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Could alien life exist in the form of dancing specks of dust? According to a new simulation, electrically charged dust can organise itself into DNA-like double helixes that behave in many ways like living organisms, reproducing and passing on information to one another.
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Great balls of lightning! Bizarre glow that has eluded scientists for centuries is captured on video for the first time
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So, could helical clusters formed from interstellar dust be somehow alive? "These complex, self-organized plasma structures exhibit all the necessary properties to qualify them as candidates for inorganic living matter," says Tsytovich, "they are autonomous, they reproduce and they evolve."
"Although many balls act dumb, others exhibit puzzling behavior that seems almost supernatural and quasi-intelligent. Some balls chase people across fields and up or down stairs. A few circle people, spiraling up from the knee level to the head and then dart out the nearest window or up a chimney, then explode.â Snigier, who wrote Ball Lightning under the pseudonym Paul Sagan, worked as an electrical engineer for Raytheon and Texas Instruments
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In a paper on arXiv.org, âA Conjecture Concerning Ball Lightningâ, Sturrock â one of the founders of the Society for Scientific Exploration â explains his thoughts:
(a) Since there is no known way for the required energy to be stored in the ball lightning, there must be a reservoir of energy remote from the ball lightning (presumably related to the electrical energy responsible for lightning).
(b) Since the reservoir is remote from the ball lightning, there must be some way to transfer energy from the reservoir to the ball lightning. We therefore conceive of a duct that connects the reservoir to the ball lightning.
(c) A ball lightning may now be regarded as a port through which energy in the duct can be released into the atmosphere.
These points, Sturrock says, âsuggest the following hypothesis: A ball lightning is a port connecting our overt space to a covert space with with similar but not identical properties."
HelixString Model for Turbulent Vorticity and Cavitation in Shearing Arc Plasma
ABSTRACT:Â This paper models turbulent vorticity in shearing plasma layers as strings of identical helix units smoothly joined at their junctions. We obtain helix strings tying loops, knots, links and braids on tetragonal and cubic lattices. In state diagrams for conduction electrons in cool, dense discharge plasma we find a subdomain for cavitation and curves with zero chemical potential for equilibrium of fermi and bose systems. We present a scaling cycle of vortex stretching, twisting, breaking and reconnection at high Reynolds number forming vortex lattices at arbitrary mesh refinement. Its exponential particle acceleration brings ion circulation energy within range of highâenergy events associated with lightning and ball lightning. This vortex plasma has a state equation with negative pressure for selfâconfinement. We argue that its energy surface in phase space favours selfâorganization. And we discuss vortex plasma with steadyâstate energy conversion by buoyancy in the nuclear fusion regime.
We study four dimensional gravity with a negative cosmological constant deformed by the Nieh-Yan torsional topological invariant with a spacetime-dependent coefficient. We find an exact solution of the Euclidean system, which we call the torsion vortex, having two asymptotic AdS4 regimes connected by a wormhole and supported by a pseudoscalar with a kink profile. We propose that the torsion vortex is the holographic dual of a three dimensional system that exhibits distinct parity breaking vacua. The torsion vortex represents a (holographic) `tunneling' between these distinct vacua. From a bulk point of view, we point out an intriguing identification of the parameters of the torsion vortex with those of an Abrikosov vortex in a Type I superconductor. Following the analogy, we find that external Kalb-Ramond flux then appears to support bubbles of flat spacetime within an asymptotically AdS geometry.
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We experimentally realize a simulation in which a charged quantum particle interacts with the knotted electromagnetic fields peculiar to a topological model of ball lightning. These phenomena are induced by precise spatiotemporal control of the spin field of an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate, simultaneously creating a Shankar skyrmionâa topological excitation that was theoretically predicted four decades ago but never before observed experimentally. Our results reveal the versatile capabilities of synthetic electromagnetism and provide the first experimental images of topological three-dimensional skyrmions in a quantum system.
I've seen these a few times. It does seem that the "object" itself is conscious rather than being a craft with a pilot.
originally posted by: primalfractal
In both past and present, many people report strange, perhaps intelligent actions, taken by unexplained glowing balls of light.
