We are joining Substack.
Bringing a space for mountain science, stories, and the people behind our projects.
Honestly, we’ve been putting this off for a while.
Not because we didn’t want to do it, but because we weren’t sure we had the time to do it well. We’re a small team, and most of our energy goes into the actual work, drilling into permafrost in the Pyrenees, running educational sessions in schools, repairing eroded trails in different countries, and trying to make sense of what’s happening to the mountains we love.
But something kept nagging at us.
We have scientists sharing data that almost nobody reads outside academic circles. We have volunteers who spend weekends fixing trails and go home without anyone knowing they were there. We have Kilian crossing mountain ranges on foot and bike not just as an athlete, but as someone trying to understand what these landscapes are going through. And most of that story never makes it past a caption or a short post.
Instagram is great for reaching people fast. Reports are great for those who already know us. But neither is quite the right place to sit down and actually explain what’s going on.
So we’re here.
It gives us space to write longer without losing people, to share science without dumbing it down, and to be honest about the things that are hard. The slow progress, the funding gaps, the moments in a conference room when you realise how far we still have to go.
Just the people behind the projects, writing about what we’re learning, where we’re going, and why any of it matters.
Welcome.
We wish you all the best with your new Substack channel and look forward to following your work there.
I think I will enjoy your content, we are a also small independent research group . we are currently working on (osim forensic cosmology hypothesis v2.2): We tried to phrase this so everyone could get a visual of how it would work:Think of the universe not as a digital computer program, but as a giant, perennial tomato plant.
a tomato plant grows, produces fruit, dies back in the winter, and its seeds wait in the soil to sprout again. It does not need a programmer to tell it how to grow; it follows an internal, biological blueprint. Our independent research group is investigating whether the universe might follow a similar, naturally cyclical pattern.
Rather than a one-time Big Bang, recent discussions in the scientific community are exploring the Big Bounce an infinite, cyclical process. Our hypothesis suggests that instead of expanding forever, the universe might reach a limit, contract, and bounce back, with biological systems potentially acting as the most efficient way to store and reset information through each cycle.
A tomato plant does not stop at one fruit; it branches out, growing multiple stems, each producing its own fruit. If our universe follows this biological blueprint, it would not just seed our own galaxy. Instead, we may be looking at a system that grows fruit—galaxies—along every stem of the cosmic web. Each galaxy could be a localized site for life to bloom within the larger, cyclical structure.
Dark matter may act as the trellis for our cosmic tomato plant. It provides the gravitational structure that guides the growth of these stems, serving as a road map that ensures the system develops and resets in a way that allows life to re-emerge across the entire plant.
The Oklahoma Constant ($\Omega_{os}$) is the focal point of our research. We propose this constant as a way to measure Goldilocks Entropy—the narrow, stable energy range where life can persist without the system stagnating. It may be the tuning knob that explains why the universe stays just right for consciousness to emerge on every stem, cycle after cycle.
Because this model emphasizes biological efficiency, we suggest the possibility that we are the hardware, not the software. If this is a biological system, our consciousness and our physical form may be the fruit of this cosmic garden, essential to how the system functions.
We are currently tracking data from the Simons Observatory. They are looking for specific ripple patterns in the ancient light of the universe—echoes of a Big Bounce. If they find these signatures, it would provide evidence that our hypothesis is on the right track.
This is Forensic Cosmology. We are moving away from the who—a creator—and focusing on the how—the blueprint.
Our hypothesis is strictly falsifiable. If evidence confirms the universe will continue to expand indefinitely toward a Big Freeze, our Life-Raft model is incorrect. If a non-biological material is ever proven to exceed the efficiency of biological systems, the premise of the Oklahoma Constant ($\Omega_{os}$) fails.
We are not looking for a coder. We are documenting the physical fingerprints of a system that may be preserving life through an infinite, natural cycle. Note : if your familiar with the fruitfly brain map you will understand that we didn't have to program it to act as a fly should , we only needed to copy what biology already knew.
The universe operates like a perennial vine. It is a self-renewing, recurrent structure that does not end but simply resets its growth cycle.
THE VINE (Cyclic Structure): The universe functions as a self-renewing, recurrent structure that resets rather than ends. (Evidence: Observational data from the Simons Observatory on B-mode polarization patterns, consistent with "Big Bounce" cyclic models rather than singular expansion.)
CELLULAR REDUNDANCY (Biological-Style Organization): Patterns of complexity recur because they are the most thermodynamically efficient way to resist entropy. (Evidence: Research by Bozhi Tian on bioelectronic interfaces and Michael Levin’s work on planarian bioelectricity, showing that biological systems utilize endogenous electrical fields to maintain structural integrity against entropic decay.)
THE LOCAL CACHE (Participant Emergence): Consciousness is the physical storage layer for state-data, ensuring that the system’s organizational "memory" persists across the cycle. (Evidence: Integrated Information Theory (IIT) metrics and studies on non-algorithmic processing in micro-tubules, supporting the view that consciousness functions as an information-processing substrate rather than an incidental byproduct.)
THE OKLAHOMA CONSTANT (Ωos / Goldilocks Entropy): The universal "tuning knob" that maintains the narrow conditions required for sustained complexity and recursive state-persistence. (Evidence: Fine-tuning observations of fundamental constants—like the cosmological constant and dark energy density—which allow for long-term matter-energy stability.)
FRUITING (State-Persistence): The emergence of consciousness-bearing matter is not the goal of the universe, but the functional mechanism by which the system ensures its own continuity. Life acts as a dissipative structure, processing energy flow to maintain homeostasis within the larger, inevitable entropic flow. (Evidence: Thermodynamic studies on dissipative structures, which demonstrate that complex systems naturally emerge to maintain system stability and process energy efficiently.)