"Sirius Mystery" Author Claims Universe Is a Giant Living Alien Species

12/15/2022

Sirius Mystery author Robert Temple has a new book out, A New Science of Heaven, claiming that 99% of the universe is plasma and that plasma is a sentient form of extraterrestrial life.

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% 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. We may, in fact, have been looking for signs of extra-terrestrial life in the wrong place.

I am not familiar enough with cosmology, astronomy, and physics to evaluate these claims, but it doesn’t fill me with confidence that Coronet, his publisher, blurbed the book with quotes from a fashion designer and a professor who studies calligraphy and semiotics. Also—the 99% claim refers to the matter in the universe, not the physical space in the universe.

The press release accompanying the book alleges that this “living” plasma is conscious and implied that Temple likens it to a pantheistic God.

21 Comments

Billy esquire

12/15/2022 09:38:53 pm

Any Star Wars afficianados care to comment on this?

An Over-Educated Grunt

12/16/2022 09:17:57 pm

I'm thinking more Evangelion.

Rock Knocker

12/16/2022 07:05:17 am

According to several academic papers, including a definitive work published by the Royal Astronomical Society in 2018, the Kordylewski Clouds are not living “plasma” but instead are composed of the third state of matter - dust. It could be interesting to learn where the evidence for Mr. Temple’s claim can be found, but FWIW I won’t be purchasing his book to find out.

Jim

12/17/2022 01:00:41 pm

I wonder what part of the alien anatomy a black hole is ?

Bobby B

12/19/2022 12:33:33 am

Good one! Wish I’d thought of that.

Obi-Wan Kenobi

12/16/2022 08:16:37 am

May the force be with you.

Erratum

12/16/2022 09:48:50 am

This book was first published in 2018, and has not become available as audiobook

Paul

12/16/2022 10:47:31 pm

Apparently there are many who have a problem with the definition of science vs science fiction. And then those who wish to make a quick buck off that population.

Joseph Foresti

12/17/2022 12:32:49 pm

Do please buy a good vacuum cleaner. Thank you and best wishes for the Festive Season.

H. A. Smith

12/18/2022 08:06:57 am

One is reminded of astronomer Fred Hoyle's 1957 novel, The Black Cloud. Not having read Temple's book, I don't know whether Temple makes any mention of Hoyle's fiction. Of course, Hoyle sometimes put forward bizarre hypotheses in his scientific work as well as in his stories.

R.J. van Leuken

12/19/2022 01:26:35 pm

I checked the Wikipage about Hoyle's "The Black Cloud", and found this link:

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/9/8/263/meta

David Stewart

12/31/2022 07:21:58 pm

I never got the idea that plasma can be a living thing, as (like a gas) no structure can be sustained AFAIK. Not unless there is a lot of structured energy going in (like laser beams can create hot low density regions where the laser goes). But none of this seems to allow for the long-term stability of internal structures without external support.

Ok, I'm not a physicist, but an applied mathematician.

Charles Verrastro link

12/18/2022 05:31:39 pm

This is a very old view of celestial matter. The very basis of astrology & the frequent identification of gods as stars and planets, and the very sky itself as a living, creating Sky Mother.
Later ideas like the Akashic Record, Holographic Universe, and Morphic Resonance are of the same cloth. As above, so below.

Kent

12/25/2022 01:41:31 am

As Known Liar Anthony G./ Anthony Warren / any number of aliases says "It's all stars, man!" The power of his cellphone compels you. Not.

Kent

12/19/2022 04:43:54 pm

The "plasma theory of the universe" has been around for decades but this sentience business appears to be a new twist. As Uncle Ted says "Free speech lets you see who the stupid people are" and this guy sounds like an idiot.

I would say the same about "Dark Matter" and "Dark Energy". Hmm, observations don't match the model. No problem, we simply assume two new things. And here's the beauty part, we say right off the bat that they're undetectable!

I shall now repair to one our local drunkard's favorite watering holes, order a pitcher of phlogistontinis and regale the waitresses with tales of internet triumph. Chicks dig that.

Charles L. Verrastro link

1/1/2023 05:07:55 pm

The idea of a sentient matter is not inherently impossible. New Physics come perilously close with the idea of quantum entanglement. While they prefer seeing it as a mirroring or stabilizing phenomenon to provide some equilibrium in Space/Time there could be an internal logic, even a motive per say why this exists.
It is the same quandary Evolution & the Big Bang face. Why does matter form, organize & adapt in such a way to provide better ways to survive & integrate useful strategies to excel over competition? Even without positing a Divine Mover with a primal master plan there must be some mechanism in play that can be thought of as intelligence & intentionality.

Bobby B

1/4/2023 12:16:50 am

“Even without positing a Divine Mover with a primal master plan there must be some mechanism in play that can be thought of as intelligence & intentionality.”

In other words, God did it. Or ETs.

Why ‘must’ there be such a mechanism, and why do you believe it possesses intelligence and intentionality?

Charles Verrastro link

1/7/2023 02:10:31 pm

I don't 'believe' anything. I merely say what cosmologists and physicists are saying. If indeed there are myriad universes, other planes of existence present, past or future (or beyond time streams), then there may be realities that are in stasis or continually forming & collapsing mere microseconds apart.
Why then does ours expand in a seemingly ordered hierarchy of organization and function, the newest being Life itself developing new strategies to better survive.
It may all be mere clockwork built into the original seed design, or there could be a driving algorithm. You needn't think of it in terms of human or animal terms of will or intelligence, just a purposeful organizing principle.
Somewhat like Deists or Masons would call a Great Architect of the Universe, without conceiving of a God-like personage.

Kent link

1/4/2023 12:31:47 pm

"The idea of a sentient matter is not inherently impossible."

I've been having a problem recently with monkeys flying out of my butt. Who should I call?

You're making the "I don't know, therefore" argument. Dismissed.