Wow, plasma above the ionosphere! REALLY?!?!?!?!?!?!
Stop the press, give this girl the Nobel prize ...
ehhh wait, we have been sending up plasma missions into the ionosphere and higher for decades.
I guess the main major item to get from
haig's post is that he finally is realizing that mainstream space physics has been doing plasma physics since the late 1950s or so.
Also, it is not "plasma tubes
floating above the Earth" it is magnetic flux tubes of the Earth's internal magnetic field above the ionosphere, which are expected to be filled with magnetospheric plasma. That they maybe can have density differences and be identified as separate entities would be interesting.
Here is the real scientific paper:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2015GL063699/full
Of course this has nothing to do with earthquakes.