Bestselling author Robert Temple reveals the fascinating story of plasma and its revolutionary implications for the way we understand the universe and our place in it.
The study of plasma is unknown to the general public despite the fact that Nobel prize winners, senior academics and major research centres around the world have been devoted to it.
Plasma is the fourth state of matter and the other three - gas, liquid and solids - emerge out of plasma. This book will reveal how over 99 percent of the universe is made of plasma and how there are two gigantic clouds of plasma, called the Kordylewski Clouds, hovering between the Earth and the Moon, only recently discovered by astronomers in Hungary. Other revelations not previously known outside narrow academic disciplines include the evidence that in certain circumstances plasma exhibits features that suggest they may be in some sense alive: clouds of plasma have evolved double helixes, banks of cells and crystals, filaments and junctions which could control the flow of electric currents, thus generating an intelligence similar to machine intelligence. In fact, we may have been looking for signs of extraterrestrial life in the wrong place.
"A seminal work ... Will revolutionise how we frame reality and the thinking of everyone on this planet." - New Dawn
