Intro To Different Types Of PlasmaFundamental Forces Of NatureUnity Consciousness #2223

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This is a quick look into plasma in general and specifically as one newest forms of matter remembered and called the fourth state of matter after solid, liquid and gas.

In General

1. In animals with blood, plasma is a yellow form of extracellular fluid but it is found within blood vessels but outside of red blood cells, white blood cells and platelet cells. Blood plasma is partially solid and partially liquid which gives it a sticky viscous consistency.

2. Cell membranes are also called plasma membranes. Plasma membranes are not made of plasma but instead are made of solids and liquids. Plasma membranes surround the cytoplasm and protoplasm. This is why cell membranes are also called plasma membranes.

3. Cytoplasm is all contents inside a cell, thus it contains liquids, solids and gas, thus cytoplasm is thicker than water. Cytoplasm does not contain plasma. The nucleus is not considered part of the cytoplasm for the weak reason that the nucleus contains its own type of fluid-called the nucleoplasm. The nucleus is not considered part of cytoplasm even though the nucleus is in the cytoplasm and other containers in the cytoplasm are considered part of cytoplasm and some of those containers also contain fluid such as mitochondria, endoplasmic reticulums, Golgi apparatuses, lysosomes (animals only) and vacuoles (plants only).

4. Protoplasm is the same as cytoplasm, except the plant nucleus is said to be part of protoplasm. Protoplasm does not contain plasma.

5. Bottom line: Is there a fundamental difference between plasm and plasma? I suspect not. Plasma has many forms, thus plasma and plasm are the same.

Defining Plasma As An Ionized Gas – The Fourth State Of Matter

There is solid, liquid, gas and ionized gas (plasma). An ion is an atom or molecule with a charge.

Plasma is created when a gas encounters enough energy to free electrons from atoms and allow the electrons to not reconnect to other atoms. Freely moving electrons can transport electric current and create magnetic fields, thus plasma is a conductor of electricity. The magnetic fields cause the moving plasma particles to travel in certain directions and in corkscrew-like spiraling paths.
Magnetic confinement keeps plasmas away from container walls because charged particles (electrons and ions) tend to follow magnetic field lines [power lines]. Plasma is bound to magnetic fields.

Where Is This Plasma?

Planets, such as Earth, are one of the few places that aren’t mostly plasma. This statement could be true since all celestial bodies are stars in different stages. Earth and other terrestrial planets are stars whose atoms are in a lower energy state, thus atoms are more stable.

Even though it is said that plasma makes up 99.9% of the Universe, it is also said that dark matter makes up 85% of the matter in the Universe. Thus we must conclude that all dark matter is plasma. This must be investigated because I have encountered many conflicting statements regarding percentages of dark matter, dark energy, plasma and ordinary matter.

See also Plasmas actually make up nearly 99 percent of the matter in the Universe.

Plasma exists on Earth in the extreme upper layers of Earth's atmosphere and in the magnetosphere that surrounds the atmosphere. The magnetosphere is full of plasma of many different temperatures and densities. Most of it can't be seen, even with telescopes.

The magnetosphere provides a barrier between Earth and particles continually given off in solar wind. There is also no reason to think that anything can pass through outer space without being affected by outer space. One example is when shorter wavelengths of sunlight, ranging from the ultraviolet to X-rays, ionize the Earth's upper atmosphere. Thus different wavelengths of sunlight represent different energy levels that are being used in processes along the path of sunlight which makes sunlight thankfully lose energy before it reaches Earth's surface.

The plasma environment around the Earth is a natural extension of Earth's atmosphere, ionized by the Sun.
Since conditions in space constantly vary and regions never have exact boundaries, the extent of the plasmasphere depends on conditions in outer space. High levels of activity in space erode the plasmasphere while low levels of activity allows the plasmasphere to build up again. The plasmasphere is the inner magnetosphere above the ionosphere It is a cold plasma region.

