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>> We live in a fantastic world where curiosity

and perseverance are rewarded with knowledge and wisdom.

And for millennia, humanity has attempted

to correctly identify and describe

the true nature of reality.

One theory currently competing for preeminence in this quest

is the plasma universe model.

Plasma universe theory is an alternative cosmology

which posits that the dynamics of plasmas

play an important, if not dominant, role

in the fundamental physics of the universe, which

may be eternal and infinite, directly contradicting the Big

Bang model.

Does plasma play a more significant role

than is generally accepted?

And if so, will that lead to a unique understanding

of ourselves and our place in the universe?

>> We're aware of solid matter.

We're aware of liquids.

We're aware of gases.

But plasma is beyond that.

Plasma is the fourth state of matter.

And essentially what it is is if you take a gas

and fracture it through heat, it breaks up

the atoms that form the gas.

And when this happens, the electrons break free.

And when they break free, they start getting

excited and they emit photons.

These are small particles of light

which illuminate everything.

And as this happens, more and more electrons

break free of the atoms, bump into each other,

create almost like a chain reaction.

And as this occurs, they produce their own magnetic fields.

So in other words, they're getting bigger and bigger,

these seas of electrons, until eventually you can actually see

plasma as like a bowl of light.

>> The Northern Lights are a really good example of this

solar energy, this energy coming in from our sun,

which comes as these bursts of plasma energy.

And as that energy from our sun comes in,

and it hits the magnetic field of the earth,

it spirals it down through those magnetic lines.

And it shows up as these beautiful lights and colors

as different photons come off from that spiraling

motion of that plasma coming in around the magnetic field

lines.

>> In the plasma universe, deep space is permeated with giant

filaments of electrons and ions.

These filaments twist together in space

due to electromagnetic forces.

And some of their vast energy is then converted into matter.

And new galaxies are the eventual result.

The intricate spiral arms of galaxies

are said to reveal further interactions of the plasma

filaments.

>> The universe, we could say, is,

for all intents and purposes, plasma.

So plasma is a very interesting state of matter.

So basically we first realized matter clearly can be solid

and then clearly can be liquid.

These are two different phases of matter.

And then it can be a gas.

Later we discovered, OK, it can be a gas.

And then those are third state of matter.

And then eventually, we realize when

there's enough energy in a gas, it

becomes a different state of matter

that we call plasma, which is a gas that

has a lot of electrons in it.

And that's very energized.

And when it's in that state, it behaves

a little bit like a gas, a little bit like a fluid,

and a little bit like a solid.

It has all these different elements in it.

So it's its own state.

But in fact, the universe is made out of 99.999% plasma.

And the rest, that's not plasma, is basically

plasma that's cooled off.

And that's made things that are more like what we

call solids, fluids, and gases.

What we're discovering is that plasma has all kinds

of self-organizing behaviors.

It suggests that there is a information flow that's

going through the system so that the system will

tend to certain organizing principle.

For instance, we're discovering that vortices in the plasma

can organize to make very specific crystalline geometry.

And so that plasma can self-organize and create

very specific dynamics.

>> Self-organization is an example of the concept

of emergence, which occurs when an entity is observed to have

properties its parts do not have on their own,

properties or behaviors which emerge only when the parts

interact.

Self-organization occurs in many physical, chemical, biological,

robotic, and cognitive systems.

It is often triggered by seemingly random fluctuations

which can be conceptualized as islands of predictability

in a sea of chaotic unpredictability.

>> I love these images from the Hubble telescope that show us

how there's all this plasma and energy connecting from

different nebulae to galaxies and super clusters of galaxies.

And as you scan back and see the whole infrastructure,

that whole network, it is like an organism.

And it's all connected throughout the universe.

And the more we look at those images from Hubble,

it shows us how the similar images

that we see of that infrastructure

resembles the neurons in our brain.

It resembles the circulatory system and the blood flow

system, and all of this.

And the plasma that flows through our veins,

there's plasma flowing through the universe.

So it is, again, we are the reflection

of the whole macrocosm in us.

And maybe it's the other way around.

Maybe the macrocosm is a reflection of our form.

>> This state of energy, you got to ask where is it coming from?

It's one thing to say, oh, it all came out of a Big Bang.

Well the Big Bang was in a little point

of the Planck scale, right?

You got to ask, well, is there more

of this energy in the Planck scale everywhere?

