Contested Claim of Life-Like, Fourth-State Plasmas in Shuttle Observations: Credibility, Predatory-Journal Critiques, and Plasma-Physics Explanations
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A claim that kilometer-scale plasmas observed during NASA shuttle missions behave like multicellular life and could be a fourth state of matter is met with skepticism, with critics pointing to dubious authorship, predatory publishing, a lack of new experimental data, and alternative explanations from known plasma physics and ordinary observations like space junk or reflections.
