The Mechanics of the Matrix

[Jeffrey]

A History of Prime Numbers

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=MsBUTuYI62k

[Jeffrey]

This is incredible, here is a plethora of educational links. Browse through them and you'll see why I'm so excited.

There are 120 FREE classes over 16 different categories from 16 different Universities at this link: https://www.coursera.org/

MIT, Harvard, and Berkley have gathered under the roof of edX to offer free courses too: https://www.edx.org/

Interactive examples and tutorials: http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/category/new

On http://www.lecturefox.com/ there is a wide range of free university lectures to browse.

There's www.udacity.com too.

Here's the website where I found all of this "educational freeware" and there's a lot more (different categories such as math, science, art, programming, etc) - http://www.educational-freeware.com/

Now this site is just plain fun: http://www.escapemotions.com/experiments.html

All very cool.

Here's one more VERY helpful website for math and science: http://www.hippocampus.org/

[Litenites]

Posted by Vivek (here)
I was thinking of the ego being the soul, and the soul being the same of the same type of energetic construct as an archetype, thought-form, etc..

The way it functions would be like a polarizing filter. Without it we would be able to experience and "see" the raw energy of existence, but we experience reality through the filter of the ego/soul complex.





So in the above image, the unpolarized light would be akin to the raw energy of pure existence and the linear polarizer (acting as the ego) would allow us to only view a sliver of it.

Now, the quarter wave plate is interesting as it slows down one aspect of the light in order to make it circularly polarized (can be left-handed or right-handed).

There could be a number of metaphorical filters that we have taken on that warp and retard our experience of consciousness.

Thanks Vivek for a very interesting post, especially the ego filter. It struck a chord in me because I have found that the bigger a persons ego is, the less receptive they are to accepting the explanation of alternate realities and views. I know it is a lot more complex than my quick analysis and factors such as professional indoctrination and education also can have an influence and most important, are they ready yet.

[Jeffrey]

Posted by Litenites (here)

Posted by Vivek (here)
I was thinking of the ego being the soul, and the soul being the same of the same type of energetic construct as an archetype, thought-form, etc..

The way it functions would be like a polarizing filter. Without it we would be able to experience and "see" the raw energy of existence, but we experience reality through the filter of the ego/soul complex.





So in the above image, the unpolarized light would be akin to the raw energy of pure existence and the linear polarizer (acting as the ego) would allow us to only view a sliver of it.

Now, the quarter wave plate is interesting as it slows down one aspect of the light in order to make it circularly polarized (can be left-handed or right-handed).

There could be a number of metaphorical filters that we have taken on that warp and retard our experience of consciousness.

Thanks Vivek for a very interesting post, especially the ego filter. It struck a chord in me because I have found that the bigger a persons ego is, the less receptive they are to accepting the explanation of alternate realities and views. I know it is a lot more complex than my quick analysis and factors such as professional indoctrination and education also can have an influence and most important, are they ready yet.

Hi, Litenites. Thank's for posting! You made me think of something.

There have been studies that have demonstrated the effects of L-Dopa on peoples pattern seeking ability and their ability to make abstract connections. Basically, participants of the study that were labelled "skeptical" became more "abstract-pattern seeking" when given L-Dopa. L-Dopa increases the level of the neurotransmitter - dopamine - in the brain. You can read more on that study here (it's very interesting): http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/...y-superstition

Now, an idea was explored here - https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post544607 - that described a means for the imagination to be, well, imaginative. One of the implications is that the micro crystals in the pineal gland have a "set" number of degrees of freedom based on the "liquidity" of the medium (unhindered this number would be practically infinite). The ability to process the information resulting from the different phase orientations of the crystals would be correlated to the number of pinealocytes in the gland (and probably the habitual neural pathways that are "carved" with time in other areas of the brain regarding cognition). Ideally, this number would be ridiculously high. The higher the number of degrees of freedom (of both ability of micro crystals to phase shift with electromagnetic fields and of the physical number pinealocytes - more importantly, their synaptic ribbon organelles, that can process the reconstructed information) the less "narrow-minded" one is. The degrees of freedom could be affected by calcification of the gland (this is called "brain sand"). The effects of limiting the phase shifts of the micro crystals would be akin to screen burn on a monitor.