Transformations Of Matter

Solids - At low temperatures, relatively speaking, atoms bond tightly to form solids with a fixed shape and volume.
Liquid - At temperatures higher than those that allow solids to form, bonds between atoms are loosened which brings them into a liquid state with a fixed volume but not a fixed shape
Gas - At even higher temperatures, the bonds between atoms loosen further, turning substances into a gas with neither a fixed volume nor shape.
Ionized Gas (Plasma) - Extremely high temperatures cause electrons to detach from the nucleus and remain detached from any nucleus; this is the plasma state with no fixed volume or shape.

Plasma drifts and flows freely. If enclosed, plasma expands to fill the container. We can expect plasma to expand even more when the Solar System is in a warming trend moving from Galactic Winter to Galactic Spring. Thus then this portion of the universe is expanding due to temperature increases that cause particles to move more and create more pressure; however due to the inability of a heated boundary to maintain the same level of resistance, the next container expands.

Types Of Ionized Gas Plasma

Plasma seems to be about energy creation, energy conductivity and serve as a stage of atom breakdown and reformulation on a large scale as part of the particle cycle.

There are different types of plasmas based on temperature, degree of ionization, and density.

Hot & Cold Plasma - A plasma is sometimes referred to as being “hot” if it is nearly fully ionized, or “cold” if only a small fraction of the gas molecules are ionized. However, do not be misled by these terms. Even in cold plasma the electron temperature is still typically several thousand centigrades.

It turns out that a very low degree of ionization (cold plasma) is sufficient for a gas to exhibit electromagnetic properties and behave as a plasma. A gas can achieve an electrical conductivity of about half its potential at just 0.1% ionization. At 1% ionization conductivity nearly matches a fully ionized gas. Thus we must conclude that when a gas goes from 1% ionization to 100% ionization, there must be other significant benefits in doing so.

Transitions between degrees of ionization are often not continuous. When the input energy to the plasma increases gradually, the degree of ionization jumps suddenly from a fraction of 1 percent to full ionization. This indicates that all gas in a certain area will become ionized at the same time once the threshold temperature is reached. This indicates compartmentality exists somewhere that segregates gases and that energy input can occur to specific portions only.

Under certain conditions, the border between a fully ionized and a weakly ionized plasma is very sharp. This suggests there are simultaneous coexisting layers of plasma. Thus most layers of plasma are hybrids of ionized gas (plasma) and non-ionized gas (gas).

Solar wind from the sun is an example of a fully ionized plasma. Earth's ionosphere is an example of a partially ionized plasma (weakly ionized gas) whose degree of ionization is less than 1 percent. Even at this low level of ionization, partially ionized gases still exhibit most of the characteristics of fully ionized gases.

Cold plasma plays a dual role. It helps create an environment which allows for efficient conversion of energy and matter, and it provides a resonant plasmon particle to collect the energy of the converted dark matter.

Grainy Plasma - A comet and planetary rings are examples of grainy plasma that contains tiny particles suspended or levitated in the ionized gas. This might speak to how some objects are floated in space and how pyramids were constructed.

Colloidial Plasmas - may “condense” under certain conditions into liquid and crystalline states, while retaining their essential plasma properties. This “plasma condensation” therefore leads to new states of matter: “liquid plasma” and “crystal plasma.”

Active Plasma Regions - are small but carry field-aligned currents which give them filamentary or sheet structure. They transmit energy from one region to another and produce electric double layers which accelerate particles to high energies. Active plasma regions also transfer energy and produce sharp borders between different regions of passive plasmas. They are of decisive importance to the overall behavior of plasmas in space.

Passive Plasma Regions - may transmit different kinds of plasma waves and flow of high energy particles. There may be transient currents perpendicular to the magnetic field changing the state of motion of the plasma but not necessarily associated with strong electric fields and currents parallel to the magnetic field. Passive plasma regions fill most of space. This might be because their functions seem to include serving as a conduit, reservoir, coolant and motion moderator.