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An eventful series of papers on plasma physics were published out of Romania.
In this case, a study of ways in which plasma mimics the self-organization
and behaviors associated with living cells.
In June of 2002, over 500 academics assembled in Boston in the USA
for the 4th International Conference on Complex Systems.
Out of more than 200 papers presented there,
43 were chosen to be published in the conference proceedings.
Two of those were papers by these Romanian scientists,
discussing just how life-like formations of plasma state gases can seem.
Specifically, a Complex Space Charge Configuration (CSCC),
or as one article casually called it: a plasma blob.
Wallace Thornhill told me he prefers the term "anode tuft" as seen here.
The authors likened an anode tuft, or CSCC's electrical double layer,
to a cell membrane through which it acquires preferential matter to maintain its structure.
In this study (here are a couple of its team members)
they mention just how a CSCC will adjust itself to preserve cohesion
when the charge sustaining it drops below critical levels.
This plasma blob will also divide in two when current is sufficiently increased.
The research team pointed out that a CSCC
will make adjustments to its internal space charge configuration
and its self-regulatory behaviors
in order to preserve its structural cohesion in a changing temperature environment.
These spheres display an observable rhythmic and cyclic nature
to their self-regulatory physics,
which the researchers likened to inhalation and exhalation of organisms.
Here on the 5th page of this article
is a cool description of this effect in such plasma forms for any unfamiliar with it.
The authors also mentioned in this paper that a CSCC
can interact with similar plasma blobs.
Electromagnetic energy emitted by one CSCC in a steady state
is received by others through resonance absorption.
So, in light of these life-like traits,
the authors have presented at multiple science conferences
the idea that CSCC’s might be one starting point
for the eventual, increasingly complex in living forms.
They might arise at the striking point of lightning,
or move from one region to another colder region,
where new chemical synthesis is possible.
And into these chemical mixtures they bring with them likely
the first regulating membrane conceived on a planet.
As far as I understand their theory,
the CSCC would have transferred its spatial charge configuration
into future chemical forms, providing the gases and fluids of a planet
with this very consequential path of expression.
Whatever your beliefs about the beginnings of life on a planet,
formed by many thoughts and intuitions you've assessed over the years,
I hope this theory born of laboratory experiments
excites your imagination with some fraction of the intrigue
that the researchers themselves have felt.