There has been a relatively quiet revolution going on, most of which hasn't been revealed yet. Much less appeared on your Telly. This will change soon.
The thread title is a wink and a nod to two old Memes, both of which predate the Internet, but one hopes a few will smile when reading them.
Sometimes new information is slow to percolate, other times a NDA prevents anything from being said, and there is also the matter of wanting credit, where credit is not only due, but some serious money is involved.
But in the end, new data does make it to the masses, and even the most hardened cynic will embrace the paradigm shift. Even if they can't bring themselves to use the word "plasma".
The overwhelming facts have been arriving in such a stream of new knowledge about our wondrous Universe, nobody can really keep up, but the various discoveries and marvels that the Chandra Observatory have revealed are so revolutionary, so unexpected by the mainstream, there is almost a bit of Future Shock going on. Something. The words "baffled," "surprised", "shocked", "confused", "perplexed", even "mystified", have actually showed up in report after report.
Combined with other orbital platforms, and earth based observations and experiments, what we are seeing out there is wilder than even the woo cosmologist predicted. I get a great deal of enjoyment from this.
If it wasn't for the multiple threads and intense fighting over multiple threads and issues, right here in the Science sub forum, I wouldn't have noticed several things about it. Things that seem most odd. Even to me.
The most obvious is how often the word "Plasma" is avoided in mainstream publications, News stories, and even conversations between scientist. I don't know why, but after reading both sides of the furious debate for months now, it is starting to make sense. Somehow "Plasma" is a bad word for mainstream scientist. We can blame Plasma Cosmology for this. Or somebody.
The other far more strange matter, is the avoidance of the word "electric", in regards to all things in outer space. Magnetism is also an orphan child at times.
Even when the evidence is overwhelming, right in front of the collected scientific mind, none dare call it plasma. The number of terms used to replace "plasma" is nothing less than brilliance. Examples abound.
But enough of that, you have suffered enough. The revolution will be televised. In fact, it already has been, if you count video on the Internet.
Right now there are many many people working very hard on real TV shows, these huge HD productions, that are going to rock your world. Some of them may be just itching to tell you about it, but there are these annoying little Non-disclosure agreements, and often the coolest stuff you can imagine, it just can't be discussed in advance.
In a certain irony, some of us will be watching the plasma revolution, on a plasma screen TV. I get a fair bit of humor out of that.
I can tell you this. Almost everything we thought we knew about the Universe is changing. And plasma, as revealed by Chandra and other means, is the driving force, or event, or something. New words may have to be invented to describe some stuff. We definitely need a word to describe the "very hot ionized gas" we are finding all over the place. Maybe an acronym, VHIG, could be used, to save typing that out.
Is it huge? Is it worth a topic? Are the Plasma Universe people going to be doing little happy dances all over the planet?
Probably. But don't get smug you bastards. You don't know the half of it either.
Nobody does. Bottom line, there be plasma, and lots of it. Invisible energies, invisible fourth state matter, invisible before now that is. It is like we have been blind, but the eyes are opening. And what we see, is a revolution. Not the little kind, where you can cobble the new findings onto the old theories, the old views.
No, this one is like when the first man saw the moons of Jupiter, and knew something nobody else in the world did.
Right now, as you are reading this, people are looking at the Universe, and seeing things nobody has ever witnessed before. Things nobody had even imagined. (OK that may not be true, some of the plasma physics experts may have, but they don't count).
A few of the startling revelations.
Huge, and we are talking light years huge, huge currents of extremely energetic plasmas are flowing between stars. Or should that be, huge VHIGs have been found moving between stars?
Much much larger amounts of plasma connects almost every Galaxy we can observe. It's all over the place. And it is very very energetic.
Vast invisible plasmas are moving through what we thought was "empty space". Galaxies of Plasma. (OK, some people thought there was Dark Matter, but it looked empty, so I can call it empty space)
X-ray sources we thought were Black Holes or Quasars, are actually multiple sources, spread out and moving.
Magnetic fields are found that extend millions of light years. Tens of millions of light years.
Electromagnetic fields of almost unmeasurable strength are responsible for much of the visible and invisible light we can see.
Super dense, super hot (2 or 3 Million Kelvin) plasmas are being found. We just couldn't see them before. And they are flowing. Not static. They are like, right there, and nobody could see them. Plasma is all over the place!
And, perhaps the most surprising to me, plasma is capable of doing things nobody ever predicted.
And so much more. So much more.
No, I don't have to provide evidence. That is NASA and all those highly paid scientists job. I'm just enjoying the show.
The Revolution will be Televised!
(None dare call it Plasma)
OK I dared, but I'm not kidding, there really is some sort of Taboo against calling a Plasma a plasma.
