Well... 1) The article that started this thread links to an abstract of a paper which claims to have pretty compelling evidence for a relationship between mico

Well... 1) The article that started this thread links to an abstract of a paper which claims to have pretty compelling evidence for a relationship between mico-organisms and connections, and appears in a pretty respectable journal. 2) The site you link to... how to put it kindly... reads like a bunch of cranks. Seriously, go poke around in there; they link the plasma-arc thing because it supports their "Electric Universe" ideas, and they use it as a vehicle to push that. And their link to the paper about it is 404, so I can't actually verify it, but it's a "presented at", not a "published in", which is a red flag.