(Bostick’s Plasmoids; Jan 24, 2008)
On December 12, 1956, the front page of the New York Times announced: "Physicist 'Creates' Universe in a Test Tube; Atom Gun Produces Galaxies and Gives Clues to Creation".
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Bostick’s Plasmoids
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Re: Bostick’s Plasmoids
One might also note that a link really could have been made to a prior TPOD entitled "Plasma Galaxies," which references more recent Particle-In-Cell simulations carried out at Los Alamos that directly mirror Bostick's work in simulating galaxy formation via interacting clouds of plasma.
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Left: Two plasmoids in a magnetic field producing similarities to the shape of barred spiral galaxies.
Right: Winston H. Bostick makes the news headlines in 1956.
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Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/S. Willner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
~Michael Gmirkin
"The purpose of science is to investigate the unexplained, not to explain the uninvestigated." ~Dr. Stephen Rorke
"For every PhD there is an equal and opposite PhD." ~Gibson's law
"For every PhD there is an equal and opposite PhD." ~Gibson's law
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