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#REDIRECT Plasma physics

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"plasma" for the state of matter: the article had both: * "(first used in 1928)" in the header list; and * "first applied to ionized gas by Dr. Irving Langmuir, an American chemist and physicist, in 1929." at the end. removed for now until someone can track down the correct date. -- User:Tarquin Can someone please explain how solar wind is a form of plasma? --User:Dgrant This article says that plasma is the most common form of matter because it makes up most of the visible universe, but some believe that most of the matter in the part of the universe we can see is not visible because it does produce its own light. So we really don't know how common it is, do we? what about quark-gluon plasma? in regular plasma, the atoms still have electrons orbiting in lower orbits, right? is there a state where it is just a soup of electrons and nuclei? is there a state where protons neutrons and electrons are all separate? - User:Omegatron 21:54, Apr 30, 2004 (UTC) I have a question - is metallic hydrogen a form of plasma? --User:FermatSim 17:42, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC) == plasma == Can plasma be in any other phase of matter? (like solid or gas) :It is a useful but in some cases arbitrary distinction to talk about phases of matter. It makes most sense when two phases exist in physical contact, like water vapor above liquid water. If you just have a sample of water, its phase is not well defined. You can manipulate the temperature and pressure so that it makes a transition from liquid to gas (unambiguously), loops around the critical point, and then makes ''another'' transition from liquid to gas. So should you call it a liquid or a gas in between? It is also disputed whether glass should be considered a solid or a liquid. :That said, the electrons in a (solid or liquid) conductor can behave like a plasma, and if a gas is 1% ionized it becomes a plasma with respect to its electrical properties, although its physical properties are hardly changed. :User:Art Carlson 11:26, 2004 Oct 22 (UTC)

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==Welcome== Hello, Wikipedia:Welcome to Wikipedia, by the way! You can sign your posts with the date and time using four tildes (~~~~)...this helps us keep track of discussions. I'd be happy to try to help if you've got any questions! User:Matt Crypto 14:18, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC) ==Kable v Director of Public Prosecutions for NSW== Hi there. Thanks for the feedback. Feel free to have a go if you want to expand the article; it's not something I am particularly attached to, but rather I was just trying to work out, over a beer after work today, whether the Kable principles would impose any restriction on Rob Hulls' current efforts to introduce temorary Justices of the Supreme Court of Victoria. So I came home and reread Kable, and concluded that it probably poses no obstacle. Checkout Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian law if you're interested in this kind of thing. I'm trying to find time to flesh out List of High Court of Australia cases, but it's a big ask. --User:SilasM 10:16, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC) :Ooh, quite an interesting question. I don't know, but personally I could definitely see Kable as being a potential grounds for blocking temporary Supreme Court justices. This is given that Kable basically says that the Act was invalid because of its supposed effects on the integrity, independence and impartiality of the court, which was incompatible with the Supreme Court's additional role as a Commonwealth court (at least that's what Gaudron, McHugh & Gummow thought, I'm just working from the headnote for the moment so no page references for now, though the other majority opinions aren't far off finding that). I think it would be very easy to argue that the tenure of judges being temporary could definitely have such an effect. :While I haven't read it all in a while, I have a niggling feeling that Cheatle v The Queen 177 CLR 541 would also strongly support this view, since if the High Court won't accept majority jury verdicts in state courts dealing with Commonwealth matters on indictment for constitutional and historical reasons, I think nearly identical reasoning could be used to find that to be a valid judicial decision for the purposes of the Commonwealth constitution you'd have to have life tenure for judicial officers, and Kable's reasoning could be used to extend this to all matters of the court. :I could definitely be wrong, but I think between Cheatle and Kable there's more than enough authority for the court to block temporary judicial appointments, and certainly more Authority than I feel the court actually had in deciding Kable, where the court basically overruled their own precedent in the BLF Case. Anyway, let me know what you think. User:Plasma 10:56, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC) ::I'm not sure about Cheatle v The Queen. I haven't read it in years, but I think that the comments in Kable v Director of Public Prosecutions for NSW are much more direct. I now revise my earlier view, and suspect that Kable v Director of Public Prosecutions for NSW offers a very respectable argument that Hulls' scheme is impermissible. I refer especially to 138 ALR 577 and the remarks of McHugh J at 622-4 (the State courts 'must be, and must be perceived to be, independent of the legislature and the executive'), and also, less directly, to Toohey J at 608, Gaudron J at 615, McHugh J at 618-9; 621-2, Gummow J at 641-4. --User:SilasM 00:05, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC) :::Yep, those are the exact points I was referring to as to the requirement that the judiciary be perceived as unaffected in its integrity, independence and impartiality, I simply didn't have the time to find the page references. I brought up Cheatle not because it was directly on-point, but it showed a precedent of finding that changes to key aspects of the judicial system (in Cheatle's case the use of majority verdicts in jury cases) would be found impermissible under the Commonwealth constitution. From that I would believe that the court would similarly find that the Commonwealth constitution would not permit temporary judicial appointments, then from that Kable would extend that federal principle to state matters. I know it's a somewhat indirect and convoluted path to the conclusion, but even Kable itself lies no less a convoluted basis, since the seperation of powers at the federal level only exists by implication. Anyway, I do agree Kable alone could be used as a more direct attack on the constitutionality of temporary judges, I merely added Cheatle as additional authority. User:Plasma 09:56, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC) ::::This has been a thorn in your saddle for some time? --User:SilasM 10:07, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC) ::::: Hehehe, yeah, I've always been a bit obsessed with Kable v DPP ever since I first ran into it. I've always just seen it as being a finding based on the undeniable tendency of judges to find in accordance with the interests of the judiciary regardless of the actual law. To be fair I've always been something of a believer in parliamentary supremacy, and Kable simply stands (in my view) as one of the most wishy-washy grounds for violating that principle yet. Anyway, I've ranted plenty for now :) User:Plasma 10:16, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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