Mission Statement
Understanding the Role of Gravitation in Metabolism: Our goal is to produce an improved understanding of metabolism at the molecular level that includes the gravitational interaction. This is an extreme challenge because the modeling lies in the area where both the physics and biology are least understood. However, as NASA and private space companies such as Space-X plan to send humans into space for extended durations, it is essential that a better understanding of the role gravitational forces play in metabolic processes be developed. The pursuit of a more complete model of energy exchange when complex systems are organized by quantum tendencies - themselves bound within a gravitational environment - will lead to an improved understanding of how metabolic order evolved here on Earth, how metabolic disorder emerges within diseases, and insight into future physics.
HISTORY
The Copernican Project was begun in 2017 by a small group of Berkeley Alumni members with research backgrounds in physics & astronomy. After 5 years of research building up the theoretical and correlational arguments, we expanded our scientific reach through close collaboration with biologists and space scientists at institutions around the globe. We now have our sights set on an ambitious experimental program that will either demonstrate the existence of a bio-gravity coupling or establish improved constraints on gravity’s possible influence.
funding
The Copernican Project is managed by Copernican BioScience, Inc. - a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation currently funded
by a small private group of science-minded individuals from Silicon Valley and the Weeden Foundation of New York.
We are seeking additional similar minded scientists and investors to join our mission.
Contact: thorne@thecopernicanproject.org.
(See our funding page here.)