There's also the weight of left-brain beliefs scaling against the challenges of the right-brain rebel. This video describes it well (I think it's in the second half): https://youtube.com/watch?v=VFsR_GCVT0k

Remember the dopamine? There are new studies that have uncovered the existence of dopamine receptors in the pineal gland, but this is linked to waking up in the morning by inhibiting melatonin binding to it's receptors.

Melatonin is also produced by the pineal gland, from the neurotransmitter serotonin. Some hallucinogenic drugs, such as LSD, molecularly resemble serotonin and effect the serotonin receptors.

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/1880

It's all interconnected and extremely cool.

Also, that picture that's with the post you quoted. In some 3d movies they use liquid crystal filters that rapidly shift phases between two orientations. One phase makes the light come out of the projector with left-handed circular polarization while the other phase makes the light project with a right-handed circular polarization. These phases shift very fast and the result is two slightly offset images on the screen, each with oppositely polarized light. When you wear the 3d glasses, one lens is polarized to only permit the "left-handed" (counterclockwise) picture and the other lens will only pick up the "right-handed" (clockwise) picture. This results in a 3d effect for the viewer.

[Jeffrey]

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[Jeffrey]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=VV-NB9FkMnw

Here's an excerpt from wikipedia:

The Local Bubble is a cavity in the interstellar medium (ISM) in the Orion Arm of the Milky Way which contains the Local Interstellar Cloud and G-cloud (as well as others). It is at least 300 light years across and has a neutral hydrogen density of about 0.05 atoms per cubic centimetre, or approximately one tenth of the average for the ISM in the Milky Way (0.5 atoms/cc), and one sixth of the "Local Fluff", or Local Interstellar Cloud (0.3 atoms/cc). The hot diffuse gas in the Local Bubble emits X-rays.

The very sparse, hot gas of the Local Bubble is the result of supernovae that exploded within the past ten to twenty million years. It was once thought that the most likely candidate for the remains of this supernova was Geminga ("Gemini gamma-ray source"), a pulsar in the constellation Gemini. More recently, however, it has been suggested that multiple supernovae in subgroup B1 of the Pleiades moving group were more likely responsible.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Bubble

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Interstellar_Cloud

Then there's this excerpt from NASA:

The solar system is passing through an interstellar cloud that physics says should not exist. In the Dec. 24th issue of Nature, a team of scientists reveal how NASA's Voyager spacecraft have solved the mystery.

"Using data from Voyager, we have discovered a strong magnetic field just outside the solar system," explains lead author Merav Opher, a NASA Heliophysics Guest Investigator from George Mason University. "This magnetic field holds the interstellar cloud together and solves the long-standing puzzle of how it can exist at all."

Full article: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news...23dec_voyager/

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Also, here's some important links on Plasma Oscillations and Landau Damping:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landau_damping

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_oscillation

[Jeffrey]

The Complexity and Chaos full audiobook.

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[Jeffrey]

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=1hIF36ty1Eo

Video Description from YouTube:

NASA's Fermi Gamma-Ray Telescope is finding hundreds of new objects at the very edge of the electromagnetic spectrum. Many of them have one thing in common: Astronomers have no idea what they are.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=2k-XgLi1KgA

Video Description from YouTube:

A NASA space telescope named "GALEX" has found stars forming in extreme galactic environments, places where researchers thought stars should not be. The finding could affect astronomy much as the discovery of microbial extremophiles affected biology in the 1970s.

[Jeffrey]

Some excerpts of interest:

... The physics of complex plasma systems containing a micro-particle component (dust) is a new and quickly emerging area at the frontier of physics and theoretical physics, plasma physics, solid-state physics, space physics and astrophysics.