âUnbiased, disinterested physical scientists usually measure the properties of inanimate matter. Biological, medical, and behavioral scientists, on the other hand, study intelligences less than or equal to their own. In this Project, we dealt with an intelligence equal to or greater than that of man. We interacted with the phenomenon under study.â
~ Dr. Harley Rutledge, Chairman of the Physics Department, SE Missouri State University
Many years ago David Bohmâs first theoretical physics studies dealt with plasma. He discovered that plasma may behave as a highly cooperative structure, like if particles (ions and electrons) that are even very far away from each other are able to âfeelâ instantaneously what happens to one of them. This gives to plasma â at least qualitatively â a structure of coherence that is not dissimilar to the coherence found in quantum objects. Therefore the many particles composing plasma behave like if they were only one entity and not separated from each other, in such a way that any action done on a group of particles is just âfeltâ by another group of particles composing the same plasma agglomerate.
At this point it is not so difficult, at least qualitatively, to find a strict similarity between plasma particles and the microtubules inside brainâs neurons. The previously amply discussed âOrchOrâ Penrose-Hameroff theory about the brain states that microtubules and tubulins therein act like only one entity described by the same wave function. When â according to Penroseâs physics model â the wave function spontaneously collapses a moment of consciousness is generated, in such a way that an average human being is able to experience at least one million moments of consciousness daily.
We have said that what we consider as consciousness can be strictly related to the idea that we have of âspiritâ, in the ambit of a model (following also Bohmâs concepts about implicate and explicate orders) in which consciousness/spirit and its neural correlate (the brain) are strictly linked together in a way that the one cannot exist without the other.
originally posted by: primalfractal
I keep coming back to plasma vortices, ball lightening and "other" life đ
Some sort of microcosmic eternal return? đ
Idk, but I've spent a lot of time searching the topic over the years. Fascinated to say the least.
Decided to share the latest bunch of pages I've been looking at, hope someone may also enjoy them.
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Could alien life exist in the form of dancing specks of dust? According to a new simulation, electrically charged dust can organise itself into DNA-like double helixes that behave in many ways like living organisms, reproducing and passing on information to one another.
Is it alive?
Nevertheless, Tsytovich's colleague and study team member, Gregor Morfill of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany, is hesitant to call the plasma particles alive.
"Maybe it's a question of upbringing," Morfill said in a telephone interview. "I would hesitate to call it life. The reason why we published this paper is not because we wanted to suggest this could evolve into life, but because we wanted to start the discussion ... once more of what exactly do we mean by life."
"I think the F ring is Saturn's weirdest ring, and these latest Cassini results go to show how the F ring is even more dynamic than we ever thought," said Carl Murray, a Cassini imaging team member based at Queen Mary University of London, England. "These findings show us that the F ring region is like a bustling zoo of objects from a half mile [kilometer] in size to moons like Prometheus a hundred miles [kilometers] in size, creating a spectacular show."
Scientists have known that relatively large objects like Prometheus (as long as 92 miles, or 148 kilometers, across) can create channels, ripples and snowballs in the F ring. But scientists didn't know what happened to these snowballs after they were created, Murray said. Some were surely broken up by collisions or tidal forces in their orbit around Saturn, but now scientists have evidence that some of the smaller ones survive, and their differing orbits mean they go on to strike through the F ring on their own
originally posted by: buddha
Some chemicals in a river/sea are hit by lightening and make the start to life?
as you sugest the life may have already started in the lightening?
Hmm! lightening is Super Fast. Light speed?
who knows what it goes though.
it could evolve and even communicate with others?
originally posted by: ufoorbhunter
originally posted by: buddha
Some chemicals in a river/sea are hit by lightening and make the start to life?
as you sugest the life may have already started in the lightening?
Hmm! lightening is Super Fast. Light speed?
who knows what it goes though.
it could evolve and even communicate with others?
Being honest and realistic about ityou might well be onto something there. Ball lightning is no different in my eyes to the angels sent from thes heavens Very powerful forms indeed