And that's what we're discovering

is that actually the plasma we see in the universe

is actually coming from a deeper level or a finer

level of plasma that we could call the Planck plasma, which

is Planck particles oscillating like a plasma

but billions of times smaller than the atom.

Meaning that that grain resolution of the plasma,

the grain frequency of the plasma, is so small

and the frequency so high we can't tell it's there.

We're discovering it now.

And it's really a Planck plasma at the base

of the structure of space from which the more gross plasma,

the more larger grained plasma that

are made of protons, and electrons, and all this,

emerged from to produce our universe.

>> While debate on the validity and significance of the plasma

universe theory continues, some scientists like physicists Wal

Thornhill have developed distinct but complementary

theories which share some similarities with plasma

universe concepts.

Based on observation and experiment,

the electric universe model unifies

the nuclear forces, magnetism and gravity,

as manifestations of an electric force.

>> The standard model of cosmology is based on the idea

that gravity is the controlling force in the universe.

The electric universe takes a different view.

And that is it is the electric force and the electric force

alone which governs not only the universe, but also everything

within it, including us.

The electric universe has a different picture

of the connection between all things,

both at the biological level right down

to the subatomic, which is not recognized

by present-day science.

>> So the electric universe theory,

take for account the electric nature of plasma interaction

in our universe.

For instance, we know that there is

very strong electric filaments that

connect the earth and the sun that are constantly

transferring gigawatts of power in between planets and stars.

And this electrical nature of the plasma dynamics

and the plasma interaction between systems in our universe

is typically ignored by current cosmology.

So the electric universe cosmology

brings this forward as something fundamental and important

in understanding the dynamics of our universe and our world.

In itself as well have the possibility to birth

a whole new level of technology where

we're extracting energy or electricity literally

from our universe.

And so it has very important consequences for humanity.

>> Most people think of electricity as flowing through

wires into appliances and powering motors,

lighting the home.

In fact, it's used for almost everything in our daily lives.

But lightning is also a form of electric current in plasma.

And that type of behavior, of lightning, is the kind of thing

that we see in space.

That is a form of plasma which occurs in a more dense medium.

What happens is that the energy in that lightning bolt

is sufficient to strip the electrons off neutral atoms

so that they separate positive and negative charge.

Once you do that, you have a plasma.

In space when the space age began

it was discovered that space is full of plasma.

Somehow or another, the universe is

full of particles which have been

separated from their partners.

The electrons and the protons have separated.

Those particles are now being charged

subject to the action of magnetic fields.

And that means that their behavior

is quite different to that flowing in a wire.

>> Lightning is one of the most dramatic manifestations

of plasma.

Due to its free electrons, plasma

is a good conductor of electricity, much better

than copper, silver, or gold.

As a thunderstorm develops, negative charges

accumulate along the cloud base causing positive charges

to build up on the ground below.

The resulting electrical field between the two concentrations

becomes so strong that it ionizers the air.

This creates a conducting path of free electrons and ions,

a plasma through which the lightning discharges.

Fortunately for human beings and other living things,

plasmas are not routinely encountered

on the surface of the earth.

However, we do see natural plasmas

in the form of lightning, and auroras,

and man-made ones most commonly in the form

of fluorescent light bulbs.

Farther from the surface, the earth's magnetosphere

contains plasma, which is populated by particles

of the solar wind interacting with ones from the earth's

upper atmosphere.

If we look at these systems on a smaller scale,

does plasma manifest in other forms, perhaps even

as sentient life and impact our reality in other ways?

>> Some people have had these encounters with these beings

who maybe they look like-- some people describe it as a light

being.

Maybe they think, oh, it's an angel.

Some people think, oh no, this is an extraterrestrial, right?

There's these beings who can manifest and materialize to us.

And they will work with these higher frequency

forms of matter, whether it's light or plasma or just air

molecules.

And through their consciousness, they

will form and shape these interfaces to this density

so that we can perceive them in a way

that our senses can detect.

>> I think that all of this is a product of the communion,

the relationship, between us and this phenomena.

But it's not simply some kind of slave-like reaction

to our thoughts.

I think that the intelligences deliberately choose the form

that they want us to see them.

And it's reflective upon our beliefs.

It's reflective upon our religious ideas,

our cultural beliefs, and whatever is going on

at that exact moment.

I mean if we're in great fear, the chances

are we would see a demon or a devil.

