This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Christine employs Interactive experiments with the audience to explain the fourth state of matter, Plasma. This talk provides a new perspective on high technology and the importance of plasma in iPhone, digital cameras, GPS, satellites, space travel...

Christine Charles is a rocket scientist and head of her own laboratory at the Australian National University.

Christine has invented a new space engine which she and her students are developing with support from the Australian Government along with European and American aerospace companies. She transforms the music of the spheres into keyboard jazz with her group, Harmonic Propulsion, that performs around Canberra.

To keep up her strength she canoes down long rivers, cycles and bushwalks.

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