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HOW IS TIME BUILT? Since the 19th century, light was known to be a wave of electric and magnetic fields. In the early 20th century, the physics revolution known as quantum mechanics included the alternative description of light as a collection of particles called photons. Roy Glauber of Harvard University realized that with the invention of the laser and the detectors capable of sensing a single photon, a complete quantum theory of light was needed. One single photon can control many atoms. His theory, published in 1963, explained that photons are not entirely independent objects and that detecting a photon from a light beam affects the probability of detecting another photon. His theory marked the birth of the field of quantum optics, which led to a wide range of advances, such as a type of optics-based cryptography that has already been used for some bank transactions. Glauber shared the 2005 Nobel Prize in physics for his work. My bet is that Glauber’s work will revolutionize neuroscience and medicine one day. Light and atoms are the fundamental building blocks life uses to organize.  Light and atomic interactions build biologic time. Society, like atoms, exist in an open system or field. A society like biology is designed to be far from equilibrium so it can harmonize with nature. Technology is uncoupling that relationship of how energy flows from an ecosystem to humans. How can any life form exist with all its complexity and richness? When you see your family at Christmas and on the fourth of July at a gathering you recognize them immediately. What is shocking is that modern science has proven that not one of the atoms on their face in December remains in place in July, but that level of change is not perceived or observed. Today, we can tag atoms with quantum dots, and show that every protein in the body turns over. What is a quantum dot?  It is a really small piece of matter that can change light’s color into any other color.  Light alters the small piece of matter by altering its size.  Size sets the color and color equals a frequency shift. Quantum dots have shown us some organs in the gut, like the liver, turn over several times in that 6 months. Living creatures retain their form and function in spite of this remarkable diversity found in atomic recycling. Modern doctrine in biology says that the chemical make up of tissues is directly correlated to physiologic function.  Biology today, fails to provide an explanation how a structural permanence persists while this massive change is ongoing. This points to life being organized in some way by a field of action to control atoms to do what they need to do for life to exist. Physics shows us that daylight can scatter atoms in us, and at night we can refocus those atoms back into the lattice to work with sunlight. Those slight changes in us are what science calls redox chemistry. Removing and adding electrons or light can alter the redo state of proteins.  Life is lived between those two states of existence. The maintenance of the size and shape of proteins and lipids within us is a function of the local redox potential of the atoms in that part of a cell.  This relationship determines how light can move in our cells. So does it follow, that technology might have the power to alter the relationships between light and atoms in us?  Might the light emitted by technology into our eyes and ionosphere be the key in uncoupling light from the atoms in nature that make us up?  Might this alone alter the quantum yield of sunlight?  People have been habitualized into believing all progress and technology has a positive connotation. Might this belief be obstructing the viewpoint of nature, in the game of life?  Can time be destroyed by technology in some small way to make big changes in us?