... The complex plasma systems are highly capable for self-organization and can dynamically adjust their microscopic and global parameters through self-consistent nonlinear responses to changes in the external control parameters and/or plasma conditions (e.g., gas/plasma composition, pressure, or input power/ionization) or in the internal dust subsystem (e.g., the dust charge and/or size variation). The dust structures are often observed in laboratory experiments; they range widely in size, shape, order, symmetry and can represent different forms of self-organization such as clouds and voids, 3D and 2D crystalline lattices, strings, clusters, complex agglomerates.

... Complex plasma is a system where self-organization occurs in many ways. Complex plasma systems represent a unique mutual arrangement of two ensembles of charged species, namely an ionized gas (plasma) and a solid disperse phase (dust). Depending on the specific environment (for example, it can be space or laboratory plasmas) and prevailing conditions of the system, the two charged particle species can be arranged differently with respect to each other.

... In the micrometer size range, a large (a few thousand or ten thousand electron charges) electric charge accumulated by the dust particle favors the charge-induced self-organization of the plasma-dust system into strongly coupled dust particle structures – dust (or plasma crystals). The dust-plasma crystal formation is one of the most striking examples of the dust self-organization when micrometer-sized particles form regular arrays exhibiting various lattice-like structures.

... Dust structures in plasma are perfect examples of complex systems because of many various constituents, with the extensive and intensive interactions between them, as well as numerous space and time scales involved.

Wow! Here's another article on the subject: http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog...ife-forms.html

[Jeffrey]

Article From: http://science.howstuffworks.com/weird-life.htm

Are we looking for aliens in the wrong places?
by Jacob Silverman

Helix-shaped plasma crystals, which may be a form of so-called "weird life,"
could potentially be found in the rings of Saturn

The universe is filled with massive clouds of dust. From past studies, scientists have learned that this cosmic dust can, in the presence of plasma, creates formations known as plasma crystals. An international team of researchers published a study in the August 14, 2007, issue of the New Journal of Physics that indicates that these crystals may be more sophisticated than anyone realized. In simulations involving cosmic dust, the researchers witnessed the formation of plasma crystals displaying some of the elementary characteristics of life -- DNA-like structure, autonomous behavior, reproduction and evolution.

Before we get into how it works, let's talk about plasma. Plasma is the fourth state of matter. When gas is superheated, electrons are torn from atoms and become free floating. The gas then becomes ionized, carrying a positive charge. This superheated mix of ionized gas and free-floating electrons makes up plasma. Stars are mostly plasma, as is about 99 percent of the matter of the universe, though plasma is much less common on Earth, where we're used to dealing with solids, liquids and gases. Besides being found in stars and in our sun, plasma is transported by solar winds and magnetic fields, often coming into contact with dust clouds like those the researchers studied.

When plasma comes into contact with a dust cloud, dust particles gather an electric charge by sucking up electrons from the surrounding plasma. This core of electrons in turn pulls in positively charged ions, forming plasma crystals. In the scientists' simulations, which were performed on the International Space Station and in a zero-gravity environment at a German research facility, the plasma crystals sometimes developed into corkscrew shapes or even the double-helix shape of DNA. These helix-shaped crystals retain an electric charge and show what the researchers called a self-organizing ability.

In simulations, plasma
crystals sometimes assume
the double-helix
shape of DNA

Once in helix form, the crystals can reproduce by diving into two identical helixes, displaying "memory marks" on their structures [source: New Journal of Physics]. The diameter of the helixes varies throughout the structure and the arrangement of these various sections is replicated in other crystals, passing on what could be called a form of genetic code.
They even seem to evolve. The formations become sturdier over time as weaker structures break down and disappear.

The researchers want to test whether dust clouds in a non-simulated environment, such as those in Saturn's rings, form helixes and exhibit these behaviors. But the plasma crystals are fragile and difficult to test. They also require a consistent flow of plasma or else they "die."