The thread title is a wink and a nod to two old Memes, both of which predate the Internet, but one hopes a few will smile when reading them.
Sometimes new information is slow to percolate, other times a NDA prevents anything from being said, and there is also the matter of wanting credit, where credit is not only due, but some serious money is involved.
But in the end, new data does make it to the masses, and even the most hardened cynic will embrace the paradigm shift. Even if they can't bring themselves to use the word "plasma".
The overwhelming facts have been arriving in such a stream of new knowledge about our wondrous Universe, nobody can really keep up, but the various discoveries and marvels that the Chandra Observatory have revealed are so revolutionary, so unexpected by the mainstream, there is almost a bit of Future Shock going on. Something. The words "baffled," "surprised", "shocked", "confused", "perplexed", even "mystified", have actually showed up in report after report.
Combined with other orbital platforms, and earth based observations and experiments, what we are seeing out there is wilder than even the woo cosmologist predicted. I get a great deal of enjoyment from this.
If it wasn't for the multiple threads and intense fighting over multiple threads and issues, right here in the Science sub forum, I wouldn't have noticed several things about it. Things that seem most odd. Even to me.
The most obvious is how often the word "Plasma" is avoided in mainstream publications, News stories, and even conversations between scientist. I don't know why, but after reading both sides of the furious debate for months now, it is starting to make sense. Somehow "Plasma" is a bad word for mainstream scientist. We can blame Plasma Cosmology for this. Or somebody.
The other far more strange matter, is the avoidance of the word "electric", in regards to all things in outer space. Magnetism is also an orphan child at times.
Even when the evidence is overwhelming, right in front of the collected scientific mind, none dare call it plasma. The number of terms used to replace "plasma" is nothing less than brilliance. Examples abound.
But enough of that, you have suffered enough. The revolution will be televised. In fact, it already has been, if you count video on the Internet.
Right now there are many many people working very hard on real TV shows, these huge HD productions, that are going to rock your world. Some of them may be just itching to tell you about it, but there are these annoying little Non-disclosure agreements, and often the coolest stuff you can imagine, it just can't be discussed in advance.
In a certain irony, some of us will be watching the plasma revolution, on a plasma screen TV. I get a fair bit of humor out of that.
I can tell you this. Almost everything we thought we knew about the Universe is changing. And plasma, as revealed by Chandra and other means, is the driving force, or event, or something. New words may have to be invented to describe some stuff. We definitely need a word to describe the "very hot ionized gas" we are finding all over the place. Maybe an acronym, VHIG, could be used, to save typing that out.
Is it huge? Is it worth a topic? Are the Plasma Universe people going to be doing little happy dances all over the planet?
Probably. But don't get smug you bastards. You don't know the half of it either.
Nobody does. Bottom line, there be plasma, and lots of it. Invisible energies, invisible fourth state matter, invisible before now that is. It is like we have been blind, but the eyes are opening. And what we see, is a revolution. Not the little kind, where you can cobble the new findings onto the old theories, the old views.
No, this one is like when the first man saw the moons of Jupiter, and knew something nobody else in the world did.
Right now, as you are reading this, people are looking at the Universe, and seeing things nobody has ever witnessed before. Things nobody had even imagined. (OK that may not be true, some of the plasma physics experts may have, but they don't count).
A few of the startling revelations.
Huge, and we are talking light years huge, huge currents of extremely energetic plasmas are flowing between stars. Or should that be, huge VHIGs have been found moving between stars?
Much much larger amounts of plasma connects almost every Galaxy we can observe. It's all over the place. And it is very very energetic.
Vast invisible plasmas are moving through what we thought was "empty space". Galaxies of Plasma. (OK, some people thought there was Dark Matter, but it looked empty, so I can call it empty space)
X-ray sources we thought were Black Holes or Quasars, are actually multiple sources, spread out and moving.
Magnetic fields are found that extend millions of light years. Tens of millions of light years.
Electromagnetic fields of almost unmeasurable strength are responsible for much of the visible and invisible light we can see.
Super dense, super hot (2 or 3 Million Kelvin) plasmas are being found. We just couldn't see them before. And they are flowing. Not static. They are like, right there, and nobody could see them. Plasma is all over the place!
And, perhaps the most surprising to me, plasma is capable of doing things nobody ever predicted.
And so much more. So much more.
No, I don't have to provide evidence. That is NASA and all those highly paid scientists job. I'm just enjoying the show.
The Revolution will be Televised!
(None dare call it Plasma)
OK I dared, but I'm not kidding, there really is some sort of Taboo against calling a Plasma a plasma.
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I hope it is televised, its gonna be one hell of a show.
