts around the Moon. Set for launch TODAY, the 10-day Artemis II mission is the first crewed test flight of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, Orion Integrity spacecraft, and ground systems needed for long-term exploration of the Moon and future human missions to Mars. Full live coverage: https://t.co/waZv4oNPPO

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A good interview. Rereleased by New Thinking Allowed.

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Happy International WomensDay! Let's celebrate the trailblazing genius who shattered barriers and redefined scientific achievement: Marie Skłodowska Curie.She remains the first woman ever awarded a Nobel Prize, the first person to win two Nobel Prizes—and, to this day, the only individual to claim Nobels in two different scientific fields

Born in Warsaw in 1867 under Russian rule, Marie overcame immense obstacles—poverty, gender discrimination, and a lack of educational opportunities for women in her homeland—to become one of the most influential scientists in history.Her groundbreaking work began with the mysterious "rays" emitted by uranium, discovered by Henri Becquerel. Teaming up with her husband Pierre Curie, she coined the term "radioactivity" and tirelessly isolated two new elements from pitchblende ore: polonium (named after her native Poland) in 1898, followed by radium.

In 1903, Marie, Pierre, and Becquerel shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for their pioneering research on radioactivity—making Marie the first woman Nobel laureate.Tragically, Pierre died in 1906, but Marie pressed on. She became the first woman to teach at the Sorbonne and, in 1910, isolated pure radium metal—proving its existence definitively.

Her perseverance earned her a second Nobel—the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry—solely for discovering polonium and radium, and studying radium's remarkable properties.Beyond pure discovery, Marie's work revolutionized medicine: she pioneered mobile X-ray units ("Little Curies") during World War I to diagnose wounded soldiers, and her research laid the foundation for modern radiation therapy in cancer treatment.

Marie Curie died in 1934 from aplastic anemia linked to prolonged radiation exposure—yet her legacy endures as a symbol of dedication, courage, and unbreakable curiosity.She didn't just change science; she opened doors for generations of women in https://t.co/VOIibtl2YN's to Marie Skłodowska Curie—the woman who glowed with brilliance and illuminated the path forward!

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Rehtorin mukaan lumi saa nuoret helposti innostumaan ja se jos mikä ei varmasti ole hyvästä. Onneksi kaikkia lumileikkejä ja lumihenkilöiden tekoa ei kielletty… Ööö… lumihenkilöiden 😳 https://t.co/zvqiiUoDNB