If they exist in the simulated form, the researchers believe that the crystal organisms could be found in the rings of Uranus and Saturn, which are made up of small grains of ice.
So they form DNA-like shapes, reproduce, pass on their structure or genetic code, "eat" plasma, evolve and die. But are these supposed organisms a real life form?

Are plasma crystals alive?

In July 2007, a group of American scientists, in association with the National Research Council, issued a report recommending that scientists search for so-called weird life on other worlds, in space and even on Earth. Weird life is believed to be far different from life forms we're used to seeing. Weird life may be organisms that don't depend on water or that don't have DNA at all. Some people even believe that weird life existed on Earth in the ancient past and that it may still exist on this planet. In reality, scientists don't know what weird life is, but its presence has many reexamining notions of what alien life may be and where it might be found.

Whether or not the plasma crystals are an example of weird life is difficult to determine. Some of the questions regarding these potential organisms come back to the debate about what life is. For example, on Earth, we consider life to be carbon-based and dependent on the presence of water. Life forms also perform certain basic functions, like reproducing, evolving and metabolizing. But even using those functions as a classification can be tricky. David Grier, a physics professor at New York University, told New Scientist that "there is no mathematically rigorous definition of life," which makes it difficult to call these crystals "alive" [source: New Scientist Space].

Gregor Morfill, one of the experiment's participants, said that while the crystals contain a lot of the "hallmarks" of life, they're still "just a special form of plasma crystal" [source: New Scientist Space]. Another of the researchers, V.N. Tsytovich, said that the clusters have "all the necessary properties to qualify them as candidates for inorganic living matter" [source:Science Daily]. The researchers also stated that while they're not ready to confidently state that these structures represent a new form of life, their study should add to the discussion of how scientists define life [source: USA Today].

If the plasma crystals do exist in their simulated form, they live and develop at a pace at least a hundred thousand times slower than Earth's biological organisms. The question is then raised: given their fragility and slow pace of development, can they become intelligent or sentient?

If they are considered life, it may mean that these organisms are the most common life form in the universe, given the prevalence of plasma and massive interstellar dust clouds. There has also been some suggestion that these inorganic life forms somehow spurred development of organic life on Earth.

Source: http://science.howstuffworks.com/weird-life.htm

[Jeffrey]

Could alien life exist in the form of DNA-shaped dust?
by Stephen Battersby

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.

"This came as a bit of a surprise to us", says Gregor Morfill of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany. He and colleagues have built a computer simulation to model what happens to dust immersed in an ionised gas, or plasma.

The dust grains pick up a negative charge by absorbing electrons from the plasma and then this charged 'nucleus' attracts positive ions, which form a shell around it.

It was already known that this system can produce regular arrays of dust called plasma crystals, and some experiments have even generated spiral structures. Now, Morfill's simulation suggests that the dust should sometimes form double helixes.

Like DNA, the dust spirals can store information. They do so in the scaffolding of their bodies, as they have two stable states - one with a large diameter and the other with a small one - so a spiral could carry a series of wide and narrow sections.

The specific order of these sections can be copied from one dust spiral to another, like a genetic code. The researchers aren't sure how it happens, but they think each narrow section of spiral creates a permanent vortex of moving dust outside it. So if another spiral drifts alongside it, that vortex pinches the same length into its narrow state.

Genetic code

The spirals even feed, in a sense, as they need fresh plasma to survive and grow, suggesting they may compete with one another for food. Since they are also capable of passing on their genetic code, then perhaps they could evolve into more complex structures.

But that is very speculative, says Morfill, explaining that the simulation is far too simple to include such complex processes as evolution. "It has a lot of the hallmarks for how we define life at present, but we have not simulated life," Morfill told New Scientist. "To us, they're just a special form of plasma crystal."

"It's interesting," says astrobiologist Chris McKay of NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, US.

