Talk:Plasmoid

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Romanian scientist made dividing into two (multiplying) spherical plasmoids in argon low-temperature plasma.^[1]

I think this fact is notable to the article 'couse it was published in journal "Chaos, Solitons and Fractals". I don't quite understand what is so uncomprehensibу about it: there is spherical membrane of argon ions, when it being squeezed by electromagnetical plasma forces - it divides in two spheres. [1] Carn (talk) 12:29, 27 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

The abstract reads

Essentially based on nonlinear effects of quantum processes a self-organization scenario able to explain the emergence in laboratory of a complex gaseous space charge configuration displaying features like of a primitive organism is described. Possible also under primitive earth conditions the emergence of a similar complexity could be the prerequisite physical phenomenon needed for a further biochemical evolution. Governed by an intrinsic self-assembling mechanism involving local self-enhancement complemented by long-range inhibition, this scenario of self-organization offers a new insight into a phenomenology potentially able to explain the origin of life.

Since plasma/plasmoid is not mentioned in the abstract, I conclude that this paper does not deal primarily with the plasma phenomenon. The fact that it was published in (I assume) a peer-reviewed journal is not sufficient reason for inclusion in the article. Rather the concepts introduced must be cited by other authors, ideally in a review paper or text book. See WP:PSTS. Put another way, out of the thousands of papers published on plasmoids, why should this particular paper be one of the handful we mention in the article? --Art Carlson (talk) 13:37, 28 December 2008 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for finding this abstract!Carn (talk) 14:17, 28 December 2008 (UTC)Reply