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I hope not, that radiation level would cook anything passing near it.
Originally posted by zorgon
Now suppose HAARP is using microwaves (a microwave oven used to be called a RADAR range) to generate plasma balls in the ionosphere for who only knows what reason
Originally posted by ArMaPI hope not, that radiation level would cook anything passing near it.
But if they are we just have to look for cooked birds falling from the sky.
Boffins simulate plasma-eating dusty 'life-forms' Dust to dust, etc
Physicists have discovered that charged particles of dust can form themselves into life-like structures that appear to be capable of reproducing and passing information along, behaviour reminiscent of life on Earth.
So, are there corkscrew-shaped dust-aliens floating about in interstellar space?
Gregor Morfill of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany is not prepared to go quite that far. He told New Scientist: "It has a lot of the hallmarks for how we define life at present, but we have not simulated life. To us, they're just a special form of plasma crystal."
However, Tsytovich is prepared to be a bit more flexible on his definition of what might constitute life, saying that the spirals "exhibit all the necessary properties to qualify them as candidates for inorganic living matter. They are autonomous, they reproduce, and they evolve".
Originally posted by poet1b
Thanks Armap, that would help. I keep looking for scientific articles that support the possibility that plasma life forms can exist.
Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) and the Far Infrared Absolute Spectrophotometer (FIRAS) have shown that the cosmic microwave background spectrum matches that of a blackbody of temperature 2.726ºK with a precision of ±0.03% of the peak intensity over a wavelength range 0.1 to 5mm
Recent measurements have shown a significant rise in the temperature by precisely 0.042K, a measurement which indirectly implies the existence of minute bacterial activity, possibly surrounding or living off the dark matter which makes up most of the Universe's mass.
These measurements have been further refined by a link-up between Radio Telescopes at the Bogong High Plains Observatory in Victoria and the radio telescope at Schlöss Rattshärz, Bavaria, the results of which are being analysed at the University of Bürgerweldt.
These two telescopes have combined to make a radiometric interferometer of unprecedented size and sensitivity and have produced data consistent with a finding that most of the missing mass of the Universe is made up by bacterial and other semicold plasma life forms in the voids between the stars and galaxies.
www.asnsw.com...
[edit on 7-10-2009 by zorgon]
According to dark plasma theory, (dark matter) bioplasma bodies are composed of a complex plasma of non-standard particles. Non-standard particles are particles that are outside the physicists' Standard Model and which are included in dark matter - matter which is six times more prevalent in the known universe than ordinary matter.
Bioplasma bodies composed of non-standard particles glow in the dark, radiate heat, light and other electromagnetic waves that can be measured by our scientific instruments like radar or even infra-red cameras when ordinary matter condenses around them. They also possess other properties associated with these types of bodies. The general characteristics of plasma life forms include the following:
- They emit light (not simply reflect them)
- They are thermochromic (i.e. they change colors at different temperatures)
- They generate colorful auras and halos as high energy particles collide with them.
- They are able to change their degree of opacity - becoming transparent or translucent. Hence, they can apparently materialize and dematerialize.
- They generate electromagnetic fields and radiate electromagnetic waves.
- They are responsive to electromagnetic fields and waves and can have an electrical feel when passing through our bodies.
- They have networks of filamentary currents within their bodies.
- Double helical currents, aligned with the longer axis of their bodies may be discerned.
- They possess rotating orifices that suck in and emit high energy particles.
- They can emit beams of high energy particles from these orifices.
- Their shapes can vary (hence they can shape-shift) but the most stable shape is the ball of light.
- Shapes between a spheroid and a cylinder, ovoid or lenticular are also possible as the plasma membrane is resilient and elastic and can be stretched by the denser matter inside.
- Just like amoeba they can generate temporary limbs (like pseudopods).
- Vortexes and misty irregularly formed primitive plasma life forms also exist.
- Within the ovoid is a denser body which varies from one plasma life form to another.
- A bi-layered plasma (Langmuir) sheath encloses the ovoid.
- They are able to pass through each other in the same way that objects composed of collisionless plasma or dark matter do.
- Very low rest mass.
Originally posted by poet1b
If our very souls are plasma life forms that live on after our physical bodies die, then where do we enter the plasma world food chain? or pecking order, as you will?
One of the aeonial beings who bears the name Sophia (“Wisdom”) is of great importance to the Gnostic world view. In the course of her journeyings, Sophia came to emanate from her own being a flawed consciousness, a being who became the creator of the material and psychic cosmos, all of which he created in the image of his own flaw. This being, unaware of his origins, imagined himself to be the ultimate and absolute God. Since he took the already existing divine essence and fashioned it into various forms, he is also called the Demiurgos or “half-maker” There is an authentic half, a true deific component within creation, but it is not recognized by the half-maker and by his cosmic minions, the Archons or “rulers”.
One of the aeonial beings who bears the name Sophia (“Wisdom”) is of great importance to the Gnostic world view. In the course of her journeyings, Sophia came to emanate from her own being a flawed consciousness, a being who became the creator of the material and psychic cosmos, all of which he created in the image of his own flaw. This being, unaware of his origins, imagined himself to be the ultimate and absolute God. Since he took the already existing divine essence and fashioned it into various forms, he is also called the Demiurgos or “half-maker” There is an authentic half, a true deific component within creation, but it is not recognized by the half-maker and by his cosmic minions, the Archons or “rulers”.
Although the TSS-1R mission was not completed as planned, the Italian satellite was
deployed to a distance of 19.7 km--making TSS-1R the largest man-made electrodynamic
structure ever placed in orbit. This deployment was sufficient to generate high voltages
across the tether and extract large currents from the ionosphere. These voltages and
currents, in turn, excited several space plasma phenomena and processes of interest. Active
tether science operations had begun at satellite fly-away and continued throughout the
deployment phase, which lasted more than 5 hours. As a result, a high-quality data set was
gathered and significant science activities had already been accomplished prior to the time
the tether broke.
are in fact living plasma creatures that inhabit our world, mainly the ionosphere of our planet
He doesn't think there are plasma life forms either, he just compares plasma to cell like structures when plasma is introduced into an electric current.
Gregor Morfill of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany is not prepared to go quite that far. He told New Scientist: "It has a lot of the hallmarks for how we define life at present, but we have not simulated life. To us, they're just a special form of plasma crystal."
However, Tsytovich is prepared to be a bit more flexible on his definition of what might constitute life, saying that the spirals "exhibit all the necessary properties to qualify them as candidates for inorganic living matter. They are autonomous, they reproduce, and they evolve".