"Some people have argued that life is a self-organising system [that is out of equilibrium], but you could say that of a hurricane," he told New Scientist. "What these guys have done is one step up from pointing at a hurricane and saying it's a living organism. They argue there's a way this can store information, which is a central feature of life. But it's somewhat disappointing that this is only theoretical work."

"Claiming that something is (or is not) alive is almost pointless because there is no mathematically rigorous definition of life," agrees David Grier of New York University in New York City, US.

Life in Saturn's rings?

The team is now setting up an experiment to find out whether real dust spirals exist. It's tricky, because gravity will tend to disrupt the delicate dust structure, but they can get around that to some extent by compressing the dusty plasma, increasing electrical forces within it. To go much further, they will have to find another way to counteract gravity - perhaps by using magnetic fields, or by putting their experiment in free-fall on the International Space Station.

Alive or not, these dust structures could exist in nature. There are many places in space where small grains of material are immersed in a plasma.

"In our solar system, the places most likely to have the right conditions are planetary rings, especially the rings of Saturn and Uranus," says Morfill. There the "dust" would actually be fine ice grains, and the nourishing plasma would be supplied by the solar wind, channelled by planetary magnetic fields.

But Grier says the dusty spirals may be difficult to form in space, since they require grains of uniform shape and size: "I cannot imagine this will happen in space on a large enough scale to be observable."

If there are any ice-grain creatures roaming the rings of Saturn, though, the pace of life would be leisurely, because plasma-crystal processes run more than a hundred thousand times more slowly than the biochemistry of Earth. So even if they are alive, there's no need to worry about them possessing malign alien intelligence. They probably won't have had time to evolve very far.

Article Source: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12466

[Jeffrey]

[Jeffrey]

A Simple Tabletop Experiment Could Have Profound Implications for the Origin of Life



See also:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirality_(chemistry)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_...t_of_chirality

[Jeffrey]

The Crystals at the Center of the Earth
By Alexis Madrigal

Seismic waves traveling between Earth’s poles move faster than those moving east-west, and now scientists think they may know why.

The iron alloys in the solid inner core of the Earth appear to have crystallized in such a way that it’s easier for energy to pass on the north-south axis than on the east-west, as described in a new study led by Maurizio Mattesini, a geologist at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, which appeared in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

“The structure of the atoms looks different in one direction than the other,” explained Norm Sleep, a Stanford geologist who was not part of the new study,

In the textbooks of yore, the Earth’s inner regions like the mantle and core were presented as simple, fairly homogeneous regions. But the geology of the core is turning out to be much more complex as scientists make use of more and better seismographs to generate better data about how seismic waves travel through the planet.

The outer core is composed mostly of liquid iron. The inner core is solid ball about 750 miles in diameter, or a little less than the maximum width of the state of Texas, which formed as the Earth cooled over geologic time, said David Stephenson, a geologist at CalTech.

“The center of the earth is literally a crystal,” said Stephenson. Over time, it grew and now is no longer a single crystal but an aggregate of them.


In the mid-1990s, geologists began to notice an interesting thing. Seismic waves traveling north-south were reaching their destinations about 3 percent faster than waves moving along east-west paths.

“It’s one of these things that’s been detected for some time but kind of why it occurs has been somewhat of a puzzle,” Sleep said. They didn’t know why, but then again, the middle of the globe is perhaps the most difficult place to gather data on Earth.

The new paper suggests that as the crystals formed, they received a particular alignment. That alignment, known as anisotropy, makes it easier for waves to travel in one direction than the other.

The most significant thing about the new paper, Stephenson said, is that the researchers were able to match up the results that seismologists have been getting on the speed of seismic waves through the core with new laboratory tests with particular kinds of iron crystals.

Article Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/20...ls-earth-core/

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Okay, this is getting really cool.

Here are some ideas.

