'A New Science of Heaven'
by Robert Temple
Chapter 5: Great Balls of Fire
Excerpts have not been perfectly edited, and the greater context will be found by reading the book 📖.
“We have to stop thinking in terms of physically dense matter. As we will see shortly, semiconduction does not require physically dense substances like silicon and germanium microchips, and the transmission of current does not require wires of any kind!
Plasma equivalents of both semiconduction and wires are fundamental to complex plasmas, especially to plasma crystals. And it appears that some fireballs, or lightning balls, are indeed complex plasmas, and as we will see later, the ones that are of that kind can be full of internal ‘cells’, semiconductor regions, and filamentary current carriers galore. We have begun building the argument to show that internal structure self-organizes and ‘emerges’ from dusty complex plasmas, and some of the lightning balls are probably of that category of plasma.”
“Readers may wonder about what it means to call a plasma crystal a crystal. After all, we are used to holding gems and quartz and such things in our hands, turning them around, looking at them gleam, or wearing them in rings and bracelets, etc. What possible justification can there be for calling a cloud of plasma in space or a ball of plasma ‘crystalline’? Well, it is really a scientific convention, perhaps illuminated by words on ‘what is a crystal’ from an essay by Eugene Wigner, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1963:”
“...the constituents of a crystal (which for a plasma crystal means positively and negatively charged ions and particles) form a lattice. This means that the crystal has an ordered inner structure. As we will see later, this inner structure can be very useful in the storage of memory, computation and other faculties of intelligence.
And in space, plasma clouds that are crystalline are undoubtedly polycrystalline and consist of myriads of smaller crystals. If you or I were able to stand in space next to a plasma crystal we could only ‘see’ it if we had magic powers. Its constituent particles are far too small for the human eye to see, even with our microscopes. So there might appear to be nothing there.
“The gist of it is that free energy in the form of electrons that are bouncing around in a crystal will form complete spheres.”
“We have just seen Eugene Wigner’s helpful explanation of crystals that are not the solid objects with which we are all familiar. Plasma crystals are not solid and they are made of charged particles and ions, containing a crucial admixture of microscopic dust particles that make the crystalline structure possible. Most of them are invisible to our eyes and weigh essentially nothing.
As I explained early in this book, when I stressed that the Universe is made of 99.9 per cent plasma, so that solid dense matter is very rare and atypical, so I must now stress that it follows that plasma crystals are very common and pieces of quartz and gems are very rare. We must not take what is familiar to us in daily life as the basis for trying to understand the Universe, as that gives us a wholly distorted picture of reality.....”
“This has all kinds of implications. Plasma crystals are capable of being fantastically complex, and complex in an ordered and dynamic way needed for intelligence.”
“In Chapter 14 we bring all this together to summarize the arguments that complex plasma can be intelligent. We will see that intelligence of complex plasmas such as the Kordylewski Clouds may not be exactly like ours, and speculate that it may be more like the artificial intelligence and quantum computers now in development.
Then in the last section of the book, Chapters 15–17, we will look at the plasma inside our bodies and ask what the implications are. Is our own intelligence in some way dependent on this plasma?”
by Robert Temple
Chapter 5: Great Balls of Fire
Excerpts have not been perfectly edited, and the greater context will be found by reading the book 📖.
“We have to stop thinking in terms of physically dense matter. As we will see shortly, semiconduction does not require physically dense substances like silicon and germanium microchips, and the transmission of current does not require wires of any kind!
Plasma equivalents of both semiconduction and wires are fundamental to complex plasmas, especially to plasma crystals. And it appears that some fireballs, or lightning balls, are indeed complex plasmas, and as we will see later, the ones that are of that kind can be full of internal ‘cells’, semiconductor regions, and filamentary current carriers galore. We have begun building the argument to show that internal structure self-organizes and ‘emerges’ from dusty complex plasmas, and some of the lightning balls are probably of that category of plasma.”
“Readers may wonder about what it means to call a plasma crystal a crystal. After all, we are used to holding gems and quartz and such things in our hands, turning them around, looking at them gleam, or wearing them in rings and bracelets, etc. What possible justification can there be for calling a cloud of plasma in space or a ball of plasma ‘crystalline’? Well, it is really a scientific convention, perhaps illuminated by words on ‘what is a crystal’ from an essay by Eugene Wigner, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1963:”
“...the constituents of a crystal (which for a plasma crystal means positively and negatively charged ions and particles) form a lattice. This means that the crystal has an ordered inner structure. As we will see later, this inner structure can be very useful in the storage of memory, computation and other faculties of intelligence.
And in space, plasma clouds that are crystalline are undoubtedly polycrystalline and consist of myriads of smaller crystals. If you or I were able to stand in space next to a plasma crystal we could only ‘see’ it if we had magic powers. Its constituent particles are far too small for the human eye to see, even with our microscopes. So there might appear to be nothing there.
“The gist of it is that free energy in the form of electrons that are bouncing around in a crystal will form complete spheres.”
“We have just seen Eugene Wigner’s helpful explanation of crystals that are not the solid objects with which we are all familiar. Plasma crystals are not solid and they are made of charged particles and ions, containing a crucial admixture of microscopic dust particles that make the crystalline structure possible. Most of them are invisible to our eyes and weigh essentially nothing.
As I explained early in this book, when I stressed that the Universe is made of 99.9 per cent plasma, so that solid dense matter is very rare and atypical, so I must now stress that it follows that plasma crystals are very common and pieces of quartz and gems are very rare. We must not take what is familiar to us in daily life as the basis for trying to understand the Universe, as that gives us a wholly distorted picture of reality.....”
“This has all kinds of implications. Plasma crystals are capable of being fantastically complex, and complex in an ordered and dynamic way needed for intelligence.”
“In Chapter 14 we bring all this together to summarize the arguments that complex plasma can be intelligent. We will see that intelligence of complex plasmas such as the Kordylewski Clouds may not be exactly like ours, and speculate that it may be more like the artificial intelligence and quantum computers now in development.
Then in the last section of the book, Chapters 15–17, we will look at the plasma inside our bodies and ask what the implications are. Is our own intelligence in some way dependent on this plasma?”