And in the past, this is exactly what

happened because people would see these lights in the past

and they would suddenly find themselves encountering

fairies, and goblins, and devils, and things like this.

Clearly we've updated this today.

We expect to see extraterrestrials.

We expect to see aliens.

And in many cases, that's what we get.

So does that mean that there are no aliens out there?

Of course not.

We know that there are countless billions of stars out there

and many of those have life.

And some of that life may be incredibly intelligent,

developed civilizations and could

be millions, if not billions of years

older than that of our own.

>> I think it is totally possible that there are

intelligent entities that are comprised of plasma.

But the reason why that would be the case

is because they are somehow super advanced holograms.

And I'm not saying that that means that they're not real

or just man-made or something, I'm

just saying that like if they are made of plasma,

it's almost definitely because they're

part of some sort of projection rather

than it's some sort of physical biological substrate of theirs.

>> Is it possible that sentient life can exist within plasma?

Plasma itself is simply a state of matter.

On its own, it's not intelligent.

However, various scientific papers

have been written to suggest that it exists

within a four-dimensional state or perhaps even higher, five,

11, 22.

Who knows how many dimensions might be involved?

But because it is multidimensional in nature,

it allows consciousness that exists

on a multidimensional level to enter inside and animate it.

It can almost be described as like a glove

you would wear on your hand, for instance.

Before you put it on, it is simply

a piece of linen, or perhaps leather,

or some other material that is laying on a table.

But when you put your hand inside it

and start moving it around, it animates the glove.

It's as if the glove has come alive.

>> In 1923, a young engineer named Irving Langmuir,

who would go on to win the Nobel Prize in chemistry,

gave plasma its name.

He borrowed the term plasma from medicine,

because it exhibited the same unstable, almost lifelike

behavior of the ionized material with which he experimented.

>> As far back as the 1960s, the quantum physicist, David Bohm--

who was working with plasma, he was observing it and trying

to understand its process--

began to realize that the way that it moved, the way that it

acted, was very similar to the way

that the cells in a biological system actually worked.

And he began to conceive of the possibility

that it might actually be alive.

And the plasma itself is simply electrons.

So that's not the life itself.

But what he came to the conclusion

was that once I see if plasma existed,

that it formed a multidimensional doorway

into a deeper level of existence.

And that this allowed intelligences

that existed within this realm to manifest

into our own physical world.

And if this is the case, then what

is the relationship between us as biological life

and these plasma intelligences?

Is it possible that we also are animated

by some kind of primary source that

coexists with our bodily structure, with our blood,

with our flesh and animates us?

And the key is entanglement, quantum entanglement.

The psychic connection between us and the phenomenon itself.

And is it possible that this consciousness

is the root behind the concept of the soul or spirit?

>> Entanglement is the idea that particles,

when they're created, have twins.

And that these twins, no matter how far away

they get from each other, have an instantaneous connection

that is retained forever.

>> If you can imagine, therefore,

every particle has its twin and this dual relationship

instantaneously, then it becomes a likely theory for everything

from telepathy to mind over matter and even precognition,

because quantum entanglement exists outside of normal

space-time.

So it's not just happening in the here and the now,

it can happen within the past, the present, and the future

all at once.

>> When we interact with this phenomena,

is it possible that some of the particles within these plasma

intelligences are resonating with their own twin particles

within us?

>> This resonance, this harmony, this communication between us

and the phenomenon itself, it's a psychic experience.

It's one that we share with it.

It's a communion, if you like.

And through this, knowledge and information can be passed.

And it is my sense that this is something

that's been going on for not just thousands of years

but arguably for millions of years.

Since humanity first entered onto this planet,

we've had a relationship with these plasma intelligences.

And it could well be that they have

been guiding evolution itself.

And if we now switch to the idea of UFOs

and the observation of mysterious lights,

very often they are said to be sentient in nature,

that they appear to be alive.

>> In May 2006, the UK Ministry of Defence released

a previously classified, top secret report code-named

the Condign Project.

The 465-page report was a compilation

of UAP investigations conducted from 1997 through 2000.

The document concludes that the most compelling UAP

reports were caused by plasmas.

The report states, "The phenomena

can create radiation burn marks on witnesses

who get too close to the strong electromagnetic fields

associated with the plasmas, cause ground traces,

and produce a myriad of other strange effects."

The report goes on to say that plasmas

can take the shape of saucers.

They can have what appear to be searchlights beamed from them.

They're able to move at astonishing speeds

and can interact with observers.