Mainstream science thinks that the core is made of iron. This is based on indirect measurements of different phenomena of earth regarding planet density, seismic activity, and the magnetic field. This makes sense within the framework of what science understands. There is a potential for new theories that might make sense later and would fit our observations better though. An example being the plasma universe. That's why I think science is so great, because of what we don't understand. There's so much room for growth and new scientific discoveries are made every day that challenge what we thought we new.

Okay, so get this. What if the core is not crystalline iron, but some other form of hyper-dense crystal. This would make sense considering the piezoelectric effect of many crystals. The pressure of the planet applies mechanical stress to the core. Now we have a charge. A big charge. The planet is rotating. Now, we have a moving charge which produces a magnetic field!

Moving the pieces of this thread around paints some awesome pictures regarding the interaction of light, crystals, plasma crystals, fractal structures of "higher" temperature superconductors, electromagnetic fields relating to consciousness, self-organizing structures, and complex systems. The concepts are incredible.

Just had another thought, what if the core was a giant, confined ball of plasma? This topic has been dismissed because seismic waves that pass through the center of the earth do not behave as if they have passed through a plasma.

BUT

Plasma crystals have been identified to be in a "solid" (or "dusty") form and a liquid form. So, what if the conditions at the center of the earth have allowed a hyper-dense conglomeration of these plasma crystals in "solid" state form surrounded by a liquid state? A possibility maybe?

[Jeffrey]

Posted by Vivek (here)
Just had another thought, what if the core was a giant, confined ball of plasma? This topic has been dismissed because seismic waves that pass through the center of the earth do not behave as if they have passed through a plasma.

BUT

Plasma crystals have been identified to be in a "solid" (or "dusty") form and a liquid form. So, what if the conditions at the center of the earth have allowed a hyper-dense conglomeration of these plasma crystals in "solid" state form surrounded by a liquid state? A possibility maybe?

Alright so let me play the role of the Credible Hulk here and follow up this idea with information that could potentially back this up.



Here's an excerpt from the Department of Physics and Astronomy the University of Iowa (emphasis added for information relevant to this specific post):

Dusty plasmas are ubiquitous in the universe; examples are proto-planetary and solar nebulae, molecular clouds, supernova explosions, interplanetary medium, circumsolar rings, and asteroids. Within the solar system there are the planetary rings, cometary tails and comae, and dust clouds on the moon.

Here's the full PDF -http://www.physics.uiowa.edu/~rmerli..._Primer_v3.pdf

Here's a basic illustration of the Nebular Hypothesis -



This next video illustrates the most popular theory of planet formation (nebular hypothesis).

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=dk-VIN8d_qU

In the video it says that planets form "from the leftover matter" of an exploding star. Well, that leftover matter happens to be dusty plasma.



Here's more on cosmic dust.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_...and_importance

And the behavior of micro crystals forming, self-organizing, and replicating in plasma is detailed in articles and PDFs throughout the thread.

So, could these plasma crystals - over a long period of time and in the right conditions - self organize and conglomerate into dense enough structures to attract more objects around them? After a time the objects coagulating around them would build up the pressure around the dense plasma crystal formation and have a piezoelectric effect giving the structure a positively charged "side" and a negatively charged "side". As it rotates it could generate a magnetic field.

Here's more on the Piezoelectric Effect: http://www.explainthatstuff.com/piezoelectricity.html

I'm going to keep reading and search for some material on plasma vortices, and noctilucent clouds too. Will post more later.

[Jeffrey]

You know what, I dig on the whole hollow earth theory, so rethinking the piezoelectric effect induced by gravity on the core structure I'm going to propose another possibility. The piezoelectric effect could be the result of centrifugal forces acting on the structure from it's own spin. Bam.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrifugal_force

That actually fits pretty well. The effect of equatorially stretching the "hyper dense plasma crystal structure" (have to think of a better name) at the core would produce a positive charge "facing north" and a negative charge "facing south" ... Or maybe it would make the regions around the equator one polarity and the polar regions would both be the same polarity (opposite of the equator).

