Posted on 04/25/2016 8:48:38 PM PDT by nickcarraway
How does it mix with whiskey?
So inside our cell membranes, we have these water molecules that have six different positions at once? Is that what these people are saying.
These water molecules are busy, busy, busy!
Ice nine. We're doomed.
wow, two Kurt Vonnegut references in 24 hours...(8^D)
Very interesting. I was a ‘fresh out of college’ engineer in the ‘70s, and don’t recall hearing about poly water. The story reminds me a lot of the ‘global warming’ hype. Maybe that, too, will be a Wikipedia footnote in another half century.
I have read that fire is a form of plasma.
That is funny!
It’s all water under the bridge.
Or over the bridge.
Or through the bridge.
Interesting
No, I wasn’t even born in 1963... maybe it was a past life :)
I wasn’t really quoting anyone, just that stuff in quotes summarizes the “standard” interpretation of the old double slit experiment. There have been refinements on that experiment in the last few years that call that interpretation into serious question though.
Well, there are only a very few ways we know to produce light (photons). One of them is black body radiation, which is how incandescent light bulbs work. However, there is no filament or other similar body in the tube of a fluorescent bulb, so that method is ruled out. Another is combustion, but nothing in the fluorescent tube is burning, so that method is ruled out. Radioactive decay can also produce photons, but there is no significant amount of radioactive isotopes in a fluorescent bulb, so again, that is ruled out. Another method is stimulated emission, but that would require an already existing source of photons, which the fluorescent bulb lacks, so that must also be ruled out.
Which leaves (as far as I can think), only the method of plasma induced into the “glow discharge” state. All of the elements required for that ARE present in the fluorescent bulb, so it seems to me to be the only possible explanation for those bulbs which can’t be excluded.
I think it requires extremely low temperatures and not just a tight confinement of the water molecules, so this probably rarely occurs in nature.
You’re making sense. I may be on the way to a conversion.
Thanks, your explanation makes sense.
Really, considering the evidence, there is no reason to doubt that plasma exists. You might not agree that it qualifies as a “fourth state of matter”, but it certainly exists.
It is the scientifically accepted explanation.
Have you heard of a plasma torch? They also exist.
Long John Nebel. I had never heard of him. From his wikipedia page he sounds very interesting.
George Noory really does not float my boat.
He was late night radio in the early 60’s. I didn’t get to listen very often, but he was always there, especially with his UFO guests and assorted nuts.
So.... if you curl up into a fetal ball inside your sleeping bag while out camping in winter, are you doing so because you are thinking, or just simply responding to the environmental conditions ?
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