'A New Science of Heaven'
by Robert Temple
Chapter 11: Radiant Matter, Plasma and Plasmoids
Excerpts have not been perfectly edited, and the greater context will be found by reading the book 📖.
“A plasma is a distinct entity that has emerged from the great plasma soup, and a plasmoid is a type of plasma, which as we are about to see is often spherical or blob shaped, or sometimes shaped like a doughnut – and it also has strange properties.”
“… the plasma is emitted not as an amorphous blob, but in the form of a torus [the geometrical term for a doughnut shape] … We shall take the liberty of calling this toroidal structure a plasmoid, a word which means plasma-magnetic entity.”
“When four plasmoids were fired at each other, they spun into dramatic spiral shapes, of which Bostick published photographs. They seemed to him to be behaving as living entities. ‘In other words,’ he wrote, ‘we appear to be dealing with bodies which have strong powers of self-organization and preservation.’ He also described the plasmoids as being made of a ‘self-organizing putty’.
“Bostick became so excited by this that he also reverted to an earlier concern with galaxy formation, and wrote: ‘It is possible to apply the knowledge gained concerning the nature of plasmoids to a hypothesized process of galaxy formation …’
What Bostick is getting at here is that the behaviour of charged plasma and plasmoids may be similar at all scales of size, from these tiny plasmoids in his laboratory to the scale of entire galaxies in space.
Figure 21. Bostick’s photo, taken as a two-microsecond ‘snapshot’, showing what happened when he fired two plasmoids at each other. To his astonishment, they combined to form a ‘barred spiral’ shape resembling the well-known barred-spiral galaxies in space. As he wrote: ‘Occasionally two plasmoids crashing head on break into fragments, but even these fragments seem to behave as entities. In other words, we appear to be dealing with bodies which have strong powers of self-organization and preservation.’”
“So then they thought, as plasmoids bounce off one another, perhaps we can bounce one off a copper plate with no hole. What happened next was really disturbing. The plasmoid passed through the copper plate as if it were not there, a phenomenon we have already noted in relation to lightning balls – and ‘fermions’ on the quantum scale – and which is also similar to the behaviour of angels and other spiritual beings as reported in religious traditions....
“What is important for our argument here is that giant plasmoids from the Sun, given the complex behaviour that led Bostick to think of them as living entities, could easily be so intricate and complex in their structure that, in line with the discovery of the Kordylewski Clouds, they could even be intelligent or conscious entities. The implications of that would truly be limitless. Just imagine, for instance, that every plasmoid belched forth by the Sun and reaching the Earth or one of the Kordylewski Clouds could be in effect a program (in the sense of a computer program) and in that sense a communication of intelligence....
“In that scenario, the Sun could be controlling the Earth’s atmospheric phenomena directly when it wishes. Such plasmoids could also in principle contain information that receptive people could perceive indirectly as ‘inspiration’. The Sun could ‘talk to’ the Kordylewski Clouds, the planets, our higher atmosphere, and anyone else who is listening. SETI people should really look for coded information concealed in plasma bursts coming from the Sun. But before we can explain that, we need to know some more about the fundamentals of plasmoids, and their habit of emitting signals.”
by Robert Temple
Chapter 11: Radiant Matter, Plasma and Plasmoids
Excerpts have not been perfectly edited, and the greater context will be found by reading the book 📖.
“A plasma is a distinct entity that has emerged from the great plasma soup, and a plasmoid is a type of plasma, which as we are about to see is often spherical or blob shaped, or sometimes shaped like a doughnut – and it also has strange properties.”
“… the plasma is emitted not as an amorphous blob, but in the form of a torus [the geometrical term for a doughnut shape] … We shall take the liberty of calling this toroidal structure a plasmoid, a word which means plasma-magnetic entity.”
“When four plasmoids were fired at each other, they spun into dramatic spiral shapes, of which Bostick published photographs. They seemed to him to be behaving as living entities. ‘In other words,’ he wrote, ‘we appear to be dealing with bodies which have strong powers of self-organization and preservation.’ He also described the plasmoids as being made of a ‘self-organizing putty’.
“Bostick became so excited by this that he also reverted to an earlier concern with galaxy formation, and wrote: ‘It is possible to apply the knowledge gained concerning the nature of plasmoids to a hypothesized process of galaxy formation …’
What Bostick is getting at here is that the behaviour of charged plasma and plasmoids may be similar at all scales of size, from these tiny plasmoids in his laboratory to the scale of entire galaxies in space.
Figure 21. Bostick’s photo, taken as a two-microsecond ‘snapshot’, showing what happened when he fired two plasmoids at each other. To his astonishment, they combined to form a ‘barred spiral’ shape resembling the well-known barred-spiral galaxies in space. As he wrote: ‘Occasionally two plasmoids crashing head on break into fragments, but even these fragments seem to behave as entities. In other words, we appear to be dealing with bodies which have strong powers of self-organization and preservation.’”
“So then they thought, as plasmoids bounce off one another, perhaps we can bounce one off a copper plate with no hole. What happened next was really disturbing. The plasmoid passed through the copper plate as if it were not there, a phenomenon we have already noted in relation to lightning balls – and ‘fermions’ on the quantum scale – and which is also similar to the behaviour of angels and other spiritual beings as reported in religious traditions....
“What is important for our argument here is that giant plasmoids from the Sun, given the complex behaviour that led Bostick to think of them as living entities, could easily be so intricate and complex in their structure that, in line with the discovery of the Kordylewski Clouds, they could even be intelligent or conscious entities. The implications of that would truly be limitless. Just imagine, for instance, that every plasmoid belched forth by the Sun and reaching the Earth or one of the Kordylewski Clouds could be in effect a program (in the sense of a computer program) and in that sense a communication of intelligence....
“In that scenario, the Sun could be controlling the Earth’s atmospheric phenomena directly when it wishes. Such plasmoids could also in principle contain information that receptive people could perceive indirectly as ‘inspiration’. The Sun could ‘talk to’ the Kordylewski Clouds, the planets, our higher atmosphere, and anyone else who is listening. SETI people should really look for coded information concealed in plasma bursts coming from the Sun. But before we can explain that, we need to know some more about the fundamentals of plasmoids, and their habit of emitting signals.”