>> Are UFOs plasma intelligences, plasma beings?

And the answer to that, I believe, is absolutely yes.

Why do I believe this?

Because many years ago, I came into the field of UFO research

believing that flying saucers, UFOs, were

nuts and bolts spacecraft.

But what I found is that many of the sincere witnesses

were also having psychic experiences in connection

with their sightings and encounters.

And I wondered how this was possible.

Because if you see an aircraft going over in the sky,

you don't have any psychic connection with it.

So why would you have a psychic connection

with a nuts and bolts spacecraft going through the heavens?

And the answer is, of course, you're

not dealing with nuts and bolts, in my opinion.

I think that many UFOs, not necessarily all of them,

are actually manifestations of plasma.

And plasma can come in various different ways.

It is not simply a small ball of light, but it can be huge.

It can be tens of feet across, perhaps even larger than that.

It can be solid.

It can be cold to the touch.

It can be hot to the touch.

It can come in the form of strange mists and fogs

that appear to be on fire.

>> Just because it doesn't have a carbon-based form of body

like we do doesn't mean that it's not just as intelligent

and just as evolved or on a process of evolution like we

are.

And in fact, some of them may be even more evolved and more

intelligent than we are.

But I don't want to diminish human either.

But to me, a human is not this body and this DNA form,

to me, human is our spirit.

It is our eternal being.

And it comes from so much farther

than what we experience here in our physical reality.

But as we start to, again, broaden our definition

of what is life, what is sentient, what is conscious,

what is evolved, we can start getting

beyond our very limited box of human social thinking

and start really perceiving the bigger

universe that is incredible.

>> If plasma does play a fundamental role

in the structure and function of our universe,

as well as our interaction and engagement with it,

what might the implications be for humanity if we accept

and integrate these concepts?

>> For the plasma universe theory to have a deep meaning

in the evolution of our world today,

it needs to be formalized in a deeper level.

It needs to be formalized in parallel

with a unified view of physics.

>> If the plasma theory was accurate,

what it would mean is that we would have to throw away

general relativity completely.

And we would certainly have to start

thinking more about this specific phase of matter

and why it's so fundamental about the universe compared

to the other states.

>> Science is not separate from the arts and our culture.

It is a part of it.

And therefore to form a real cosmology,

it must include everything.

And that means all of us.

We must understand ourselves before we

can understand the universe.

And at present, we've got it all backwards.

So the future of both mankind and to return science

to its origins, that is the classical approach where

all subjects were opened for discussion for all people

is the way ahead.

>> So what does the acceptance of the plasma universe idea

mean for the future of humanity?

I think the answer to that comes from the fact

that if plasma is a conduit that allows intelligences

from a deeper level of existence to coexist with us,

then communication should be our priority, because it will

move us forward in technology.

It will move us forward in our understanding

of our place in the cosmos.

It will lead us forward in the development of our own bodily

systems in medicine.

And it could even help us eventually get off this planet

and perhaps even become intelligent beings

without bodies ourselves.

>> When science can really come to accept this plasma universe

theory and work with it, well, number one,

I think that we're going to really shift our paradigm

to realizing that we are not this isolated little planet

in this isolated little solar system.

We are going to recognize that we

are part of a universal web, a universal organism,

that we are connected to.

We're just a cell in the body of that universe.

And yet through the plasma fields,

we are connected to the whole.

And we're a part of it.

And so we can start to coordinate and reach

much further than what we're currently reaching in terms

of our energy production, in terms of our communication,

in terms of our space travel.

When we can learn to surf those waves of the plasma

field and that network, we have huge possibilities

that start opening up to us and in so many ways with space

travel, with energy generation for our planet,

and with communication to distant galaxies, and so forth.

So it's a big paradigm shifter.

>> Is it possible that some of the light phenomena people see

in the skies are conscious life forms manifesting through

the medium of plasma?

If so, might they be expressing their sentience

through electromagnetic fields that transition

between the different phases of matter in ways we do

not yet understand?

Perhaps like sea creatures moving

through the ocean of space, they use plasma

as a way to communicate with us in our own density.

If the concepts promoted by plasma universe theory

do indeed paint a different picture of our existence,

perhaps this reimagining will help springboard humanity

into the next phase of our evolution and, quite possibly,

facilitate contact with intelligences

throughout the cosmos.

On the next episode of "Deep Space,"

we'll investigate the phenomenon of portals.