That would make for some strange effects at the equator.

I just drew it out on paper, and I think the charges induced by this process would cause it to oscillate (and possibly wobble). I'm going to go do some digging.

EDIT: You know what if there were an electric field the crystal formation would oscillate with the frequency of the field. I think. I'm going to come back to this one in particular - moving on ... for now.

[Jeffrey]

Well, that was quick. I kept running into gyroscopes while searching for information.



Check out this video: http://videos.howstuffworks.com/hows...work-video.htm

There are devices called piezoelectric gyroscopes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibrati...tric_gyroscope

Still have to read more to see if it could tie in. If not, it's still really cool, especially how gyroscopes display "anti-gravity" properties while spinning.

[Jeffrey]

The following article was copied and pasted from http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/primer/lightning/ltg_tle.html

Transient Luminous Events

Large thunderstorms are capable of producing other kinds of electrical phenomena called transient luminous events (TLE's). The most common TLE's include red sprites, blue jets, and elves.

Red Sprites can appear directly above an active thunderstorm as a large but weak flash. They usually happen at the same time as powerful positive CG lightning strokes. They can extend up to 60 miles from the cloud top. Sprites are mostly red and usually last no more than a few seconds, and their shapes are described as resembling jellyfish, carrots, or columns. Because sprites are not very bright, they can only be seen at night. They are rarely seen with the human eye, so they are most often imaged with highly sensitive cameras.

Blue jets emerge from the top of the thundercloud, but are not directly associated with cloud-to-ground lighting. They extend up in narrow cones fanning out and disappearing at heights of 25-35 miles. Blue jets last a fraction of a second and have been witnessed by pilots.

Elves are rapidly expanding disk-shaped regions of glowing that can be up to 300 miles across. They last less than a thousandth of a second, and occur above areas of active cloud to ground lightning. Scientists believe elves result when an energetic electromagnetic pulse extends up into the ionosphere. Elves were discovered in 1992 by a low-light video camera on the Space Shuttle.



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Here is an article with more information about the Transient Luminous Event phenomena from National Geographic: Huge Mystery Flashes Seen In Outer Atmosphere



Next up - Noctilucent Clouds and Polar Mesospheric Summer Echoes.

[Jeffrey]

Excerpts from Wikipedia -

Polar mesospheric summer echoes

Polar mesospheric summer echoes (PMSE) is the phenomenon of anomalous radar echoes found between 80-90 km in altitude from May through early August in the Arctic, and from November through to February in the Antarctic. These strong radar echoes are associated with the extremely cold temperatures that occur above continental Antarctica during the summer. Rocket and radar measurements indicate that a partial reflection from a multitude of ion layers and constructive interference causes at least some of the PMSE.
Generally PMSE exhibits dramatic variations in height and intensity as well as large variations in Doppler shift. PMSE exhibit strong signal power enhancements of scattering cross section at VHF radar frequencies in the range 50 MHz to 250 MHz, at times even to over 1 GHz, that occur in summer at high latitudes.

PMSE occurs in both the Arctic and Antarctic regions, and is sometimes accompanied by noctilucent clouds.

Noctilucent cloud

Night clouds or noctilucent clouds are tenuous cloud-like phenomena that are the "ragged-edge" of a much brighter and pervasive polar cloud layer called polar mesospheric clouds in the upper atmosphere, visible in a deep twilight. They are made of crystals of water ice. Noctilucent roughly means night shining in Latin. They are most commonly observed in the summer months at latitudes between 50° and 70° north and south of the equator. They can only be observed when the Sun is below the horizon.

They are the highest clouds in the Earth's atmosphere, located in the mesosphere at altitudes of around 76 to 85 kilometres (47 to 53 mi). They are normally too faint to be seen, and are visible only when illuminated by sunlight from below the horizon while the lower layers of the atmosphere are in the Earth's shadow. Noctilucent clouds are not fully understood and are a recently-discovered meteorological phenomenon; there is no record of their observation before 1885.

