Oct 8, 2026 · 39 min · 12 segments
The Kordylewski clouds, vast and enigmatic dust formations orbiting at the Earth-Moon Lagrange points, are not mere collections of particles but sentient entities. These clouds, suspended in a…
[singing] We grew up under the assumption that the universe is made up of atoms.
Well, it turns out that like many other solid facts in science that tend to break down over time, the universe is only about 1% atomic.
It is, loosely speaking, loose particles like charged protons and stray electrons, and it is pretty much everything, making our tangible earthly world quite literally the minority of reality overall.
Our biological senses, limited to what we have come to call the black cube, is set up to work with tangible atomic reality for survival here, making no surprise as to the origin of this mix-up.
We really have to get outside the box to imagine reality in this different way.
Finding this out, one is quick to assume that the plasma that makes up our unseen reality ain't doing much but hovering around lifeless.
Professor Robert Temple, along with many scientists currently catching up to the new findings, insists that ordering properties of charged subatomic particles is quite complex, so complex that it dwarfs the neural networks of a brain.
Seems unprecedented, but studies have been showing this for a long time now.
And just like any other result that would cause Rupert Sheldrake to do a graceful backflip, when we find consciousness outside of ourselves, we often become frightened.
Throwing out the scientific method, we say the process was flawed and shelf the findings.
A shelf just high enough off the ground that Robert Temple and others with a sharp eye for anomalies can reach up and rehash the shortcomings of the scientists who, shaken their boots whenever they find out something that the current textbook just won't fit.
Temple has an excellent way of breaking these things down for people like myself to be able to grasp.
I'll touch on many of these experiments as we go, but for the time allotted, I'd like to mostly focus on what this all means.
But basically, dusty self-organizing plasmas have been found in many labs to form dissipative structures, like the opposite of entropy.
Complex dusty plasmas will find each other, hold memory, reproduce, dance, look around, and even play pranks on some of the more unfortunate scientists who had to hide their very results.
That last one I'll try to get to today, but all of which together seem to put the last nail in the coffin of Nail's model of a mechanical universe, as well as open the floodgates to scientifically theological philosophy, if you can imagine those not being an oxymoron.
[singing] We grew up under the assumption that the universe is made up of atoms.
Well, it turns out that like many other solid facts in science that tend to break down over time, the universe is only about 1% atomic.
It is, loosely speaking, loose particles like charged protons and stray electrons, and it is pretty much everything, making our tangible earthly world quite literally the minority of reality overall.
Our biological senses, limited to what we have come to call the black cube, is set up to work with tangible atomic reality for survival here, making no surprise as to the origin of this mix-up.
We really have to get outside the box to imagine reality in this different way.
Finding this out, one is quick to assume that the plasma that makes up our unseen reality ain't doing much but hovering around lifeless.
Professor Robert Temple, along with many scientists currently catching up to the new findings, insists that ordering properties of charged subatomic particles is quite complex, so complex that it dwarfs the neural networks of a brain.
Seems unprecedented, but studies have been showing this for a long time now.
And just like any other result that would cause Rupert Sheldrake to do a graceful backflip, when we find consciousness outside of ourselves, we often become frightened.
Throwing out the scientific method, we say the process was flawed and shelf the findings.
A shelf just high enough off the ground that Robert Temple and others with a sharp eye for anomalies can reach up and rehash the shortcomings of the scientists who, shaken their boots whenever they find out something that the current textbook just won't fit.
Temple has an excellent way of breaking these things down for people like myself to be able to grasp.
I'll touch on many of these experiments as we go, but for the time allotted, I'd like to mostly focus on what this all means.
But basically, dusty self-organizing plasmas have been found in many labs to form dissipative structures, like the opposite of entropy.
Complex dusty plasmas will find each other, hold memory, reproduce, dance, look around, and even play pranks on some of the more unfortunate scientists who had to hide their very results.
That last one I'll try to get to today, but all of which together seem to put the last nail in the coffin of Nail's model of a mechanical universe, as well as open the floodgates to scientifically theological philosophy, if you can imagine those not being an oxymoron.
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