ORRA / Science
Three layers that already work. One clock that does not exist yet.
Pulsed magnetic fields, red-light therapy and cold exposure each have their own devices, their own literature and their own believers. ORRA's bet is not that any one of them is undiscovered. It is that firing them together, on a shared clock, against a skin measurement taken a second earlier, is a different thing than firing them separately.
Layer one
Magnetic: a changing field induces a current
Faraday's law is not controversial. A magnetic field that changes over time induces an electromotive force in a conductor, proportional to how fast it changes. Nerve tissue conducts. Pulse a coil next to a nerve and you induce something in it.
Clinical transcranial magnetic stimulation uses this at Tesla-scale field strengths, from a machine the size of a filing cabinet, to fire cortical neurons directly. ORRA operates four orders of magnitude below that, in the range usually called PEMF, and does not claim to fire anything. The design intent is subtler: to bias the timing of channels that are already opening and closing, at the frequency of the mode.
The reason this can be done at low power is proximity. The Core rests on the palm; the target is 8 to 15 mm in. A machine that has to reach the motor cortex through a skull does not get to make that trade.
Layer two
Photonic: two wavelengths, chosen for one enzyme
Red at 660 nm and near-infrared at 810 nm are not decorative choices and they are not "healing light". They are the two absorption windows of cytochrome c oxidase, the terminal enzyme in the mitochondrial electron transport chain. Photobiomodulation is the study of what happens when you put photons at those wavelengths into that enzyme, and it has a real, contested, decades-long literature.
The practical difference between them is depth. Red is absorbed near the surface. Near-infrared penetrates further before it is scattered, which is why the Core runs 810 nm continuously in Flow, where the target is deeper, and 660 nm pulsed in Prime, where the target is the skin and the first millimetre under it.
Dose is the part most consumer devices get wrong, in both directions. The design figure is 50 mW/cm² at the contact face. Photobiological safety at that irradiance is one of the eight standards on the roadmap, and it is not a formality.
Layer three
Thermal: the one you feel immediately
The Peltier plate is the least exotic component in the device and the most convincing. A short, sharp drop to 10 degC at the palm is a strong sympathetic stimulus. Cold-sensitive channels in the skin open, and the systemic response to acute cold exposure is well described.
ORRA uses it as an event, not a therapy: three seconds, once, at the top of the Jolt sequence, timed to land inside the same window as the first magnetic pulse. Everything after that is warm or neutral.
Two hardware facts matter more than the effect. First, the plate is bipolar, so the same component gives the 35 degC warm face used in Prime. Second, the cut-off that stops it is a hardware watchdog outside the firmware. Software that can be updated should not be the only thing standing between a person's hand and a hot ceramic plate.
Everything in this section describes mechanisms that are established in the literature and a device that has never been built. The gap between those two sentences is the entire remaining risk in this product, and it is not closed by explaining the mechanisms more carefully.
The method we intend to use
Structure first, then frequency
The frequency set points on this site came from brainwave bands: delta for rest, beta for readiness, gamma for attention, and 7.83 Hz because it is the fundamental Schumann resonance. That is the conventional starting point and it is a weak one, because a brainwave band is a description of an EEG trace, not of a channel.
The better method, and the one this programme intends to run before frequencies are locked in firmware, starts from structure. Predicted structures now exist for essentially every human protein, including the voltage-gated sodium channels and the cold-sensitive TRP channels in palmar skin. From a structure you can model gating, and from gating you can ask which stimulus timing actually biases a channel, instead of assuming a number off an EEG chart is the right one.
That work has not been done. No simulation has been run for ORRA, by us or by anyone else. Any material that describes ORRA's frequencies as protein-derived today is describing the plan, not a result, and this page exists partly to say so plainly.
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