Noctilucent clouds can form only under very restrictive conditions; their occurrence can be used as a sensitive guide to changes in the upper atmosphere. They are a relatively recent classification. The occurrence of noctilucent clouds appears to be increasing in frequency, brightness and extent. It is theorized that this increase is connected to climate change.

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Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=i9_8_2nL6Vo

These next two paragraphs where taken from this study - Dusty plasma in Earth’s mesosphere: formation and evolution of polar mesospheric clouds

One important feature of the polar ionosphere un- der summer conditions is the presence of dust layers (very thin on the atmospheric scale) located at alti- tudes of 80 to 85 km (noctilucent clouds, or NLC) or about 90 km (polar mesospheric summer echoes, or PMSE). NLC consist of submicron-sized parti- cles. They can be seen by the naked eye at sunset, whereas PMSE (apparently consisting of charged nanometer-sized particles) cannot be observed by optical methods and manifest themselves by strong radio reflections observed with radars at frequen- cies between 50 and 1000 MHz. In the literature, NLC and PMSE are frequently grouped together under the common term polar mesospheric clouds (PMC).

Interest to the description of dusty structures in the ionosphere has significantly increased since the 2000s owing to the development of the methods of investigation of dusty plasmas. Furthermore, the great interest to these structures is due to their possible connection with climate change and, in particular, with the Earth global warming process.

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So, now we have dusty plasma here, in our atmosphere. This is called dirty plasma. We know about dusty plasma crystals being able to self organize, replicate, and "survive". We know about the relationship between electromagnetic fields and consciousness. We know about complex systems theory. These are all ingredients for the big question. Is there another form of life living "on" earth in the upper reaches of our atmosphere? Ever heard of sky fish, or rods?

[Jeffrey]

I guess the follow up question to consider is: If this exotic form of life could hypothetically exist, would it be intelligent? Or would it be no more intelligent than any other animal (there are some pretty smart animals).

Check this theory out. There's a biophysicist named Dr. Levengood who studies the formation of crop circles.

Here is a synopsis of Plasma Vortex Theory copied and pasted from http://kentheberling.com/CropCircles...smavortex.html

Atmospheric-associated plasma formations may plausibly originate in regions where t here are clear indications of energy exchange between the ionosphere (60-100 km) and electrical storms in the upper atmosphere (Franz et al. 1990). Currently under consideration are ion plasma vortices which form in unstable regions and act as heat and angular momentum transporters. In fluid dynamics, gases, including air, are considered as having liquid properties (Prandtl and Tietjens 1957). In such a scheme the descent of a vortex through a liquid produces unstable secondary products which form complex, symmetrical patterns such as circles, rings, triangles, double lines and ovals with tubes or 'paths' extending from them (Levenoood 1958). In its descent to the crop surface the shaping of these features of vortex instability would be guided by variations in the Earth's magnetic field (Rossi and Jastrow 1961). At the crop surface the heat, ionization, associated electric fields and angular momentum would be transferred to the living plants. Taken as a whole, ionized air plasmas are electrically neutral, although internally, charge separation takes place and t hey can have high concentrations of positive ions and free electrons (Lehnert 1961), which in contact with plant tissue might produce transient heating and account for a number of the plant transformations.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=_L6xGfe_a1s

Orbs = balls of plasma?

Here's a link with more information on Dr. Levengood's research: http://www.ourstrangeplanet.com/the-...als/high-heat/

There's a book by Keven J. Anderson entitled, Hidden Empire. The concept is about exotic life forms (like the ideas discussed above) that never had a need to communicate with the "organics" as the humans are called in the series. Humans only discover these forms of life when they develop the technology to ignite gas-giant planets and turn them into stars. Basically, the humans became enough of a nuisance for the "alien/exotic" life forms environment that they had to step in and establish contact.